nClouds was invited to join the AWS Service Catalog Accreditation program as an early participant and has earned the accreditation. The program is designed to provide consultants with the necessary validation of their skill set to advise customers on provisioning governance in the AWS cloud. “Expertise to create approved and curated collections of applications and […]
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HfS Research spotlights nClouds’ success supporting clients’ technology and cultural changes associated with adopting a DevOps approach, and credits our SaaS software platform (nOps) for offering both clear oversight of cloud infrastructure dependencies and a quick route to identifying cost savings across the cloud. “Crucially, the deployment of technologies such as automation is the easy […]
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This blog post is part of a continuing series aligned with the AWS Well-Architected Framework. In this post, we’ll explore AWS Fargate in the context of operational excellence, performance efficiency, and cost optimization — three pillars of the Well-Architected Framework. In a nutshell, Fargate enables you to focus less on servers and more on your […]
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I’m excited about this new productivity solution the nClouds team has created — we’ve made it faster and easier to get started on big data apps with the Quick Start for Amazon EMR by nClouds. We saw that as our clients were instrumenting their infrastructure and overall business, they were creating enormous volumes of data. […]
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nClouds achieved recertification in the AWS Managed Service Provider (MSP) Partner Program. The program is designed for AWS consulting partners with expert-level skills in cloud infrastructure and application migration, and that deliver value to customers by offering proactive monitoring, automation, and management of their customer’s environment. “To obtain the MSP Partner designation, MSP Partners meet […]
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This blog kicks off a series in which we’ll address topics aligned with the AWS Well-Architected Framework. If you were at AWS re:Invent, you probably heard AWS CTO Werner Vogels talk about well-architected cloud architecture. The AWS Well-Architected Framework provides a consistent approach and guidance to evaluate architectures and implement scalable designs, with a focus […]
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DevOps.com announced the winners of their third annual DevOps Dozen awards. An A-list panel of judges comprised of industry analysts, editors, and other subject matter experts selected nClouds from a list of finalists announced in December, earning nClouds the top spot in the Best New DevOps Solutions Company category. We’re honored, of course, and want […]
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As organizations expand cloud adoption, it becomes critical to track assets, build workflows, and secure workloads in a defined and standardized manner. With AWS Service Catalog, you can launch pre-approved resources in AWS and incorporate existing ITSM and ITOM systems into your cloud workflows to eliminate silos and encourage DevOps best practices. At nClouds, we’re […]
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We’re thrilled that the editors of Insights Success magazine included nClouds in their annual list of leading AWS Solution Providers. The full-length story, based on interviews with JT Giri, CEO & Co-Founder of nClouds, provides a great overview of nClouds’ mission and services, and an introduction to some of our customers and their successes. Read […]
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Together with co-sponsor AWS, nClouds recently added our second entry to the 5C’s Series of webinars discussing customer journeys with CI, CD, Containers, Cloud and Culture. The new webinar explores the story of nDimensional, a pioneer in machine learning, AI, big data, and IoT, and how they scaled their infrastructure to support rapid growth. I […]
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nClouds is thrilled to announce we are among the early AWS partners to be certified in the AWS Well-Architected program. What that means is nClouds is now an AWS Approved Well-Architected Partner and is certified to provide AWS Well-Architected Reviews. AWS Well-Architected Reviews use the AWS Well-Architected Framework to provide a consistent approach to evaluate […]
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Migrating a database is a typical task for many DevOps engineers and one we do frequently for our clients. Amazon has this great, aptly named service called AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) https://aws.amazon.com/dms/ that we use to migrate databases like Oracle, MySQL, or SQL Server from one server to another. But there are databases that […]
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nClouds is honored to be included in the CIOReview annual listing of “the best vendors who provide technologies that help design, migrate, manage, and optimize workloads on AWS.” The list is compiled by a panel of CEOs, CIOs, VCs, industry analysts, and the CIOReview editorial board. We’re all in on AWS, so this is especially […]
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5 ways to do change management at the speed of DevOps. Change is inevitable. In fact, if you’re practicing Agile and DevOps, of all the “continuous” states that you aspire to, there’s one you can count on, and that’s continuous change. Your team is continuously changing the infrastructure to deliver value to your customers in […]
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At nClouds, we’re thrilled to be included in the CIOReview annual listing of “20 companies that are at the forefront of providing IT Service Management solutions and impacting the marketplace.” The list is compiled by a panel of CEOs, CIOs, VCs, industry analysts, and the CIOReview editorial board. They were particularly excited about nOps and […]
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nClouds recently kicked off the 5C’s Series of webinars that presents customer case studies on CI, CD, Containers, Cloud and Culture, in collaboration with co-sponsors, Amazon Web Services (AWS). In our first session, I was joined by Jarrod Sinclair, Chief Architect, Prodea; Doug Cliche, Solution Architect, AWS; and Alan Shimel, Editor-in-Chief, DevOps.com. We explored key […]
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In Part 1 of this blog series we introduced you to Helm. Then, in Part 2, we saw how to specify parameters for a particular Helm release and showed examples that could be applied to other Kubernetes components like stateful and daemon sets. Earlier we created the files and templates for deployments and services that […]
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In our first installment of this blog series we introduced you to Helm and gave you an overview. Need a quick refresh? Read “Simplify Kubernetes deployments with Helm (Part 1)” Now let’s dig a little deeper. Let’s investigate the Chart we have been using for our example. Instead of installing the Chart like we did […]
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Here at nClouds we work extensively with AWS while assisting our clients with cloud migration, building deployment pipelines, or just managing their cloud infrastructure. We all know that AWS innovates fast. They are always adding new services and then updating them. Even for an organization like ours that specializes in AWS consulting, it’s sometimes hard […]
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Cloud adoption is on the rise. According to a recent study, 85 percent of enterprises adopted a multi-cloud strategy in 2017, up from 82 percent in 2016. The business benefits of cloud computing are quickly becoming well understood, especially in the financial sector, where personal security and compliance play a significant role in ensuring customer […]
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