Celebrating Team CLOUDPORT's 2023 Success: A Year of Growth and Expertise
Discover Team CLOUDPORT's commitment to professional growth in 2023. Join us in celebrating a year of remarkable achievements and continuous learning in the ever-evolving world of cloud computing.
What is the Cloud?
Introduction
In today's digital age, "cloud computing" is everywhere and for good reasons. It's transformed how we do business, manage data, and provide services. But what exactly is it, and how does it work?
Imagine your digital life as a vast library of information, from your favorite books to cherished photo albums. In the past, you stored these on bookshelves and photo albums at home (your personal computer or local servers). While it offered convenience, there were certain limitations. These limitations included:
Blue/Green Deployment: Minimize Downtime When Deploying New Code
Deploying new code can be a tricky process. You want to make sure that the new code is working correctly, but you also don't want to take your website or application down for too long. This is where blue/green deployments come in handy.
Tips to make sure you actually keep your New Year’s Resolution
“New year, New me” versus “New Year, Nothing New!”: Whichever side you’re on, we made it to yet another year! Having dealt with the pandemic and a tough business year, this new year presents a fresh start and an exciting opportunity for businesses.
The first month is already almost over, and our resolutions (whether new ones or the old ones) must stick and here’s how!
We have our winners! - GMES and Africa Incubation Challenge 2021
They exhibited great teamwork abilities throughout the period. Participants were lending a helping hand to each other irrespective of the team they were on. It is amazing how much they accomplished within a short period of time. We have no doubt that these caliber of problem solvers will thrive in any given situation.
What you missed! - GMES & Africa Incubation Challenge
On the 9th of August, 2021, the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security & Africa (GMES & Africa) in partnership with CLOUDPORT and 4 other partners, launched an incubation program. … After receiving over seventy (70) applications from various countries, our technical experts evaluated, and selected 15 teams. The following are the teams that made it into the first phase of the challenge.
Infotech Fair 2021 - Ghana’s technology: An export commodity
In collaboration with the Accra Digital centre, the Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA) organized an Infotech Fair, the very first of its kind in Ghana. The objective of the fair was to exhibit Ghana’s emerging IT industry as well as innovative,economic and social solutions being created by indigenious Ghanaian startups and established companies.
GMES AND AFRICA LAUNCHES THE CONTINENTAL INCUBATION CHALLENGE 2021
The GMES and Africa Incubation Challenge 2021 competition targets teams or individuals with a keen interest in building sustainable environmental solutions using Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT) and Big Data that could impact the marine and coastal spaces. The Challenge is directed at developing a positive innovation culture in the maritime and coastal domain as well as building partnerships with innovative startups and individual enthusiasts.
Understanding Backup & Disaster Recovery for your business’ growth.
A number of business owners have underestimated the importance of backups and when businesses are caught up in disasters that cause data loss, business continuity becomes a challenge. … Every business must be able to bounce back from disaster in real time.To do this they need to have an efficient backup and disaster recovery plan.
Your business needs a Multi-cloud Backup and Disaster recovery plan; and here is why!
To help alleviate both cost and complexity, HYCU offers unrivaled efficiency with your data protected in the cloud, and effectively backed up. HYCU is a multi-cloud backup and recovery as a service solutions provider and as such provides HYCU for Google Cloud which delivers simplicity, efficiency, intelligence in data protection, backup and disaster recovery.
Meet the new Meet; Google Meet updates its features.
To further push the barrier of connectivity and human interaction, Google Meet has introduced new features to enhance human connection in these times and change the future of video conferencing.
Writing the Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect Exam
If you are like me and interested in the Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect, you should have a study plan (if you are already certified this might not be of interest to you). I made one for myself and will share the details with you here.
G Suite is now Google Workspace!
Google Workspace includes all of the productivity apps you know and love—Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Meet, and many more. Whether you're returning to the office, working from home, on the frontlines with your mobile device, or connecting with customers, Google Workspace is the best way to create, communicate, and collaborate.
Control your data management with Shared Drive: What it is and how it benefits your business.
Google Shared Drive is found within Google Drive and is used to store, search and access files by a team. With this feature, you can confidently worry less about information silos because the shared drive belongs to the team and not the individual. In addition, information stays within the shared drive even after members leave the team. So workflow is not disrupted and employees are empowered to work from anywhere, at any time, on any device.
Best Practices for Institutions to Secure Their Domain Name
Your domain name is the core component of your online presence. Choosing the most effective possible domain name for your website is completely critical. Your domain name is something that deserves hours, if not days, of thought, and it’s no exaggeration to mention that, in some circumstances, making the incorrect choice can break a business.
CLOUDPORT is helping maintain the connection between teachers and students with G Suite for Education.
G Suite for Education has been in existence and has become one of the major solutions to maintaining the school work as remotely as we know it. CLOUDPORT as a Google Cloud partner and reseller, is offering as part of this product, a free training session for up to 5 educators per institution(Offer runs till 31st July 2020). If you are interested in taking the step to move your institution forward despite COVID 19, keep reading!
Stay connected to teams and In tune with your Business — Tools to help you work remotely.
To work from home or remotely, you will need communication tools, project management tools and tools that enable file sharing and storage. All these categories of tools when put together effectively will surely make you a super remote worker. These are tools we have tried and recommend to be helpful to you working remotely, whenever the need arises.
Useful Hacks In Google Docs: Tips You Never Knew You Needed Till Now.
If you are a strong team player, there is a very high possibility that you spend most of your working hours in a word processing application. If you are a G Suite user then you are probably using Google docs for collaborations with your colleagues. To have an easy navigation through docs daily here are some hacks I compiled to help!
Using Gmail as an Email client.
Do you have more than one active email address? Do you have to check each inbox everyday? Do you open several tabs or browsers to get to the individual inboxes? Does it stress you out?