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Flux7 weighs in on this chicken or egg question by sharing why approaching DevOps and Cloud in tandem is a preferable approach for most organizations.

“The ability to push DevOps into the mainstream of the organization through a best-practice approach is key to success,” Suleman says.

Flux7 best practices for Amazon CloudFront help improve user experiences with fast, stable and secure content delivery

In this article for Forbes Technology Council, Flux7’s Aater Suleman shares insights on how cloud computing and DevOps work together to help businesses drive meaningful IT transformation that directly impacts business goals.

Containers are an ideal foundation for migration factories, allowing organizations to create a reproducible workflow of items that enables teams to easily transition their applications into new environments.

“A lot of their competition is really co-opetition,” Suleman said of Docker and many other startups that have introduced services at various levels of the container stack. “You can’t deny the influence and value Docker is bringing to their competitors.”

“Learning by example is something we recommend to anyone trying to move into the AWS space,” said Aater Suleman, CEO of Flux7. “Creating a pet project and executing on it in AWS can teach more than any demo or blog can.”

“But with monitoring and analysis come new ways of adding value to one’s organization, said Aater Suleman,” CEO of Flux7. He cited the example of a user who was able to calculate the exact cost of each customer transaction by analyzing serverless deployment data.

“That’s the real game-changer. The front end is where containers really shine with IoT.” Aater Suleman, Flux7 CEO

On Tuesday, Flux7 debuted Microservices SmartStart, a turnkey offering available through the AWS Service Catalog that’s designed to help companies rapidly deploy and then customize cloud-native applications built from microservices.

Aater Sulemen, co-founder and CEO of Flux7 discusses hyper-automation or “self-driving IT.”

Flux7, a systems integrator based in Austin, Texas, that specializes in delivering DevOps and Internet of Things solutions on the backbone of Amazon’s cloud, is one of the initial six Migration Consulting Partners.

Docker containers allowed us to quickly and easily create microservices for Fugro that serviced its need for constant availability and reliability of service,” said Aater Suleman. “Hosting Dockerized microservices on AWS allows Fugro to dynamically scale individual services to meet demand where and when needed while making the most efficient use of Amazon EC2 instances.

Aater Suleman, CEO of Flux7, an AWS partner based in Austin, Texas, said he’s seeing the email solution come up more frequently in conversations with customers, especially those that are less technically inclined.

The move to modernize and implement DevOps practices may sometimes feel like a self-defeating prophecy as traditional IT organizations struggle to gain the knowledge needed to manage the cloud-based elements of their infrastructure.

A trio of new code deployment services — CodePipeline, CodeCommit, and CodeDeploy — caught the eye of Aater Suleman, CEO of Flux7, an Amazon consulting partner based in Austin, Texas. “Our favorite [new products] have been the Code services because Flux7 is focused on helping enterprises embrace DevOps,” Suleman said.

The Central U.S. could use an expansion,” said Aater Suleman, CEO of Flux7, an Amazon consulting partner based in Austin, Texas. “There’s sometimes a 37-millisecond delay from Dallas to Virginia, and several customers have asked us if there will be a central region.

CEO Aater Suleman told CRN the partner summit was one of the best days ever for his company.

IoT is a niche today, but the uses so far are just the tip of the iceberg, said Aater Suleman, CEO of Flux7, an Amazon consulting partner based in Austin, Texas.

Aater Suleman, CEO of Flux7 Labs, an AWS partner that’s investing in its IoT practice, told CRN the technology is winning over customers rapidly.

Ali Hussain, chief technology officer of Flux7, an Amazon Advanced Consulting Partner based in Austin, Texas, told CRN the new class will be beneficial to users turning to S3 for saving content, rather than serving content. That means archiving data, creating backups, saving logs and similar goals.

“DevOps is everything that provides business advantage through improved collaboration and automation,” said Aater Suleman, Flux7 CEO

Myth 5: Cloud security is far too difficult to maintain

“The top myth we come across about security is that security in the cloud is more difficult to maintain than on-premise,” said Aater Suleman, Flux7 CEO

Amazon Web Services now wants to host your business email in the cloud.

Amazon WorkMail, a new service released in preview on Wednesday, offers secure, enterprise-grade email that’s compatible with Microsoft Outlook and other popular email clients. Users can choose encryption keys, select the location in which they want their data to reside and pay only for the mailboxes they create.

As the cost of implementing solar panels drops, more organizations are looking to deploy solar energy solutions. Experts predict a rise in solar investment in the coming years. Monitoring and analyzing data from field sensors is a fundamental part of successful solar, and wind, energy businesses. Real-time, or up to date information about the energy used and created helps businesses respond better to changes in supply, identify potential problems and manage communication throughout supply and delivery chains.

AWS is a relatively new technology that provides freedom for an enterprise to build its infrastructure as it sees fit. Because of this variability, it can be difficult for a non-expert to tell the difference between a good AWS setup and a bad one since the devil is in the details, said Aater Suleman CEO at Flux7. A good consulting partner provides more information than what can be learned reading the AWS website, and organizations need it provided in a condensed form. APN consulting partners are able to help distill information about the best fit into meaningful guidance for the enterprise.

June 3rd, 2014