Author: Alifiya Sadikali

The following is the first in a series of blog posts covering Pythian’s Application Migration webinar series, where host Chris Presley discusses several application migration-related topics. Recently, he spoke with Alex Zadoroshnyi and Pierig Le Saux about the topic of…

When VerticalScope, a Canadian digital media and entertainment firm, wanted to automate the cloud migration of their digital assets and inventory, they came to Pythian for help with accelerating the process. VerticalScope operates a large number of high-traffic websites and…

To no one’s surprise, the world’s migration to the cloud is continuing to ramp up in both speed and volume. According to forecasts from Gartner, the worldwide public cloud services market will grow by 17.3% this year. Revenues are expected to total…

Krista Colby-Wheatley explains why Kubernetes has recently become the dominant player in the deployment, scaling and management of applications.

Now is a great time to migrate to Microsoft Data Platform. Listen to Warner and Vitor, our Microsoft MVPs, discuss upgrading SQL 2008 R2 and previous versions, to the Microsoft Data Platform 2017. Given the many options available to the…

As the migration of enterprise to the cloud accelerates, the monolithic approach to software development seems doomed to extinction. Cloud-based microservices are increasingly the preferred approach, and it’s easy to see why. Microservices break down large software projects into smaller,…

If your organization isn’t doing business in the cloud today, it might have some catching up to do. A 2017 report by LogicMonitor suggests that 83% of enterprise workloads will be in the cloud by 2020. Yet the same study…

High-performance computing (HPC) was once limited to organizations that could afford to buy and maintain systems costing tens of millions of dollars. The cloud has changed all that, creating a democracy in which teraflops are accessible to people well outside…

We recently helped a social media management platform improve its security and performance. The social media platform supports social network integrations for Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube, and has more than 15 million users. The company needed to ensure…

For years, data consumption was associated with individuals: people who stream videos, play games and otherwise live life with the help of the internet. But even though the average user’s daily data consumption is expected to increase to 1.5 gigabytes…