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Flexera Acquires RightScale – The Multi-Cloud Management Platform Company

November 16, 2018 By ezcloud Leave a Comment

Flexera, an IL-based software asset management (SAM) firm announced that it has acquired RightScale, one of the first multi-cloud management and cost optimization companies. Cloud IaaSSOURCE: GRAPHICSTOCK RightScale was founded in 2007 – much before cloud computing became mainstream – to deliver vendor-agnostic cloud management capabilities.… Read more

COPYING FILES BETWEEN S3 BUCKETS FOR LARGEFS

November 15, 2018 By ezcloud Leave a Comment

With WP Engine’s proprietary LargeFS system, utilizing an Amazon S3 bucket, you can offload all of your site’s images to help stay within your plan’s local storage limits. However, this does present a challenge when you want to create a new install as a copy of an install using LargeFS.… Read more

Azure South Central US Datacenter outage and HA vs DR

November 15, 2018 By ezcloud Leave a Comment

As I woke up early morning I read news about the Azure South Central US Datacenter outage caused by cooling problems. On Linkedin I saw multiple posts from Azure experts that DR should have been implemented for the applications and databases.… Read more

GitLab raises $100 million from Iconiq, GV, and Khosla, at $1.1 billion valuation

November 14, 2018 By ezcloud Leave a Comment

Code collaboration and DevOps platform GitLab has raised $100 million in a series D round of funding led by Iconiq Capital, with participation from existing investors GV and Khosla Ventures. The latest round of funding comes nearly a year after GitLab announced its $20 million series C round, at which point the San Francisco-based company revealed its valuation had more than doubled since its series B round a year earlier — but it didn’t give a precise dollar valuation at the time.… Read more

Disallowed Plugins in WP Engine

November 14, 2018 By ezcloud Leave a Comment

With over 40,000 plugins in the WordPress plugin repository, we only forbid a relative handful. There are pretty good odds that if you want to use a plugin on our infrastructure, you can! It’s your blog after all. But what about the disallowed plugins? … Read more

Amazon picks New York and Northern Virginia for HQ2

November 14, 2018 By ezcloud Leave a Comment

After running a year-long competition that drew interest from hundreds of cities and a number of states, Amazon has reportedly chosen New York City and Northern Virginia to split duty as its second headquarters.The Wall Street Journal reported late Monday that Amazon (AMZN) has picked New York’s Long Island City and Arlington County’s Crystal City neighborhoods, citing people familiar with the matter.Amazon declined to comment to CNN.… Read more