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Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; Even with excellent business cloud storage and online backup platforms like Backblaze and Egnyte, a dedicated, physical server can do a lot for your small business. In addition to giving you control over how your data is stored, the best small business server should provide redundancy, expandability and upsides in security. We’ve gathered five servers that do the trick for small business, and another two honorable mentions. It doesn’t matter if you need a basic file server or a machine-learning powerhouse; there’s an option for you here. Key Takeaways: Small business servers can be expensive, ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Anna Millere; Installing a virtual private network on your Nvidia Shield or Shield TV comes with a ton of benefits, such as the ability to access geo-restricted content. Furthermore, opting for a VPN service guarantees more security while you’re streaming, gaming or even torrenting with Kodi on your Nvidia Shield TV. That’s why we put together this list of the best VPN for Nvidia Shield picks. Key Takeaways: Using a premium VPN app on Nvidia Shield will allow you to access more blocked content, such as Netflix U.S. and BBC iPlayer, as well as put a stop ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Amy Donley. By Amy Donley, Global ACE Lead at AWS The APN Customer Engagements (ACE) opportunity validation experience is being updated for AWS Partners to streamline the overall validation process in several key ways: Proactively calling out the most common errors that delay approvals. Allowing you to edit submissions requiring additional information directly in the ACE Pipeline Manager. In addition, we are updating the “Date of last provided update exceeds 2 weeks” opportunity and lead list views to only show items in which you are able to take action. This provides AWS Partners ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . The H-1B visa program is probably the most well-known US federal employment visas, and arguably the most controversial. Businesses say it’s too restrictive. Labor organizations complain that it displaces US workers and lowers their wages. Some politicians use it to appeal to their base with scant ability to fix the process to the benefit of all. But the truth lies somewhere in between these extremes.The following overview of the H-1B visa is accurate as of the publication date. Be aware that the rules and internal business processes of the H-1B visa are complex. Either could be ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. You’re browsing a retailer’s website looking for BBQs. The next time you login to the site you get a discount offer on BBQs. But in the meantime, you’ve bought one for full price at a physical store. Sounds familiar?Imagine instead that the retailer recognised your interest in BBQs and immediately sent an offer to your mobile encouraging you to purchase one either online or in one of their physical stores. Helpful to you, and sales, plus loyalty driving to them.Or better still, knowing that you have now redeemed the BBQ offer, they then see BBQ food in ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. Customers needing to keep an Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) instance stopped for more than 7 days, look for ways to efficiently re-stop the database after being automatically started by Amazon RDS. If the database is started and there is no mechanism to stop it; customers start to pay for the instance’s hourly cost. Moreover, customers with database licensing agreements could incur penalties for running beyond their licensed cores/users. Stopping and starting a DB instance is faster than creating a DB snapshot, and then restoring the snapshot. However, if you plan to keep the Amazon ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Jon Gitlin; A number of your organization’s apps offer pre-built integrations. Your CRM may offer native integrations with Slack, Quickbooks, and MailChimp; your marketing automation tool may provide integrations with Salesforce, On24, and Gmail; your business communications platform could have integrations with Zoom, Google Drive, Salesforce—and so on, and so forth. As you review the variety of native integrations your apps provide, you should stop to consider whether they’re worth implementing versus those provided by a middleware, 3rd-party platform. To help guide you in your decision, we’ll walk you through the pros and cons ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Casey Burns. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) convened the National Forum on COVID-19 Vaccine to share and discuss best practices to help advance the goals of the National Strategy for the COVID-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness. The forum brought representatives together from across the US government, including tribal, state, local, and territorial leaders, public health, healthcare systems, national and community based non-governmental organizations, education, private industry, unions, and faith-based organizations involved in the response to COVID-19. Amazon Web Services (AWS) participated in the forum as a panelist for “Day 2 ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Sandy Carter. Diversity matters. Governments, countries, cities, agencies, and more recognize the value that diversity brings. According to McKinsey, companies with ethnic or cultural diversity are 33% more likely to outperform on profitability. With this in mind, I am thrilled to announce the global launch of the Think Big for Small Business Program. The Think Big for Small Business Program provides small and minority-owned businesses (MOBs) public sector partners in Registered and Select tiers with provisional access to APN Select and Advanced Tier benefits through a set of requirements proportional their size. The program ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Aleksandar Kochovski; Swiss Privacy Laws: The TL;DR Version There are three major data protection laws governing the processing of personal data in Switzerland. The first is Article 13 of the Swiss Federal Constitution (no, not that Article 13). The second is the Federal Act of Data Protection (DPA). Lastly, Switzerland is a close partner of the European Union (despite not being part of it), thus Swiss companies must also adhere to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We’ll look into each of these laws to see how they affect you, the user, when you’re dealing with a ... Read More