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9 Helpful Tools for Building a Data Pipeline
Companies create tons of disparate data throughout their organizations through applications, databases, files and streaming sources. Moving the data from one data source to another is a complex and tedious process. Ingesting different types of data into a common...
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Data Center Migration to the Cloud: Why Your Business Should Do it and How to Plan for it
Data center migration is ideal for businesses who are looking to exit or reduce on-premises data centers, migrate workloads as is, modernize apps, or leave another cloud. Executing migrations, however, is no small task, and as a result, there are many enterprise...
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3 Advantages to Embracing the DevOps Movement (Plus Bonus Pipeline Info!)
What is DevOps? As a result of the increase in cloud adoption across all industries, understanding practices and tools that help organizations’ software run efficiently is essential to how their cloud environment and organization operate. However, many companies do...
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Cloud Automation for I.T. Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) in Healthcare
It has been said that the “hero of a successful digital transformation is GRC.” The ISACA website states, “to successfully manage the risk in digital transformation you need a modern approach to governance, risk and regulatory compliance.” For GRC program development,...
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Why You Need to Modernize Your Media Supply Chain
The demand for direct-to-consumer services and media content is continuously growing, and with that, audiences are raising their expectations of media and entertainment companies. Agile and innovative companies, such as Netflix, YouTube, and Amazon Prime, have...
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Why You Should Invest in Managed Cloud Security Services
Cloud adoption throughout all industries has become incredibly pervasive in recent years. With cloud management as a relatively newer concept, business organizations may struggle to understand each aspect that is required to effectively run a cloud environment. One...
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Why Media Companies Should Adopt the Cloud
The Advantages of Cloud Computing for Media & Entertainment We are living in a revolutionary era of digital content and media consumption. As such, media companies are reckoning with the new challenges that come with new times. One of the biggest changes in the...
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Back to the Basics: The 3 Cloud Computing Service Delivery Models
In recent years, the adoption of cloud computing services has increased tremendously, especially given the onset of the pandemic. According to a report from the International Data Corporation (IDC), the public cloud services market grew 24.1% year over year in 2020....
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An Introduction to AWS Proton
As a business scales, so does its software and infrastructure. As desired outcomes adapt and become more complex that can quickly cause a lot of overhead and difficulty for platform teams to manage over time and these challenges often limit the benefits of embracing...
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Why Cloud Services are Here to Stay for Media & Entertainment
During the COVID-19 pandemic, media and entertainment (M&E) organizations accelerated their need to undertake a digital transformation. As we approach a post-pandemic world, M&E companies are realizing that their digital transformation is no longer just a...
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Simple & Secure Data Lakes with AWS Lake Formation
Data is the lifeblood of business. To help companies visualize their data, guide business decisions, and enhance their business operations requires employing machine learning services. But where to begin. Today, tremendous amounts of data are created by companies...
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Riding the Digital Transformation: Why Enterprises Are Reengineering Their Cloud Infrastructure
Post 2020, how are you approaching the cloud? The rapid and unexpected digital transformation of 2020 forced enterprises worldwide to quickly mobilize workers using cloud resources. Now, as the world returns to an altered normal, it's time for organizations to revisit...
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Managed Cloud Service: Optimize, Reduce Costs, and Efficiently Achieve your Business Goals
Cloud adoption is becoming more popular across all industries, as it has proven to be reliable, efficient, and more secure as a software service. As cloud adoption increases, companies are faced with the issue of managing these new environments and their operations,...
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6 Reasons the Cloud Might Not be What You Think it Is
A lot of enterprises migrate to the public cloud because they see everyone else doing it. And while you should stay up on the latest and greatest innovations – which often happen in the cloud – you need to be aware of the realities of the cloud and understand...
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Horizontal Scaling vs. Vertical Scaling: Choosing the Right One
If the pandemic and our business applications have one thing in common, it’s the difficulty in preparing for the future. Just as we could not foresee the oncome of the virus, we cannot always precisely determine the capacity required to run our applications...
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