Tag: storage

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Rafael Cordon. At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ministerio de Educación de Guatemala (the Guatemala Ministry of Education) made the decision to close public schools to mitigate the spread of the virus. The closing of schools gave the Ministry’s authorities the opportunity to implement new solutions to enable students, teachers, and parents to continue with the education experience. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner ITZ Data (AWS Advanced Consulting Partner / Government Competency), with support from UNICEF and the Canadian Embassy in Guatemala, helped the Ministry launch Mineduc Digital—the country’s first online platform where ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Farhad Jahangirov. Applications running on LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) stack are ubiquitous—WordPress alone represents 38% of all content management systems. Other popular CMS applications such as Drupal and Joomla also run on LAMP as well as Moodle, a widely used learning management system (LMS). Because of the popularity of these applications, public sector organisations such as educational institutions should protect their business continuity by implementing disaster recovery (DR) solutions: policies, tools, and procedures to help the recovery or continuation of technology infrastructure and systems following a disaster. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Professional ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Thousands of customers are building their data lakes on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). You can use AWS Lake Formation to build your data lakes easily—in a matter of days as opposed to months. However, there are still some difficult challenges to address with your data lakes: Supporting streaming updates and deletes in your data lakes, for example, database replication, and supporting privacy regulations such as GDPR and CCPA Achieving fine-grained secure sharing not only with table-level or column-level access control, but with row-level access control Optimizing the layout of various tables and files on ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Charlie Chase. Thanks to COVID-19, companies have experienced how challenging it can be to plan and maneuver their supply chains around an unforeseen disruption. While the pandemic was a once-in-a-lifetime event (we hope), the unfortunate truth is that less severe events have overwhelmed or undermined demand and supply planning in the past -- and will likely continue to do so. The biggest learning from this disruption? Legacy ERP (enterprise resource planning) systems are no longer up to the task of getting supply where it's needed in a timely and cost-effective manner. To achieve accurate forecasting and ... Read More

Feed: Journey to AI Blog; Author: Cristina McComic; AI adoption is critical for business success in the changing, competitive market. A HIMMS and IBM study found that 64% of respondents said their organizations placed a “critical” or “high” strategic priority on AI. However, many organizations are still reluctant to fully adopt AI into their processes and decision-making for fear of the unknown. “To many who aren’t data scientists, AI is still a black box and that scares us,” says Kelly Combs, Director of Emerging Technologies Risk Services at KPMG. So how do organizations go about establishing trust in their AI? The ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Robert Cull; Pretty much everyone is familiar with some form of cloud storage. It lets you easily store and access your files over the internet. Aside from just storing your content online, many providers also let you sync content directly between your desktop and cloud storage service. This lets you keep exact copies of your files both in the cloud and on your device. Although this handy feature can boost your productivity, unfortunately not all cloud storage providers offer the best security or sync features. Finding the best cloud storage with sync can be daunting, so we’ve ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Erin Chapple. As our customers move beyond immediate crisis needs, such as enabling remote work, many are accelerating cloud adoption to increase competitive advantage and stay more digitally resilient. Enabling an agile, scalable, high-performing, and reliable infrastructure is critical to long-term success. Microsoft is committed to continuous innovation in Azure IaaS capabilities to help customers achieve these goals. Today, we are announcing new updates to our Azure infrastructure portfolio that help address a wide range of customer needs. Increase agility with access to more choices and flexibility Being responsive to rapidly changing business requirements is ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Ben Stockton; The internet has changed the way that we work as individuals, making it far easier for us to collaborate on projects as a team. Cloud storage is a powerful way for a group of like-minded people to access the same files, whether they’re for business or personal use. Many cloud storage services are designed with individual users in mind, but that doesn’t make them a good solution for multiple users. Although some providers allow you to share files with other users, they’re not always the perfect solution for collaboration. To help you find the best ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Colin Marden. By Colin Marden, Solutions Architect at AWS Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors are increasingly important for financial institutions as they look to assess portfolio risk, meet investment mandates, align with customer values, and report on the sustainability of their portfolios. According to a BNP Paribas-sponsored survey, 66 percent of asset managers and institutional investors identified the difficulty of ESG data integration as one of the biggest barriers for asset managers who want to get started with sustainable investing. In response to this challenge, Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched a curated ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Amiram Mizne. This morning, Microsoft and Redis Labs jointly announced the general availability of Azure Cache for Redis, Enterprise tiers. The service has been in public preview since last October, and is already serving customers with production Redis workloads. The GA release is now enhanced with previews of active geo-replication (with up to 99.999% availability), and disk persistence with recovery while being rolled out to an increasing number of Azure regions.  Enterprise tiers: highlights The following Enterprise and Flash tier capabilities are now generally available: Open source Redis 6.0: faster, more secure, and easier to useZone ... Read More