Tag: Pricing

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Jon Gitlin; Sales reps only spend 35% of their time on selling-related activities. The rest of it is likely occupied by repetitive and unproductive tasks, like data entry, searching for information across applications, etc. You can prevent your sales team from performing these time-intensive and less fruitful activities by using sales automation. In the process, you’ll be rewarded with a shorter sales cycle, a higher close rate, and better all-around experiences for your prospects, customers, and employees. So how, exactly, can you perform sales automation? And what are all the benefits you can expect ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. If Security Hub is already enabled for your AWS account, after running a patch scan in Patch Manager, patch compliance items generated based on your patch rules will automatically start showing up as findings in Security Hub. Customers who do not have Security Hub enabled can navigate to the Security Hub onboarding page or Patch Manager settings to enable it. When this feature is enabled, Patch Manager will create a finding for every instance found non-compliant against patch rules during patching. You can then aggregate findings across your accounts using Security Hub to view all instances not ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Welcome to Microsoft Ignite! The world has fundamentally changed in 2020. Individuals have had to adapt to working digitally and independently. Teamwork and collaboration are done entirely through screens and entire organizations have become remote work forces. “We’ve seen two years’ worth of digital transformation in two months. From remote teamwork and learning, to sales and customer service, to critical cloud infrastructure and security—we are working alongside customers every day to help them adapt and stay open for business in a world of remote everything.” Satya Nadella, Apr 29th, ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Eric Doerr. In the last six months, COVID-19 has changed almost everything about the way we approach work and security. Now, you have to meet the needs of a remote workforce, support rapidly evolving business requirements, and steer your organization to the next normal – even without actually knowing what that normal will entail. At the same time, cybersecurity is more crucial than ever, as bad actors exploit the opportunity to prey on fears and weaknesses. On the surface, all of this may seem intimidating. But with this kind of dramatic change also comes the ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. In the world we live in today, companies need to quickly react to change—and to anticipate it. Customers tell us that their reliance on data has never been greater than what it is today. To improve your decision-making, you have two types of data transformation needs: data agility, the speed at which data turns into insights, and data transparency, the need to present insights to decision makers. Going forward, we expect data transformation projects to become a centerpiece in every organization, big or small.Furthermore, applications are migrating to the cloud faster than ever. Applications need ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Ben Peven. This post was contributed by Dnyanesh Digraskar, Senior Partner SA, High Performance Computing; Linda Hedges, Principal SA, High Performance ComputingIn this blog, we define and demonstrate the scalability metrics for a typical real-world application using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software from Siemens, Simcenter STAR-CCM+, running on a High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This scenario demonstrates the scaling of an external aerodynamics CFD case with 97 million cells to over 4,000 cores of Amazon EC2 C5n.18xlarge instances using the Simcenter STAR-CCM+ software. We also discuss the effects of scaling ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. If you are currently running SSRS on Amazon EC2, you can now save costs by running SSRS directly on the same RDS DB instance as your SQL Server database. SSRS is also already available on Amazon RDS for SQL Server 2017 on both the Standard and Enterprise editions. Amazon RDS for SQL Server makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale SQL Server deployments in the cloud. See Amazon RDS for SQL Server Pricing for pricing details and regional availability ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is an important aspect of today’s technology world, and processing data in compliance with GDPR is a necessity for those who implement solutions within the AWS public cloud. One article of GDPR is the “right to erasure” or “right to be forgotten” which may require you to implement a solution to delete specific users’ personal data.In the context of the AWS big data and analytics ecosystem, every architecture, regardless of the problem it targets, uses Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) as the core storage service. Despite its versatility and ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Ray Rogers. The Water Institute of the Gulf (Water Institute) runs its storm surge and wave analysis models on Amazon Web Services (AWS)—a task that sometimes requires large bursts of compute power. These models are critical in forecasting hurricane storm surge event (like Hurricane Laura in August 2020), evaluating flood risk for Louisiana and other coastal states, helping governments prepare for future conditions, and managing the coast proactively. Unfortunately, all of this can be exacerbated by the land loss problems plaguing Louisiana. The United States Geological Survey calculates that the state loses the equivalent ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Nader Nanjiani. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, only 60 percent of college students receive a degree within six years. Universities—like Portland State University (PSU) and Oklahoma State University (OSU-OKC)—are using data lakes for analytics and machine learning to improve academic achievement by helping students reach their educational goals faster.And now, with the launch of an Education Pricing Program (EPP) for Amazon Simple Storage (Amazon S3), education institutions can use storage to build a data lake for up to 45 percent off public pricing for the S3 One Zone–Infrequent Access and S3 ... Read More