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What can we learn from last month’s cloud and social network outages? When prominent cloud platforms and social networks such as WhatsApp, Facebook, Google Cloud, Apple Pay, Cloudflare and Instagram suffer extensive outages in a single week, impacting huge numbers of end users and businesses, and resulting in a constellation of issues including missed opportunitiesRead more

What is a microservice and what are the benefits and challenges associated with implementing a microservice architecture? This article, republished from our partner Caylent’s blog provides some great insights on the topic. What Is a Microservice? It is beyond the scope of this article to provide an exhaustive definition of a microservice. That said, hereRead more

Upstack is one of our partners and provides businesses with the first modern SaaS platform for procuring data center services. In this blog, which first appeared on the Upstack website, they draw an interesting analogy between Game of Thrones and the world of  hybrid IT. NYI is right on board with their thinking. Team UpStackRead more

FastMail is one of our earliest clients, and they offer secure, reliable email hosting for individuals and businesses. In this guest article, they discuss the value of independent email in offering enhanced privacy and security, knowledgeable and responsive support, and no compromises on product features and usability. Email is our filing system for life. BankRead more

Are you considering implementing DevOps but not sure how to get started? This article covers some of the considerations and highlights the importance of working with a DevOps consultant to help you have a smooth transition. It is republished here, from our partner Caylent’s blog. Efficiency is one of the fundamental pillars upon which anyRead more

Interested in learning more about how Kubernetes could help your organization?  This blog will help you understand what it is and how it works. It is republished here, courtesy of our DevOps partner Caylent. It’s easy to overlook how young Kubernetes is in the world of containerization. Given its explosion in popularity, you’d be forgivenRead more

DevOps is a technical and cultural approach to development, deployment, and infrastructure that unites the responsibilities of development and operations teams; facilitates fast, iterative code releases; and provides seamless infrastructure scalability. The DevOps methodology brings together operations and development through a set of workflow best practices that give engineers control over the infrastructure that runsRead more

NEW YORK – February 13, 2019 – NYI, a global provider of cloud and managed infrastructure services, has announced its partnership with Caylent, a leading provider of DevOps and container solutions. The partnership augments NYI’s comprehensive range of managed IT services with an end-to-end DevOps solution that empowers NYI clients to accelerate code testing andRead more

In this article, we look at how NYI’s HDRaaS for VMware Cloud on AWS, fueled by Faction, offers a reliable and cost-effective cloud disaster recovery platform for VMware users. On a long enough timeline, every business will suffer an infrastructure outage. The complexity and fragility of server and network hardware guarantees the occasional failure. BusinessesRead more

Downtime costs businesses an average of $5,600 per minute, according to Gartner. That’s $336,000 an hour and $8,064,000 a day. These figures are averages and the cost of downtime to your business may be higher or lower, but, whatever its size, no business can afford long service outages. Disaster recovery infrastructure protects businesses from theRead more