ray, Author at Easy Cloud Solutions

August 26, 2021 By ray

How to become financially stable as a remote freelancer

Switching from traditional full-time employment to contract work can be a bit of a transition — especially if you’re also throwing in remote work at the same time. A lot is happening in the world right now and for many, going into contract work may offer more from a financial standpoint than sticking to full-time employment.… Read more

August 26, 2021 By ray

Linux Company SUSE Outbids Competitors for Fast-growing Startup Rancher Labs

SUSE, a Linux distribution company controlled by private equity firm EQT, has agreed to acquire Rancher Labs, a start-up with technology that helps organizations run software in virtual containers across many servers. From a report:The companies announced the deal Wednesday but didn’t disclose the terms. Two people familiar with the deal said SUSE is paying $600 million to $700 million.… Read more

August 25, 2021 By ray

AWS Snowcone: A Small, Lightweight, Rugged, Secure Edge Computing, Edge Storage, and Data Transfer Device

Last month I published my AWS Snowball Edge Update and told you about the latest updates to Snowball Edge, including faster storage-optimized devices with more memory & vCPUs, the AWS OpsHub for Snow Family GUI-based management tool, IAM for Snowball Edge, and Snowball Edge Support for AWS Systems Manager.… Read more

August 13, 2021 By ray

Optimizing a multimillion-dollar cloud bill

In December 2019, A Cloud Guru acquired our largest competitor, Linux Academy — along with a $2.7 million USD annual AWS bill. Prior to the acquisition, cloud spend was a proportionally small expense for ACG. After all, we’re the people who identified as the world’s first serverless startup and liked to show off pictures of our empty production EC2 console.… Read more

August 13, 2021 By ray

MSP360 – Evolving Cloud Backup with AWS for Over a Decade

Back in 2009 I received an email from an AWS developer named Andy. He told me that he and his team of five engineers had built a product called CloudBerryExplorer for Amazon S3. I mentioned his product in my CloudFront Management Tool Roundup and in several subsequent blog posts. During re:Invent 2019, I learned that CloudBerry has grown to over 130 employees and is now known as MSP360.… Read more