Wherever you are in your cloud journey, it is important to always ensure that your workloads are running optimally. There are many factors that contribute to a well architected environment. […]
This post was originally published on the Stax blog. Organisations typically need a multi-account strategy to support the requirements of running their AWS ecosystem. It’s important to set up the accounts in a […]
Whether we like it or not, we are all connected. COVID-19 has demonstrated with ruthless efficiency the fact that what happens in one corner of the globe can impose a rapid and significant effect on people and organisations across the world.
Ping has named Versent, a Melbourne-headquartered technology, managed services and PaaS provider, “Partner of the Year” for the Asia Pacific market.
Infrastructure and property company John Holland made a strategic decision in 2017 to move onto Amazon Web Services (AWS), in order to make its ICT spend more efficient and move out of its on-premises data centre.
AWS OUTPOSTS AWS Outposts is a new fully managed service that extends AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any customer datacenter, co-location space, or on-premises facility for […]
Versent is now an AWS approved Well Architected Partner, and we have built a dedicated practice to offer our customers AWS Well-Architected Reviews, that is completely complimentary. At Versent, […]
Last night Versent hosted the Men Championing Change (MCC) oversubscribed meetup where “Everyday Sexism” was discussed. Everyday sexism occurs in both formal and casual settings and can be something that’s […]
If you’ve had any experience working in technology, this scenario probably rings true and I know there’s some of you out there who drag your feet into that meeting room […]
Understand your data When doing ETL/Data projects, it is really important that you figure out what your data is. How it is structured, how it gets modified, how frequently it […]
This Saturday, 1 June 2019, I will join 10 of my Versent teammates, and 50 others to ride 650kms from Hann River Road House (outside of Cairns) to the top […]
Versent was asked to take part in the “This Is My Architecture” series at the 2019 AWS Sydney Summit. The series focuses on unique architectures that solve real-world customer problems. […]
I’d heard the hype around AWS Summit, and now I can understand the hype to be true. This week, I joined 14,000 other humans in fast-moving cues and with an […]
Every monitoring improvement, however small, that the Versent Managed Services (VMS) team learn along the way now gets fed into these recipes, further developing Alarm Bot. As some of you […]
Purple and white balloons, home-made scones, pav and hot cross buns set the scene for our morning tea fundraiser to celebrate International Women’s Day (IWD). Before we ravished the amazing […]
Balance is not solely a women’s responsibility, nor is it only faced by women. Laura Brandon, Senior API /Microservices Engineer, Versent Today marks International Women’s Day, a global celebration […]
Have you started a planned sprint only to realise hidden dependencies? Thought your stories were adequately analysed, and realised mid-sprint that they were not really sprint ready? Relax, you are […]
Security and DevOps terminology arguments, and how they relate to IT Transformation. I have a long running dispute over terminology with my boss. He is a purist and is trying […]
My 2018 was rounded out by recapping some of the highlights from AWS re:Invent for some of our customers. Now we’re in 2019 (happy new year everyone), and I’m sharing […]
As an engineer neck deep into AWS thanks to my role at Versent, I could not have been happier to head to AWS re:Invent – one of the largest tech […]
On the long dusty road to any new event, several things always cross my mind. 1. Who is going to be there? 2. What type of new people will I meet? […]
It’s 4pm on a school day. A little girl is meandering about her dad’s general store and she asks for a chocolate snack and the response she gets is a […]
I have worked in the security caper since the early 2000s in various capacities inside enterprises and vendors, and in other IT fields for 10 years or so prior to […]
Australian organisations are forecast to spend $5.6 billion on public cloud services in 2019. By 2020, local public cloud spend will reach $6.6 billion, and hit $7.7 billion by 2021, […]
Versent recently started working with a large telco to help build and deploy APIs and microservices. Our customer was very clear about what they needed the new microservices to deliver: […]
Notwithstanding the excessive time spent on a plane and having to adjust to several different time zones; I definitely had my work cut out for me during this time as […]
Deciding to join Versent was all about timing. When I met the founders of Versent for the first time, the business was just a year old. Their passion for starting […]
