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2nd Watch EKS Blueprints
Organizations are modernizing their infrastructure and applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to innovate and respond quickly to changing demands. They are doing this by containerizing their workloads and services on Kubernetes using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).
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Elite Snowflake Consulting Partner Infographic
2nd Watch is proud to be a strategic Snowflake consulting partner. Our trained and certified SnowPros have experience accelerating speed to business insights, maximizing performance, and controlling costs, making us the Snowflake consulting partner of choice for clients across a range of industries and use cases.
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AWS FinServ Modernization eBook
To meet new demands, financial services organizations are refining their cloud operations. The goal is to enhance business models, concentrating on optimizing the customer experience with increased focus and agility. Through modernization, financial services organizations gain greater access to the technology required to accelerate growth and differentiation and attract the highest caliber of talent.
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Modernizing Legacy Architecture
Pulse and 2nd Watch surveyed 100 technology executives to understand where they see the application migration and modernization industry heading, what they prioritize, and how they will focus on application modernization to ensure a digital-first strategy that accelerates digital transformation.
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Why It Pays to Modernize Legacy Applications
When it comes to IT, keeping up with the times may mean modernizing legacy applications to take full advantage of cloud benefits and breathe new life into your technology environment.
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6 pillars of a data and analytics framework
This article answers some of the most important questions organizations need to ask themselves when developing and deploying data driven solutions.
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APPLICATION MODERNIZATION & DEVOPS SERVICES
Learn more about 2nd Watch Application Modernization and DevOps Services.
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Cloud MSP 2nd Watch sees momentum in media sector as data and app modernization practices grow
Since adding its Google Cloud practice, the provider has seen momentum in this area. 2nd Watch aims to be a key partner to its customers as they plan for business transformation.
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Enterprises are missing out by not optimizing cloud spending, not going multicloud
Across the global infrastructure-as-a-service market, businesses are missing out on significant savings by sticking to on-demand pricing
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The fading relevance of service provider categories and the implications for vendor partner program
Traditional vendor partner programs were not designed with digital transformation in mind, and the categorizations do not seem to reflect how service providers go to market.
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Managed Services Market Map 2021
Enterprises increasingly regard managed services as the solution to many of the challenges they face in executing and managing cloud environments.
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7 Major Roadblocks In DevOps eBook
If your organization is thinking about – or in the process of - implementing DevOps practices, read this eBook to discover seven roadblocks they may encounter and how to avoid them.
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Devax Workshop Datasheet
The journey from waterfall methodology and monolithic applications to agile, cloud-native development does not happen overnight. Teams and individuals need to be equipped with continuous cloud-native training to reap the rewards of continuous modernization
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What is Application Modernization? eBook
Application modernization is the process of migrating an incumbent or legacy software application to modern development patterns, paradigms and platforms with the explicit purpose of improving business value.
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Enterprise Data Maturity
Our survey on enterprise data maturity shows most organizations want to make better use of their data but lack the resources, skills and vision to be successful. See what else we uncovered.
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How to Federate Amazon Redshift Access with Okta
Discover how to federate access to Amazon Redshift using Okta as your IdP, passing user and group information through to the database at login.
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How to Federate Amazon Redshift Access with Azure Active Directory
Discover how to federate access to Amazon Redshift using Azure Active Directory as your IdP, passing user and group information through to the database at login.
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Intelligent Cloud Governance: The Foundation for Successful Cloud Adoption eBook
A cloud governance framework is critical to the success of cloud adoption, enabling businesses to extract the full benefits of the cloud. Discover 9 ways cloud governance lays the foundation for successful cloud adoption.
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Cloud Governance: Why It Is Critical to the Success of Cloud Adoption
All organizations need a set of protocols for utilizing cloud resources efficiently, effectively, and securely. A cloud governance framework enables you to extract the full benefits of the cloud.
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Cloud Migration & Governance Thoughts: AWS Landing Zone & the Infrastructure as Code Debate
What are the biggest AWS Landing Zone challenges we've seen? Where do we stand on AWS CloudFormation vs Terraform vs ARM? Our experts weigh in.
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Protection from Immediate Threats with an AWS Security Rapid Review
The AWS Security Rapid Review is a 1-2 week engagement designed to provide you with a quick turnaround of actionable remediation recommendations. It is scalable from a small sample of accounts to a few hundred accounts.
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View older blog articles
As cloud offerings have developed, challenges can be addressed by managed cloud services. Services such as AWS Managed Services (AMS) can offer enterprises a much easier cloud experience that doesn’t have to impinge upon the day-to-day running of the business.
