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Google Introduces Machine Images to Simplify Making and Restoring Virtual Machines
In a recent blog post, Google announced machine images, a new type of Compute Engine resource containing all the information users need to create, backup or restore a virtual machine, and thus reducing the amount of time required for managing environments. The feature in Compute Engine is currently in beta, and not covered by any SLA or deprecation policy.
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Amazon Updates S3 Service with Same-Region Replication
Recently, Amazon introduced a new option to its cloud storage service S3 - Same Region Replication (SRR). With this new option in S3, customers can now create a replica of their uploaded data in the same region yet in a different S3 bucket.
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Google Cloud Memorystore Adds Import-Export and Redis 4.0
In a recent announcement, Google has unveiled two new features for Cloud Memorystore, their fully managed Redis service. These features consist of the beta of import-export, allowing to import and export data from and to other Redis instances, as well as the general availability of Redis 4.0 support.
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Microsoft Announces the Public Preview of the Azure File Share Backup Capability
Microsoft announced the public preview of the Azure Backup integration with Azure Files. With the Azure File Share service, customers will have a cloud solution for file sharing in Azure, which supports the industry Server Message Block (SMB) Protocol standard. The integration of the Azure backup service will offer a native backup solution for Azure File shares.
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GitLab.com Postmortem Digs into Root Causes of 18 Hour Outage
GitLab's postmortem into the root cause of their 18 hour site outage is a detailed look at how the incident began, how it got worse before it got better, and how they plan to learn from the mistakes and improve the service.
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Fatigue, Spam, and Lack of Backups Take down GitLab.com
What started out as an attempt to protect GitLab.com from spammers turned sour as engineer fatigue and a lack of backups took the site down for nearly 18 hours and the loss of six hours worth of production data.
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Microsoft Releases Azure Backup Server
On October 7th, 2015 Microsoft announced the general availability of its Azure Backup Server. Azure Backup Server was previously known as Project Venus and targets backup scenarios for small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) customers.
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Microsoft adds New Features to Azure Backup
Microsoft has added a set of new features to Azure Backup that addresses key enterprise use cases.
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AnyPresence Soups up Enterprise MBaaS Platform- Part 1 of 2
Mobile Backend as a Service provider AnyPresence continues to hone their chops. Launching the fifth update to their self-titled platform geared for the enterprise. Co-founder Rich Mendis provides some insights for InfoQ readers…
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Windows Azure Adds Active Directory, New Backup Service, Monitoring and Log Improvements
Microsoft has announced the availability of Windows Azure Active Directory, new backup service with support for incremental backups including several monitoring and log improvements.
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Chris Eargle Talks on Better Application Management
In an exclusive interview with InfoQ, Chris Eargle, Telerik Technical Evangelist shares his views about how productivity can be enhanced by following few tips in day to day programming tasks.
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Validating a Backup Strategy with Restore
Jeff Atwood has recently lost two of his blog sites: Blog @ Stackoverflow and Coding Horror. He managed to recover the contents of both websites, but what lessons are to be learned from this event?