Tag: government

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Derek Belt. The AWS Partner Network (APN) is the global partner program for Amazon Web Services (AWS). We enable APN Partners to build, market, and sell their AWS-based offerings, and we help customers identify top APN Partners that can deliver on core business objectives.To receive APN program designations such as AWS Competency, AWS Managed Services Provider (MSP), and AWS Service Delivery, organizations must undergo rigorous technical validation and assessment of their AWS solutions and practices. These designations help customers team up with specialized APN Partners that can provide value-added services and solutions. Guidance from these ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: Professor Rainer Schmidt. Social information systems – how we share information – use both public systems such as social media and private systems internal to organizations such as internal blogs and wikis. These systems increasingly influence opinion-forming processes in societies and organizations, and supplement and sometimes replace traditional media such as newspapers, radio, and TV. The strength of social information systems lies in their ability to present previously unestablished opinions and viewpoints as fact, and can be used to disseminate false information, leading to polarization. The Munich University of Applied Science (MUAS) ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: Phil Silver. Our cities are becoming smarter and faster every day, and as the modern city evolves so does its transportation offerings. By migrating transportation services to the cloud, cities can evolve to meet constituents’ transportation needs. To meet a modern-day travelers’ expectations, the cloud drives innovation by providing real-time analytics and predictive modeling that can make transportation easier and faster. Amazon Web Services (AWS) works with leading transportation technologies to help build cloud solutions for airports, seaports, mass transit, tollways, municipal planning, parking authorities, motor vehicle departments, traffic management departments, and ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Katharine Marais; Novel fintech like cryptocurrency and blockchain have disrupted and fundamentally reimagined such previously eminent and staid realities such as the government monopoly on currency-creation. As fintech has risen to prominence, an unlikely mascot has emerged to represent the convenience enabled by novel financial technologies; mobile banking ads have portrayed ballerinas paying for goods while performing- logging into Visa or Chase apps from the wings, or hilariously, paying for goods while doing a “grand jete between two grand pianos,” in one tongue-in-cheek commercial by Chase. They portray a shared sentiment: that we are ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: Michael Wasielewski. Customers with stringent regulatory or risk-averse considerations may look to Zero Trust architectures to refactor legacy applications or deploy new ones. This blog will help you evaluate your application architecture against Zero Trust principles and use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build secure and scalable architectures.What is Zero Trust? Zero Trust security is a model where application components or microservices are considered discrete from each other and no component or microservice trusts any other. This manifests as a security posture designed to consider input from any source as potentially malicious ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; One of my favorite parts of PuppetConf is hearing what people are doing with Puppet technology. It’s always a learning experience. You’ll be learning in the hallway, at the events, and of course during the sessions. I love hearing about people pushing Puppet technology in ways I hadn’t considered, or combining it with other tools to make solutions to a larger set of problems. This year, we have several talks lined up to expand your knowledge of Puppet and take you deeper into the capabilities and extension points of our tech. Allow me ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: Teresa Carlson. The ubiquity of always-on, high performance infrastructure is fueling the rapid pace of innovation. Now more than ever, government and private companies can take advantage of affordable and scalable systems to test new ideas, evolve more quickly to meet the needs of their citizens and customers, and operate more securely. And yet, many institutions have not started on their digital journey because they lack a workforce with the advanced skills they need to drive transformational change. In recent months, I have had the opportunity to meet with a diverse collection ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; After weeks of thoughtfully reviewing talk proposals with the rest of our PuppetConf talk committee, I'm thrilled to announce our first round of speakers and the initial agenda for PuppetConf 2017. This year, we're hosting PuppetConf from 10-12 October in beautiful San Francisco, California. I hope I'll see you there! If you haven't been to PuppetConf before, here's what's in store. We bring the Puppet community together for two-plus days of amazing collaboration and hands-on learning. Our lineup of talks, sessions, demos and informal networking all help our community members learn how to ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: AWS Public Sector Blog Team. The U.S. Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) successfully migrated five applications to AWS GovCloud (US) under the Procurement Integrated Enterprise Environment (PIEE) hosting support contract with help from Credence Management Solutions, LLC., an AWS Partner Network (APN) consulting partner in the AWS Public Sector Partner Program.By migrating to AWS GovCloud (US) – Amazon’s cloud regions designed to host sensitive data, regulated workloads, and the most stringent U.S. government security and compliance requirements – DLA now has improved security, infrastructure stability, application performance, and efficiencies in infrastructure management via ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Iain Stewart. “When you’re delivering so much cyclical activity and hiring thousands of people a year, there’s so much work that needs to happen just to stand still,” says Debbie Adler, HR Director General at the DWP. If the idea of "running to stand still" sounds familiar, that’s because issues like pay freezes, budget cuts and Brexit uncertainty have created serious HR headaches throughout the public sector. Then there’s the added pressure of digitalising services across multiple channels whilst continuing to meet citizens’ expectations, which adds extra complexity. No wonder staff turnover has reached up to ... Read More