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New York Times and the move to the “cloud”

Jun 13, 2017

[Cafebiz] The clear benefits when moving to the “cloud” is the driving force for many businesses move permanently databases and infrastructure to the cloud computing platform.

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April, sources told the New York Times, the newspaper veteran and leading reputation America has officially partnered with Amazon and Google to put most of the data center to the cloud. Accordingly, 3 of 4 data center of this publisher will be posted on the cloud storage services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Single center is retained inside the building of the New York Times (NYT) in Times Square.

The cause of this shift is to respond better to the reader is strongly rising quantity of the NYT. During the past year, particularly in the US presidential election, and registration of people read the newspaper’s long-term increase. This leads to the need to extend and improve the technology, and applications NYT chose the cloud server with the most advanced technology.

The reason is obvious transformation. As a major newspaper with tens of millions of readers from around the world, NYT must meet the huge traffic. There are times when application notice must send 20-30 million notified as soon as there is news, and would be a huge setback if the system lacks flexibility, inability to meet the high traffic in a short time .

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NYT will abandon the traditional data center server to use cloud

Nick Rockwell, Technical Director of the NYT have identified the problems to be solved. He said that applications and websites are well designed, but the infrastructure of newspapers still a lot of problems when not synchronized well. So he set out three objectives to be able to fix the problem: operational stability, high speed of response and ability to change the fit flexible infrastructure on demand.

With three goals, cloud computing is the technology best met. Thanks composed of thousands of computers connected via the network, the cloud server can respond to any request processing, computation. Even when there are sudden demand, the flexibility of the cloud system can also handle all the requests.

Cloud computing is also rated higher than traditional methods of server stability and speed. Most service providers of cloud computing are guaranteed uptime to 99.99%. This is vital for businesses or publishers like the NYT.

The application of cloud computing technology also help save lots of cost. When using one of Fastly technology to control traffic based on cloud computing, the NYT could save up to 25,000 USD per month. Publisher Harvard even be up to 18% cut technology costs when switching to use AWS services. Said director of IT publishers, once turned to cloud computing is “certainly we will not turn back.”

Of course, the benefits of cloud computing does not just apply to major publishers. Any company wishing to technology centers or access stored data can all enjoy the same benefits when using cloud computing. With features such as flexibility, strength, superior hardware capability gives operators more efficient compared to traditional servers.

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These advantages of CMC Cloud Services

In Vietnam today, many businesses still shy and do not realize the benefits of cloud computing. This technology contributes to small businesses have access to resources that were previously only available to large enterprises. Realizing the growing trend of cloud computing, JSC Telecom Infrastructure (CMC Telecom) has investment and infrastructure construction, service Cloud Serverwith the advantages such as stability, delivery simple, accessible and systems of care, attentive customer support.

Put vision service provider for both markets in Southeast Asia, CMC Telecom is implementing multiple data centers in Singapore, Japan, Australia … This will be a firm support for the company in Vietnam ambition provide services to international clients.

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Source:  http://cafebiz.vn/new-york-time-va-su-dich-chuyen-len-may-20170613105129311.chn

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