Tag: Technical

Feed: DivvyCloud. Author: Jamie Gale; The 2020 Cloud Security Executive Summit, which focused on the future of cloud-native security, is a wrap! While the constraints of 2020 prevented us from having an in-person event, we took this as an opportunity to extend the reach of what’s usually a more intimate thought leadership event. We had the pleasure of hosting (safely and virtually) over 570 cloud security enthusiasts, each of whom contributed to an incredible and engaging experience.  We were fortunate to have speakers from AWS, GCP, Spotify, Allstate, ESG, and more, who shared their collective cloud knowledge and experience with ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: AWS Public Sector Blog Team. Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent is back for 2020, and for the first time it’s all virtual and free. AWS re:Invent has become the world’s premier cloud learning event, and this year, we’ll feature sessions focused on how public sector organizations are using the cloud to improve the lives of constituents, patients, customers, and more. At re:Invent 2020, attendees can expect to learn about AWS services from recognized world experts, focus on key services that matter most to your organizations, get technical questions answered on the spot, and get ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Sandy Gibbs. Helping customers is my passion. Having a good understanding of the hot-fix process can help you keep your SAS environment running smoothly. To help you better manage your environment, I am writing a series of blog posts with best practices and tips to successfully administer SAS hot fixes for SAS®9 environments. This first entry in the series focuses on the SAS Hot Fix Analysis, Download and Deployment Tool. Importance of installing hot fixes During my time helping SAS customers, I have seen many sites that did not apply hot fixes correctly or at all, ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. AWS Glue provides a serverless environment to prepare (extract and transform) and load large amounts of datasets from a variety of sources for analytics and data processing with Apache Spark ETL jobs. This posts discusses a new AWS Glue Spark runtime optimization that helps developers of Apache Spark applications and ETL jobs, big data architects, data engineers, and business analysts scale their data processing and batch jobs running on AWS Glue automatically. Customers use Spark for a wide variety of ETL and analytics workloads on datasets with diverse characteristics. They want to ensure fast and ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Larry Bowles. By Larry Bowles, Cloud Chief at Red River A successful cloud strategy doesn’t rely on one person, or one department to execute—it takes a true team effort. In 2019, Red River Technology came to this realization, broke down internal silos, and leveraged talent across the company to better deliver for our customers. This was due in large part to our participation the AWS Partner Transformation Program (PTP). In this post, I will walk you through Red River’s company-wide experience going through the PTP. I’ll share our challenges, realizations, and outcomes of ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Oded Rosenmann. By Oded Rosenmann, SaaS Business Lead at AWS The software-as-as-service (SaaS) delivery model has become increasingly appealing to a wide range of companies. While new and existing application providers are anxious to reap the rewards that are associated with this delivery model, the journey to SaaS can have a large impact on a business. For many, the move to SaaS represents a significant transformational event that requires companies to examine all the moving parts of their business. How products are sold, marketed, built, supported, and monetized—these are amongst a long list ... Read More

Feed: Matillion. Author: Ashley Lozito; It is no surprise that with the explosion of data, both technical and operational challenges pose obstacles to getting to insights faster. Many enterprises have employed cloud data platforms to help provide the power and scale needed to deal with the varieties and velocity of data sources. But having data in the cloud does not provide insights. For that, you need data transformation.Cloud data transformation reduces the time it takes to join together siloed data, denormalize it, enrich it, and apply business logic. This puts the data into an analytics-ready state so that businesses can ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. Recovering your mission-critical workloads from outages is essential for business continuity and providing services to customers with little or no interruption. That’s why many customers replicate their mission-critical workloads in multiple places using a Disaster Recovery (DR) strategy suited for their needs. With AWS, a customer can achieve this by deploying multi Availability Zone High-Availability setup or a multi-region setup by replicating critical components of an application to another region.  Depending on the RPO and RTO of the mission-critical workload, the requirement for disaster recovery ranges from simple backup and restore, to multi-site, active-active, setup. In ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Erin Gengo, Robert Bloom. As we reimagined data management across all of Tableau, we identified five pillars for the  migration process framework that dovetailed well with our Snowflake selection criteria, and would thereby increase trust and confidence in the data that everyone uses. These pillars are: staffing, governance, authentication, communication, and documentation.  We’ll first discuss staffing, governance, and authentication in this post, highlighting some key lessons learned, unexpected issues with responses, and recommendations to consider when migrating and tackling data sets—large or small, simple or complex. Staffing We don’t want to sugar-coat the complex undertaking of ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Lidia Hovhannisyan. The business environment is currently depicted as a highly competitive one, and to survive, one must come up with ingenious tactics to remain relevant. The current era of big data catches many business owners by surprise, with overwhelming volumes of information. But to remain relevant in their field, these company executives need to develop a way to understand and take full control of such information to derive the best value for their organization. For a person looking to make data-driven decisions, other than relying solely on their gut, you might find it useful ... Read More