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Top things to consider before DevOps implementation

As a representative of a more collaborative method of software development,   DevOps service   underscores the mutual dependence of software development and the operational aspects of a project along with its quality assurance. As you come to know about DevOps, there can be several questions that come to your mind. Does your organization need DevOps? If yes, why? In what all ways will it help improve your business processes? Once you’re convinced to implement it to your business, you’ll want to know what structural changes will you need to make to your organization. What place to assign to the DevOps teams in your organizational structure? And so on. This article is an endeavor to address to all such queries that you might have. The truth about DevOps is that you do not need it to simply get rid of the poor team collaboration in your business. It is not confined to an industry in particular. And in order to implement agile technology to your software development, it is n...

Questions to Ask Cloud Implementation Partners Before Hiring their Services

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Cloud Implementation Selecting your cloud solutions partner is a critical yet challenging task for any business, big or small. For businesses taking their initial steps into implementing cloud, there are a few criteria they need to consider and test their potential cloud partners on, to achieve successful and profitable cloud solution that works perfectly for their business. We have compiled a list of questions; you should consider asking your potential cloud partners to take and informed decision and reduce the chances of failures in your cloud implementation services journey. “ Do you have past success stories related to similar deployment?” The starting point of discussion with your prospective cloud partner could be asking them for similar deployment cases they have managed in the past. This will help add a dimension of pragmatism to their ‘on-paper’ plan which might otherwise encounter technical glitches which could be resolved easily owing to th...

Quality 24/7 Outsourcing Technical Support

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The market is abound with web hosting service providers who claim to offer 24*7 outsourcing technical support for your web hosting business. Amidst the multiple technical support providers of seemingly similar offerings and promises of high service quality, you are bound to use your judgment to decide which would be the best one to meet your business needs and adequately address to the needs of your clientèle as well. And then, at the end of the day, does ‘availing a 24*7 support provider’ necessarily translate into getting to on-board the support staff for ‘instant and anytime availability’? Not always! So, what all are the challenges that you might encounter on your way to realistically finding a services provider that just about fits the bill for your business needs? We have compiled a list of all such challenges that you must be aware of, well in advance, to help you compare and make an informed decision with ease. 1. Round-the-clock support usually transla...

DevOps Basics You Should Know Before Adopting Services

Before you consider   D evOps service   for your organization to embrace this new approach, it is critical for you to develop at least a basic understanding of what all it takes for the holistic implementation of devOps for your organization. Just like agile, the adoption of devOps also involves embracing a set of practices that result from an organizational attitude, philosophy and culture. This is the reason why adopting devOps can be a bit misleading since the organizations are likely to undertake a few of the devOps related activities according to their understanding of it, and thereby, start believing that they have implemented it successfully – regardless of whether these activities define devOps or not. By this, we mean to say that more than being just a set of activities, devOps is a cultural change that an organization needs to make, for embracing it wholeheartedly. So, exactly what all does the devOps culture comprise of? To get there, we need to understand what m...

Select the Best Outsourced Technical Support

It is critical for the success of a majority of hosting and data center companies to avail affordable and efficient outsourced technical support services. These companies required the services of a technical support provider in order to field the issues from their clients in order of their priority. With a suitable technical support provider, is a hosting services provider able to earn the reputation of providing quality customer support. Web hosting companies therefore, usually follow the practice of outsourcing technical support offered online to their end customers for them to enjoy a high responsiveness and minimized down time. When your hosting company has the perfect technical support partner on board, it becomes easy for you to manage all the client conversations and resolve all the client queries and concerns in a systematic and satisfactory manner. When it comes to assessing the technical support needs of your hosting business, you are surrounded by multiple ...

Outsourced Web Hosting Technical Support - Key Benefits

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A lots of companies outsource their support services. In such a case, the technical aspect of the maintenance are served by an outside agency. These agencies provide the clients of the hosting provider company with technical support over emails, chats and phone calls. They directly deal with all the maintenance issues the client is facing. Some of the hosting companies avail part-time outsourcing of these services wherein the outsourced company fetches all the details of the maintenance issues and escalates them to the hosting provider company that performs the required fixes. Outsourced Web Hosting Technical Support Here are some of the key benefits of outsourcing the support services to an outside agency: Availability of 24/7/365 tech support service from the company for all their complaints. This gives them more confidence in the web hosting company. The hosting companies no need to worry about customer care once they outsourced. They need to focus only on marke...

Xen Vs OpenVZ

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While both Xen and OpenVZ are open source server virtualization technology, there exists some big differences between the two.  I think potential VPS customers might need to check the applications that need to be hosted to determine which one is the preferable virtualization technology. On one hand you have Xen, a para-virtualization platform that gives you much of the dedicated server behavior.  You run your own instance of Linux kernel, you can load your own kernel modules, you have properly virtualized memory, IO and scheduler, and it’s stable and predictable.  On the other hand you have OpenVZ, an operating-system level virtualization system that is just a thin layer on top of the underlying OS. It is simple to understand, has lower overhead, which usually translates to better performance. OpenVZ Memory Model. First of all, when VPSLink’s OpenVZ Link-3 says “256MB guaranteed”, it actually means around 232MB of “privvmpag...