Tag: Amazon Web Services

Feed: DivvyCloud. Author: David Mundy; by David Mundy | Aug 15, 2019 | Product Information Feature Release 19.3: Secure S3 Buckets, Microsoft Teams, & Compliance Heat Map  We are excited to announce our newest release of 2019 which continues our mission to help you effectively leverage CSP security and management tools like AWS’ “GET BucketPolicyStatus”... by David Mundy | Aug 14, 2019 | Blog Post, Public Sector, Security Government Institutions Risk Data Breaches by Avoiding Cloud Security Automation DivvyCloud co-founder and CTO, Chris DeRamus, recently published an article with HomelandSecurityToday.us on why cloud automation is the antidote for government agencies ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Joe Furbee. Editor’s note: This is the first article in a series by Conor Hogan, a Solutions Architect at SAS, on SAS and database and storage options on cloud technologies. This article covers the SAS offerings available to connect to and interact with the various database options available in Amazon Web Services. As companies move their computing to the cloud, they are also moving their storage to the cloud. Just like compute in the cloud, data storage in the cloud is elastic and responds to demand while only paying for what you use. As more technologies ... Read More

Feed: Cloud Data Transformation Software | Matillion. Author: Arawan Gajajiva, Solution Architect; “How secure is my data in the cloud?” That’s been the first question on everyone’s mind since the dawn of cloud computing. Think back even further to the early days of and e-commerce data security. Consumers want to keep their sensitive payment and personally identifiable information (PII) data safe. And they were initially reluctant to give up their information, even for the convenience of shopping and banking online. Eventually, people gained peace of mind that their data would be secure, first in on-premises servers and with data security ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Ashia Johnson. By Ashia Johnson, Program Marketing Manager at AWSThe AWS Competency Program helps customers choose top AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners to team up with by validating organizations that can provide value-added services and solutions. AWS Competencies are built to go beyond the meaning of the word “competent,” as this is one of the toughest designations an APN Partner can achieve and maintain. Guidance from these skilled professionals leads to better business and bigger results that help Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers at any stage of their cloud adoption journey. Learn more about the ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. A large EMEA company recently decided to migrate their on-premises IBM Netezza data warehouse to Amazon Redshift. Given the volume of data (270TB uncompressed and more than 27K tables), the number of interconnected systems that made use of this data (more than 4.5K business processes), and the zero downtime requirements, we understood that the project would be a challenge. Since the company planned to decommission the data center where the data warehouse was deployed in less than a year’s time, there were also time constraints in place.The data warehouse is a central piece for the ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. I am pleased to announce that Teradata appears yet again in the Constellation ShortList™ for “Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Relational Database Management Systems.” If you’re not already familiar, Constellation Research periodically publishes (small) lists of vendors across various market areas which the analysts deem “relevant to early adopters." Constellation’s research is compiled through conversations with early adopter clients, independent analysis and briefings with vendors and partners.The “Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Relational Database Management Systems” Constellation ShortList presents their pick of relational database management systems that are available both as software and as database services across multiple public clouds. Teradata is one of ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. Join us for APN TechDive 2019, a virtual conference for members of the AWS Partner Network (APN) community.On October 16, 2019, we will host a full day of technical sessions exclusively for APN Partners, as well as live Q&A with Amazon Web Services (AWS) experts, and a virtual AWS GameDay event to test your organization’s AWS knowledge and skills. Don’t miss APN TechDive and your chance to learn about AWS services, ask questions of AWS experts, and apply your knowledge in a real AWS environment. We’ll see you there! See the full ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. CDSM Interactive Solutions Ltd (CDSM), founded in 1998, is a multi-faceted EdTech company that provides bespoke e-learning services and Thinqi, a next generation learning management system (LMS), to the state education sector. We spent some time with two of CDSM’s more senior colleagues, Steve Finch, Head of Marketing, and Darren Wallace, Chief Technical Officer, both of whom have been with CDSM since the early 2000s.Finch says CDSM’s mission has remained the same over the years, “We want to improve the life chances of young people by providing equal access to high ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Arun Kannan. By Arun Kannan, Partner Solutions Architect at AWSBy Dipankar Biswas, Principal Architect at Cognizant Technology SolutionsBy Anirban De, Principal Architect at Cognizant Technology SolutionsMany organizations are increasingly looking to migrate existing, on-premises enterprise data warehouse systems to cloud-based data warehouse systems such as Amazon Redshift. While migrating to a cloud-based data warehouse, one of the most important goals is to move away from database-stored procedures and create a modular architecture by decoupling code from data persistence components. The business logic that traditionally resided within the database can then be implemented outside ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Severalnines; Complex, inflexible architectures, redundancy and out-of-date technology, are common problems for companies facing data to cloud migration.  We look to the “clouds,” hoping that we will find there a magic solution to improve operational speed and performance, better workload and scalability, less prone and less complicated architectures. We hope to make our database administrator's life more comfortable. But is it really always a case?  As more enterprises are moving to the cloud, the hybrid model is actually becoming more popular. The hybrid model is seen as a safe model for many businesses.  In fact, it's ... Read More