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AI & ML: 3 Steps to Set the Table for Data Science in 2021
Data science, AI and ML can help you make sense of your data to save time, reduce costs, enable users, and grow profits. Here are the three steps necessary to producing valid and applicable results from your data science project.
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Optimizing your environment using AWS Savings Plans
AWS Savings Plans provide far more flexibility and return for your investment than the standard RI model. Savings Plans is a flexible pricing model that provides savings of up to 72% on your AWS compute usage.
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How Cherwell Software Improved Customer Experience with AMS
When managing infrastructure was taking away from Cherwell’s product development processes, 2nd Watch served as a consulting partner in developing their strategy and engagement to onboarding to AMS quickly, enabling them to provide great service management experience to its customers.
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What do we love about 2nd Watch?
What do we love most about 2nd Watch? Find out what makes a great day at work for us and our favorite things about working at 2nd Watch!
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Top AWS Products of 2020
What are the most popular AWS products used today? This infographic reflects the percentage of 2nd Watch clients using each AWS product for 2020.
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AWS Outposts Overview – Deep Dive
AWS Outposts are fully managed and configurable compute and storage racks built with AWS-designed hardware that allow customers to run compute and storage on-premises, while seamlessly connecting to AWS’ broad array of services in the cloud.
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The New Direction of DevOps/DevSecOps Adoption eBook
Companies worldwide have been adopting DevOps and DevSecOps into their regular workflows at an exponential rate. Here are the top 7 trends influencing DevOps and DevSecOps adoptions today.
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7 Trends Influencing DevOps/DevSecOps Adoption
Uncover the trends that truly influence DevOps and DevSecOps adoptions in countless businesses across the globe.
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Managed Security
Our multi-cloud Managed Security provides best practice guidance, implementation, deployment, and full management of security devices as well as remediation of identified security issues.
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Amazon Redshift: Standing Strong Despite Deployment Challenges
While 83% of companies polled said Amazon Redshift delivered or somewhat delivered on corporate expectations, not all deployments have gone according to plan. Find out what we uncovered.
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Spot Instance and Container Optimization
Get recommendations for workloads that can take advantage of the cost savings associated with running both Instances/VMs and Containers on spot resources - helping you save up to 90% compared to traditional cloud infrastructure.
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Hybrid Cloud and the Fundamentals of Application Modernization Approach
Discover the advantages, benefits and challenges in creating the underlying foundation for building & modernizing apps with a hybrid cloud approach. Explore the foundational principles of application modernization and the initial steps to consider in evolving your apps.
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The Case for Hybrid Cloud – Advantages, Benefits and Challenges eBook
What is hybrid cloud? Discover the 4 advantages and challenges of hybrid cloud as well as 3 approaches to application modernization with hybrid cloud.
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The Microservices Mistake and the Path to Kubernetes
Discover the 4 stages of the journey to containerized microservices and Kubernetes, and the foundation required for Kubernetes and distributed architectures like microservices to be successful.
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Application Modernization with Containers and Kubernetes eBook
You can and should take a sensible, phased approach to application modernization. If that approach includes a container strategy, make sure you first do your homework to determine which applications and teams are the right fit.
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Hybrid Cloud Solutions with Google Anthos
Deploy Google Anthos in your data center in less than 90 days. Progress on your digital transformational journey at the pace that works best for your teams and accomplishes your organizational goals.
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Data Lakes vs Data Swamps: 7 Key Insights to Building Impactful Data Lakes eBook
To guide you in ensuring you are building a data lake, not a data swamp everyone avoids, here are 7 key insights to consider to maximize the value of your data lake.
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Data Lakes vs Data Swamps: How to Build Impactful Data Lakes to Enable Digital Insight
Effectively building and maintaining a data lake to take advantage of digital insight requires strategic planning, advanced skill set and knowledge, and proper digital maintenance - all with governance throughout.
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Google Cloud VM Migration
Move from on premise or cloud virtual machines to Google Cloud optimized for performance, scale and security without business interruptions.
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Cloud Modernization Readiness Assessment
Evaluate your company’s IT estate to determine application fitness and optimal migration methodology for your workloads to shed technical debt, improve resiliency, and reduce cost.
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2020 Enterprise Cloud Trends Report
Suvey findings show COVID-19’s impact on the enterprise IT space may be causing IT leaders to adjust priorities, but they’re not backing down from big-picture efforts that can position their organizations for long-term success.
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2020 Enterprise Cloud Trends
Survey shows enterprise IT remains focused on long-term organization-changing initiatives, despite pandemic-related challenges.
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AWS Redshift Health Assessment
Our AWS Redshift Health Assessment is a 2-week engagement that ensures your AWS Redshift cluster usage aligns to your unique business goals.
