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The Difference Between IaaS, Paas, and SaaS

An ever-increasing number of organizations are working in the cloud. It depends on their business model what cloud delivery model they use. The three most common deployment models for cloud services are software-as-a-service (SaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). Here, we explain the differences between these cloud delivery models and what you need to consider when choosing the right model for your organization.

A Decade of DevOps Design Patterns for Future Proofing your DevOps Strategy

It’s been more than a decade since the term “DevOps” was coined. Since then, DevOps has evolved, with more tools, technologies and processes to enable unparalleled digital transformation. The next decade and beyond promise even more innovation as DevOps becomes even more ingrained in the software delivery life cycle. But what’s next? And how can organisations prepare?

Demystifying CI/CD - Beyond the hype into reality

Are you taking advantage of the best practices and tools available to ensure the security and reliability of your software development and deployment in the cloud? Join Kelsey Hightower (Google Cloud) and Melissa McKay (JFrog) to discover the strategies and toolsets you need to maintain a reliable development and delivery infrastructure. Learn how to effectively implement a real CI/CD solution, all the way from a Git commit to a container running in your cluster.

Bridge the gap between the past, present, and future with Puppet

It’s the end of a long week filled with countless taxing IT change requests. You put your mobile phone on vibrate, still apprehensive from the ALL CAPS text message abruptly received from the IT director last week. Your eyes are burning from the blue hue of your laptop. You begin to shut it down for the evening, lower the TV volume, and sluggishly doze into a deep sleep.

How one bank modernized their infrastructure and optimized costs

Back in 2005, the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) Group was running about 600 Unix servers and they had a bunch of manual processes that slowed down their software delivery cycles and could cause huge delays. As David Sandilands, an infrastructure engineer at RBS, put it in a webinar he did with us, their releases weren’t quick enough.

Chaos Engineering and Windows: Mitigating common Windows failure scenarios

Microsoft Windows is a popular operating system for many enterprise applications, such as Microsoft SQL Server clusters and Microsoft Exchange Servers. About 30% of the world’s web application hosting systems are running Windows, making it an important part of every enterprise’s plans to prevent outages and enhance reliability.

SQL Server, Part 4: Understanding built-in SQL Server principals

In the previous blog in this series, we discussed the principle of least privilege, and the importance of assigning bare minimum privileges to users and systems at database or server levels. However, there are certain built-in principals in your database that possess all permissions in SQL Server. If an attacker managed to get hold of one of these principals, the database could be easily exploited and damaged.