Tag: Infrastructure

Last year, SAP announced another extension to its support deadline for legacy systems, pushing it from 2025 to the end of 2027.  Despite this minor respite, however, it’s only a matter of time before businesses reliant on older systems will…

This is the fourth in a series of blog posts that covers the details to deploy a high available set up of Oracle Enterprise Manager 13.5 using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s resources.   Recap This is the fourth of a six-part…

If you have a New Relic Infrastructure Pro license, and unmonitored MySQL servers, there’s now an easy solution at your fingertips. With the New Relic MySQL integration you can monitor and graph almost any detailed metric you could possibly want….

As business entities move some of their services to Microsoft Azure Cloud (Azure), we see hybrid networks emerge that can span multiple physical sites and multiple cloud environments. Connecting those network segments securely can present some challenges. I’ve encountered two types…

Today, Pythian is pleased to announce that it has achieved a Google Cloud Partner Specialization in Infrastructure. The Google Cloud Partner Specialization Program is designed to connect customers to qualified partners with demonstrated technical proficiency and proven project success in areas including…

While working on a few tasks in the past few weeks, I faced a problem that involved setting a “filter” for an application that was exposed to the internet. The application receives requests with some data, processes it and then…

Unless you have been hiding under a rock, you have probably heard the term “Infrastructure as a Code” thrown around. Infrastructure as Code – largely made possible by the rise of Cloud Infrastructure – has revolutionized automation because it was…

Chris Stankaitis, Team Manager, Site Reliability Engineering at Pythian, reflects on the theme of change at LISA16.

Thiago Carvalho, Site Reliability Consultant ay Pythian, details how to deploy Docker containers using AWS Opsworks.

Based on previous findings on CPU counting in public clouds, we look at an example where it makes a big difference: software licensing, particularly Oracle. Additional licensing costs resulting from CPU counting can dwarf any cost savings on infrastructure. We talk about how this happens, and show an example.