I recently presented a talk on serverless to the Women Who Code community held at the Versent Sydney office. Women Who Code is an international non-profit organisation dedicated to inspiring […]
Three years ago, I left my cushy corporate job and took a chance on a one year old start up. Why? Maybe I was a little crazy, but mostly, I […]
AWS is great at giving you the building blocks for your cloud implementation. In fact, we often use the metaphor of building a house to explain how you can – […]
As an AWS premier partner, Versent is always upskilling our team in the ways of AWS. We most recently achieved 100 AWS certifications via the Amazon Web Services Partner Network. […]
I was pretty stoked to be invited to talk about container security and participate in a panel discussion… I’m not going to lie, it is always a little daunting to […]
Like me, you’ve likely sat through project status update meetings where month in, month out we’re told our program is ‘green’ until all of a sudden one day, it’s ‘red’… […]
You can patch your EC2 systems and run SSM in a few easy steps. But first, why should you use SSM? It’s a fully managed service It’s integrated with IAM and Cloudtrail provides access […]
Why you need a Data Lake is a topic that has been discussed at length. Today, I want to answer a commonly asked customer question – “What is the best […]
The #1 skill to have in the 21st century is to “learn the art of learning” The team at Versent was slated to join a new client on a micro-services […]
Last week, myself and the Versent security team attended the inaugural Sydney DevSecOps meetup. I was excited to see 70+ people in attendance, from a range of industries and a […]
I would like to share a recap from AWS re:invent 2017, focusing only on the security releases from the conference. Release 1: AWS Private Link Features: 1) AWS Private Link allows […]
The first thing I noticed, and perhaps the most exciting, was how much of a focus there was on machine learning. From Werner Vogel’s keynote speech (for those of you […]
Long before cloud and data centres, everyone had their personal servers to host their websites, applications etc. These servers used to be in a “server room” on a particular floor […]
We are beyond the early days of the internet where everything security was viewed as in terms of firewalls and network appliances. Security solutions have extended beyond a binary outcome […]
It hurts, right? We expect software to give us the right feedback, and at the right time. As developers, we do write good documentation or the correct log messages at […]
Allow us to introduce ourselves. Founded in 2014, Versent began life as a small tech start-up with around 20 team members. Fast forward to today, and we’ve grown our team […]
I work in the professional arena and on a daily basis discover, analyse and make recommendations on risks that exist in organisations. But I am frequently dismayed by what I […]
The first step to helping prevent this is acknowledging that it is a problem in the first place, and reducing the social stigma surrounding mental illness. Encouraging people to open […]
The Hero As a managed service engineer you are often rewarded with praise for successful implementation of a change or delivery of an improvement idea. On occasions, you “save the […]
Working in security, at times I feel like I am living a double life – one as an “all-knowing” consultant, the other as a hypocritical human being who makes mistakes […]
The good news is, tools to detect, inform and report are getting better, so are the adoption of the processes. From Sonarqube to Selenium, from Agile Testing to DevOps. However, […]
In fact, a recent survey cited in the Harvard Business Review found that 63% of firms plan to invest more than $10 million in 2017 (compared to 24% in 2012). […]
It is often easy to identify our own technical inadequacies and what specifically is needed to remedy those inadequacies because they are readily apparent to us. If you can’t figure […]
For those who didn’t see it, the early section dealt with Steve at University and I think gave a glimpse of how the roots of the IT industry based in […]
The annual event held in Chicago and hosted by Ping, receives nominations from outstanding companies such as Netflix, Adidas, Cisco System and many more. A huge congratulations to all winners! This […]
After you have rushed out and created that first AWS account, to gain an understanding of AWS and play with Lambda! It’s important to take sometime and decide how many […]
Around 10 years ago, a couple of mates and I had a bright idea that we could (perhaps singlehandedly) transform the face of electronic banking. We put together a prototype […]
On asking if they could have predicted such rapid success James offered: “I don’t think we could have tipped that we would win BRW Fast 50 and lodge number 7 in that” […]
These are questions which were easier to answer five or so years ago, when organisations typically owned one cloud (AWS) account. The AWS account only had one kind of server […]
