Tag: compliance

Feed: Recent Announcements. Explorer is an operations dashboard providing you with an at-a-glance graphical view of relevant operations data, such as EC2 instance summaries and their patch compliance. With Explorer, you can view your operations data to see where attention, investigation, and remediation may be required. Using Explorer, you can gain insight into your operations issues and sort them by category to focus on issues relevant to you. You can see how these issues trend over time, helping you determine where action is required. Explorer also gives a summary of your EC2 instances and their patch compliance to help you ... Read More

Feed: DivvyCloud. Author: Jamie Gale; Managing identity and access in the cloud is a complex problem, far more complex than it is in traditional, on-premise IT environments guarded by an explicit firewall. As the number of data breaches attributed to illicit or improper access continues to grow, it’s clear that this problem is here to stay. But what makes identity and access management (IAM) an ongoing obstacle for many organizations? And what can organizations do to reduce their risk in this capacity? Let’s start with the basics. First and foremost, what is IAM? According to Gartner, IAM is “the discipline ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. You can now deploy Amazon AppStream 2.0 in the AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region. Deploying AppStream 2.0 in your local region provides users with a more responsive experience and may help support your local data compliance obligations. With this launch, you can deploy General Purpose, Compute Optimized, Memory Optimized, Graphics Pro and Graphics G4 instances to meet the needs of your users.  ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. We recently released an updated version of the Operational Excellence pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework, which includes expanded guidance on operating model, and organizational culture, as well as some other refinements.Gerald Weinberg, in his 1985 book, The Secrets of Consulting, defined The Second Law of Consulting as “No matter how it looks at first, it’s always a people problem.” I appreciate the humor and wit with which he approached software development. Organizations, teams, and team members have always been a significant part of the Operational Excellence (OE) pillar. They now have their own dedicated section ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between VPCs, AWS services, and on-premises applications, securely on the Amazon network. You can now manage your Amazon RDS instances using the Amazon RDS API without requiring an Internet Gateway in your VPC, instead using AWS PrivateLink with private IP connectivity and security groups to meet your compliance requirements.  The Amazon RDS API is a webservice that enables you to set up, operate, scale, pause, and resume your Amazon RDS databases programmatically via AWS Software Development Kits (SDKs). With today’s launch, by using AWS PrivateLink you can invoke management operations using the ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Press Release Oracle Awarded Framework Agreement from Government of Canada New initiative expands cloud options for Oracle-based workloads including Oracle Database, Weblogic, Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, and Siebel Redwood Shores, Calif.—Jul 9, 2020 Oracle announced today the award of a Framework Agreement for the provision of secure cloud services to the Government of Canada. This agreement gives Oracle's Canadian federal government customers the ability to securely store, manage and process sensitive data and applications in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Focused on a “cloud-first” strategy, the Government of Canada uses cloud services as its preferred delivery option ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Tara Madhyastha, Ph.D.. Research is done differently in the cloud than in an on-premises lab. Research labs looking to move computational research to the cloud should start with their workflows. Workflows are well-developed sets of computer analyses that turn raw data into results that researchers can publish. Even though analysis methods can overlap, workflows vary by lab and project to suit the research question. Researchers can benefit from the advantages of moving research workflows to Amazon Web Services (AWS). Moving to AWS is a good time to consider changes to workflows to increase reproducibility, ... Read More

Feed: erwin Expert Blog – erwin, Inc.. Author: Martin Owen. With the help of business process modeling (BPM) organizations can visualize processes and all the associated information identifying the areas ripe for innovation, improvement or reorganization.In the blink of an eye, COVID-19 has disrupted all industries and quickly accelerated their plans for digital transformation. As part of their transformations, businesses are moving quickly from on premise to the cloud and therefore need to create business process models available to everyone within the organization so they understand what data is tied to what applications and what processes are in place.There’s a ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Press Release Oracle Announces Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer Industry’s first fully managed cloud region brings 100% of Oracle’s public cloud services, including Oracle Autonomous Database and Cloud applications, to customer datacenters Pricing starts at only $500K per month, a small fraction of what customers would have to pay for a one-off region from other cloud providers Customers include Nomura Research Institute (NRI) in Japan and Oman Information and Communications Technology Group Redwood Shores, Calif.—Jul 8, 2020 Driven by strong customer demand, Oracle today announced Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer, the industry’s first fully-managed cloud region that ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Press Release NRI Selects Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer First customer to adopt new Oracle Cloud offeringWill be used for mission-critical, high-volume business platform to accelerate digital transformation Redwood Shores, Calif.—Jul 8, 2020 Oracle today announced that Nomura Research Institute (NRI) has selected Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer to run its critical, high-volume business platform used in various industries, including financial, retail, and distribution. NRI will start by moving its SaaS applications for the financial industry, which are used by about 70 percent of the capital markets firms in Japan, from on-premises to an Oracle Dedicated Region ... Read More