The system-to-administrator ratio is commonly used as a rough metric to understand administrative costs in high-scale services. With smaller, less automated services this ratio can be as low as 2:1, ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Fill in the blank for the Contoso cloud scenario. A(n) [?] helps organizations get the most ...

A proxy server is a go‑between or intermediary server that forwards requests from multiple clients to different servers across the Internet. The proxy server can act as a “traffic cop,” in both ...

Storagetapper is deployed in production at Uber and used to produce snapshot and realtime changed data of thousands of MySQL tables across multiple datacenters. It is also used as a backup service to ...

Vembu Technologies releasing new Vembu VM Backup Suite Free Edition for VMware, Hyper-V, KVM and physical environments. The latest release of their software is Vembu BDR v3.9.1 (but 4.0 is comming).