Amazon Web Services had an outage yesterday. With such widespread cloud migration planning and adoption taking place these days, public cloud outages receive a lot of press, so you likely already knew this. People will want to know why it happened, but while that is...
Bots have been a constant thorn in the side of most companies operating online for several years now. With the recent drastic change in how we sell and interact with customers (as online channels in many cases are the only avenues through which to operate) bots have...
In the past, I have written critically about running ATG Oracle Commerce in “The Cloud” (Here and here). I’ve recently spent several months working on a project implementing ATG Oracle Commerce at AWS in partnership with Pivotree and wanted to share what I’ve...
Clouds that carry rain and clouds that carry your data have one thing in common: when you look up at them, you can see whatever shape you want. Your imagination is the limit. If your eCommerce sales channel has become too costly, or best case, too busy to host...
Cloud economics can be a touchy subject. Much of the hype surrounding cloud hosting points to a shiny list of organization-wide changes — this includes watershed upgrades to strategy, scalability, cost and beyond. While such excitement is deserved, the cloud is not as...
For both B2C and B2B online stores, the performance and flexibility of the infrastructure can make the difference between success and failure. The nature of ecommerce hosting has changed dramatically over time, especially during the past several years. Once the only...