What to Expect at AWS re:Invent 2016

With a full extra day of content, two new venues, and twice as many breakout sessions as last year — this year’s re:Invent looks to be unlike any before. Keep in mind, this is AWS so we can expect every modern IT topic and trend to be covered, including IoT, containers, mobile, and big data, making it an IT even you won’t want to miss.

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The Difference Between a Converged and Hyper-converged Data Center

Today, the terms converged and hyper-converged infrastructure are finding their way into more architecture discussions as well as management meetings. The trend is supported by efforts to build internal cloud services for applications or data that cannot move to a public cloud as well as the ongoing drive to squeeze costs out of IT.

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AWS’ Hottest New Products Launched at re:Invent 2015

Amazon Web Services’ yearly shindig, re:Invent, turned out to be yet another whirlwind of information and product releases. Here’s the skinny on all of the important new services, in the order of what I see as the most impactful. Like all major cloud providers these days, AWS is launching these services in beta or preview mode. But in AWS parlance, that simply means that the services don’t yet have all features they’d like to see in production. All of the services below are available for immediate use.

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