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Uturn Achieves AWS DevOps Competency
July 23, 2020 – Uturn Data Solutions, a Chicago-based data and cloud technology consulting firm in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN), announced today that it has achieved AWS DevOps Competency status. This designation recognizes that Uturn provides proven technology and deep expertise in helping customers implement continuous integration and continuous delivery practices and helping them automate infrastructure [...]
Uturn’s Cloud Migration Solution Improves Workload Visibility and Cost Efficiency for Amount
Spinning off Amount from Avant required a re-architecting of systems. The companies needed to separate their cloud infrastructure in order to enforce compliance requirements. Amount wanted to take advantage of the situation to build out a modern and enhanced cloud environment with appropriate governance and security.
How a Growing Medical-Financical Solutions Company Saved $250,000 by Migrating to AWS
Rising Medical Solutions was approaching a fork in the road: stay with its Chicago on-premise data center housing 25 TB of data—predominantly comprising enterprise SQL servers and .NET web services and batch applications—or make the move to AWS in the cloud?
RHEL on AWS: Red Hat Cloud Access vs AWS Red Hat On-demand
Our Vice President of Professional Services, Stephen Sadowski, takes a hard look at the cost factors surrounding bring your own license with Red Hat on AWS. This article intends to address whether or not cost is the driving factor for making a decision about bringing Red Hat system entitlements (licenses) to the cloud and how to decide whether to use [...]
Building an AWS VPC with Terraform
In David’s previous article, he outlined some general requirements and best practices around designing your first AWS VPC. This article continues what was started in order to put the design into practice. When building a multi-account AWS environment, it is important to make sure all the AWS VPCs are built the same. If this is not the case it will [...]
How Should I Configure my First AWS VPC?
If you’re looking to get started with AWS, Uturn’s Director of Engineering David Matthews is a great person to give you that help. In this short series of articles, he will help you with understanding the requirements around building the foundation for your new cloud environment and then deploying your initial VPC with Hashicorp’s Terraform.
AWS Cost Reduction Tips for Lowering Cloud Spend
Are you tasked with reducing your AWS bill during the crisis? Here are some tips and not-so-obvious ways to lower your cloud spend now! In the best of times, managing your cloud spend is important - in the current environment, with so much uncertainty and pressure to reduce cost across the organization, reducing cloud spend has become a top priority.
Three Important DevOps Concepts in a Time of Crisis (and Beyond!)
One cannot escape the fact that the COVID-19 pandemic has drastically affected everyday life across the globe, especially with day-to-day work being impacted by stay-at-home orders, quarantines, and hopefully good sense about our mutual physical health.
AWS Chicago Summit: Migrating SQL Server to AWS
Thanks to everyone who was able to attend Travis’ talk yesterday at the AWS Chicago Summit on Migrating SQL Server to AWS! For those of you who couldn’t make it, here is the link to his presentation:
Uturn Data Solutions Helps Phigenics Implement Best Practices with Well-Architected Review
Phigenics, the Independent Leader in Water Management℠, sells comprehensive water management programs. Facility managers and building owners use these programs to optimize the total cost of their water systems by improving safety and efficiency. These programs include regulatory compliance, data management and water testing analytical services.