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Drupal Emergency Support: How to get your Drupal site back up
What do you do when your Drupal website goes down? How do you get Drupal back up as soon as possible to continue serving customers? If you are managing your own infrastructure or you’re running Drupal on the public cloud and your site goes down, BlackMesh can help restore it.
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Atlassian Hosting: Advantages of using a FedRAMP-Authorized Provider
One of the most challenging topics any IT team might find themselves struggling with is Federal security compliance.
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Contegix Launches Managed Services for Drupal on AWS
Contegix is offering a managed services solution for companies with Drupal sites on Amazon Web Services, enabling businesses to focus on delivering the best digital experiences to their users, rather than configuring website infrastructure.
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BlackMesh announces new partnership with Lando
As our customers’ development needs rapidly progress, the BlackMesh team believes it is critical to invest in the tools developers use to advance scalability and deploy quicker. Today, we announced the beginning of a new partnership with Lando to help developers everywhere take advantage of the speed and scale of their applications. As our preferred local dev tool, Lando combines the flexibility, ease of use, and automation for all workflows in a single dev tool. The Lando team has demonstrated a strong commitment to user success by continuing to innovate their toolset.
Everything You Need to Know About Moving to Atlassian’s Public Cloud
Earlier this year, Atlassian stopped selling new licenses for its on-prem server products, also ceasing upgrades and downgrades, new feature development and support for these licenses. For organizations with existing Atlassian on-prem server licenses, the announcement means an eventual migration from Atlassian’s on-prem servers to Atlassian’s public cloud by February 2024 (data centers will still receive support and new features for those not ready for cloud).
For Federal Agencies, Website or Application Hosting Has a Different Regulatory Rulebook as New Laws Go Into Effect
Building fast, reliable, secure and accessible websites and online services is a top priority for the government today. Agencies have been porting more citizen services online for several years, but COVID-19 has shifted what was once seen as long-term “nice-to-have” projects into necessities.
Measure IT Success With These KPIs
IT departments are responsible for many facets of a business that extend far beyond server rooms: from opening and closing support tickets to implementing comprehensive digital transformation initiatives. But how can businesses ensure that their IT service department’s work is aligned with larger business objectives? “It’s important for teams to regularly measure success against a Service Level Agreement, which includes key metrics like abandonment rate, response time, and overall customer satisfaction.”
Self-Managed Technology Stack for Drupal: Is this DrupalOps?
So, you use Drupal, but you're not hosting on a dedicated Drupal platform. You’re either managing your own infrastructure or you’re running Drupal on the public cloud. What do you call what you're doing? No seriously! How would you describe what you do? And I’m not talking about contributing to the Drupal codebase or related modules. How do you describe the management of your technology stack and CI/CD pipeline?
How Higher Education Can Create Cost Efficiency Through Managed Services
One year since the pandemic began, colleges and universities still face uncertainty around when students will fully return to in-person learning. In the United States, only 35 percent of students have returned to schools for in-person learning full-time. The majority of students continue to attend virtual school, or some mix of remote and in-person classes. And even as vaccine distribution ramps up and provides a glimmer of hope for a return to in-person learning, remote learning will remain a required service in the days, months and perhaps even years to come.
Build Delightful—and Reliable—Digital Experiences with BlackMesh
Delightful digital experiences are an important differentiator for companies today. According to a 2019 report by Ekata, 92% of customers expect a fast, frictionless experience that’s also trustworthy and secure when digitally interacting with a brand. To achieve the experience customers crave, organizations are tapping into open source content management systems (like Drupal, Magento and WordPress) for flexibility and customization.
Use Atlassian Tools to Manage IT Costs—Not Cut Them
Many CIOs and IT leaders spent a significant portion of their 2020 budgets outfitting staff across departments with remote-friendly devices, tools and platforms due to the pandemic. Now that 2021 is well underway, it’s clear some companies will inevitably face the need to cut IT spending or reconsider investing in normally table stakes line items ranging from software license renewals to architecture upgrades. Luckily, Atlassian’s suite of tools are built to help IT leaders mitigate and manage IT-related costs.