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Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Alexa Alley. The AWS Service Delivery Program is a global program that highlights top AWS Partner Network (APN) Consulting Partners who have demonstrated expertise and technical proficiency delivering AWS services.As part of the onboarding process when joining the AWS Service Delivery Program, APN Partners must go through a technical audit of their experience delivering Amazon Web Services (AWS) to end customers. This audit is conducted by internal technical experts who validate the APN Partner’s knowledge and capabilities for a specific AWS service. To help APN Partners better understand this process and our designation requirements, we are ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Jignesh Desai. By Karthik Mohan and Rajeev Rangachari, Senior Architects at InfosysBy Jignesh Desai, Partner Solutions Architect at AWSIn an era where always-on connectivity, the Internet of Things (IoT), and unstructured data in the public domain are the new normal, the ability of companies to compete and differentiate rests on their ability to leverage data and analytics. Winning companies take advantage of the wealth of information available to create valuable insights and act on them. We call these organizations analytics-driven enterprises, and they use actionable insights to deliver on the promise of data ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. The Singapore campus of James Cook University is owned by James Cook University Australia, which is ranked in the top 2%* of universities in the world. James Cook University Australia established its Singapore campus in 2003 to internationalize its activities. It now offers a suite of university-level programs at the Singapore campus covering the areas of Business, Information Technology, Psychology, Education, Accounting, Arts, Aquaculture, Environmental Science, Games Design, Tourism, and Hospitality.In 2003, the Singapore campus opened with around 300 students, two support staff, and basic IT infrastructure. Fast forward to 2018, ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. Based on high demand from our AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners, we are excited to introduce the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Navigate Program to help APN Partners become successful in their business differentiation journey on AWS.The AWS Navigate Program provides a prescriptive path for APN Partners to build a specialized practice on AWS. It offers APN Partners the guidance to become AWS experts and deploy innovative solutions on behalf of AWS Customers. We are launching AWS Navigate for Contact Center, Microsoft Workloads, End User Computing, and Financial Services, with more tracks coming later ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. Listen now on SoundCloud: AWS Public Sector Podcast – episode 5: Thinking on a Planetary Scale with AWS Health & Science Leader, Jamie Baker [9:37] Planetary-scale analysis. Asking bigger questions of data. Pulling space closer to humanity. It’s all part of a growing trend of cloud adoption in the field of planetary science. And with cloud computing affording a once-unimaginable reach into space, paired with the capacity to analyze petabytes of Earth-observation data, our customers have remarkable, new stories to tell. This is how the stars aligned for Earth & Space on ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Phil de Valence. By Jordan Martz, Director of Technology Solutions at AttunityBy Clive Bearman, Director of Product Marketing at AttunityBy Phil de Valence, Solutions Architect for Mainframe Modernization at AWSIt is estimated that 80 percent of the world’s corporate data resides on or originates from mainframes, according to IBM. Historically, mainframes have hosted core-business processes, applications, and data, all of which are blocked in these rigid and expensive mainframe systems. Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Attunity can liberate mainframe data in real-time, enabling customers to exploit its full business value for data lakes, ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. While the fires spread in Sonoma County in October 2017, the focus was on fighting the flames that burned more than 110,000 acres and on helping the citizens displaced from their homes get access to emergency response resources. In addition to shelter, food, and water, time was another important resource.“I just love waiting in line,” said no one in the history of the world. Citizens have high expectations for government services, whether at the state or municipal level, especially in the aftermath of a disaster. Immediately following the Sonoma County fires, ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Andrew Kloman. By Andrew Kloman, Partner Solutions Architect at AWSThe time has never been better to build a thriving business on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Moving to the AWS cloud provides companies with more agility, elasticity, cost savings, and the ability to expand their business footprint while developing a global reach to customers. AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners have the opportunity to see a 6X – 11X+ multiplier uplift over AWS spend when delivering a comprehensive suite of value-added services to customers. In this post, I will give APN Consulting Partners an overview of ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Terence Finan. If a company is moving or monitoring a fluid, especially water, it’s likely that Pentair is involved. Pentair’s solutions span a wide range of industries, from energy, food and beverage, and manufacturing, to infrastructure, commercial, and aquaculture.With many of its products installed in relatively remote locations, Pentair is no stranger to developing connected systems. However, in the past, each of those solutions was typically custom-built, leading to long development times, a mismatch of different technologies, and an inability to reuse existing solution components and skill sets across the company’s areas of ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Sameer Kumar Vasanthapuram. By Rich Vorwaller, Sr. Product Manager at Alert LogicBy Sameer Kumar Vasanthapuram, Partner Solutions Architect at AWSYou have probably heard the proverb that an “ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” It’s a quote from Ben Franklin discussing fire prevention for his home town of Philadelphia. Before the 20th century, fires were a major hazard to urban areas. Today, fires cause nowhere near the scale of destruction they used to. Why is that? Because we have come a long way in not only early detection, but also in ... Read More