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Insight Into Cloud Optimization
32.7% of enterprises say their biggest challenge for containing cloud cost is a lack of internal knowledge of optimization strategy and best practices.
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Enterprise DevOps Trend
Over the next 12 months, 40.6% of enterprises are focusing on cloud native strategies like DevOps. Find out what other DevOps trends we've uncovered.
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COVID Impact on Cloud Security
COVID-19's effects on enterprise cloud strategy can been seen in the prioritization of cloud security projects in almost half of enterprises polled.
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Database Migration Services for Azure
Our Database Migration Services for Azure ensure the seamless movement of your database to Azure utilizing our comprehensive database cloud transition methodology
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Database Migration Services for AWS
Our Database Migration Services for AWS ensure the seamless movement of your database to AWS utilizing our comprehensive database cloud transition methodology.
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Glue Optimization Deep Dive: Analyzing Glue Job Metrics for Performance
Learn how to set up AWS Glue performance metrics, understand their meaning, and take action to improve the metrics.
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5 Keys to a Solid Cloud Foundation eBook
Discover the proven steps developed and tested for a successful mass migration to the AWS cloud.
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About 2nd Watch
Digital innovation requires cloud. We help you fuel your business growth with cloud technologies. We are an AWS Premier Partner, Microsoft Azure Gold Partner, Google Cloud Partner and audited and approved Managed Service Provider.
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Managed Cloud Foundational Services
Managed Cloud Foundational Services provide a simplified, flexible set of core services to manage single and multi-cloud infrastructure with the opportunity to utilize premium services to control resource usage, spend, and utilization.
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A Holistic Approach to Cloud Cost Optimization eBook
Developing a holistic approach to cloud cost optimization is a critical part of cloud operations and can offer significant savings to both new cloud users and experienced multi-cloud consumers.
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A Holistic Approach to Cloud Cost Optimization White Paper
A holistic approach to cloud cost optimization is achieved by examining key optimization pillars, including auto-parking and on-demand services, cost models, rightsizing, instance family/VM type refresh, addressing waste and shadow IT.
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Misconceptions & Challenges of DevOps Transformation
There are many common misconceptions and challenges to implementing DevOps. Understanding these before you begin your transformationb is critical to your success.
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Overcoming DevOps Challenges: Embracing DevOps as a Journey
Bringing together different organizations under a DevOps methodology can prove challenging. Addressing these challenges will help you embrace DevOps as an ongoing journey and accelerate the path to true business innovation.
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Cloud Disaster Recovery Service
Our Cloud Disaster Recovery Service will set up and conduct a low-cost, disaster recovery failover Proof of Concept (POC) environment for your organization in less than 30 days.
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DevSecOps Assessment & Strategy
Target critical areas for DevSecOps improvement - people, processes, and technology - to identify pain points between DevOps and Security and cross train your teams to maximize product velocity and create secure code.
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Cloud Security Rapid Review
2nd Watch’s Cloud Security Rapid Review is a 2 week assessment that measures your cloud environment against the latest industry standards and best practices.
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Remote Desktop Foundational Services for AWS
Remote Desktop Foundational Services help you transition from standard desktops to Amazon WorkSpaces to enable your distributed workforce.
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Remote Desktop Foundational Services for Azure
Remote Desktop Foundational Services help you transition from standard desktops or an existing on-premises RDS deployment to Microsoft Azure Windows Virtual Desktop to enable your distributed workforce.
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Managed DevOps
Our Managed DevOps is a fully-managed service that enables your team to build, test, and deploy applications in the cloud in a continuous and automated way while decreasing your time to customer value.
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DataOps Foundation
Transform your data analytics processes into a flexible, scalable data lake for centralizing, exploring and reporting enterprise data in 4-8 weeks so you can make better, data-driven decisions.
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DevOps Transformational Services
Every organization’s DevOps journey is unique. Choose the DevOps transformational services for assessment and strategy, implementation, or management that align to your organization’s current state and desired progress and goals.
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AMS Onboarding Accelerator
The 2nd Watch AMS Onboarding Accelerator will help you assess, migrate and operationalize your infrastructure from your on-premise datacenter to AWS Managed Services.
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Managed Database
2nd Watch Managed Database provides you a complete team of experienced DBAs and cloud experts focused on your databases and infrastructure.
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VMware Cloud on AWS Solutions
Our VMware Cloud on AWS Solutions guide you through all stages of developing an optimal hybrid environment, so you can take advantage of AWS services quickly with the familiarity of VMware you are accustomed to.
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VMware Cloud on AWS Workshop
A free 4-hour, on-site, introductory overview of VMware Cloud on AWS and appropriate use cases that will help you understand how the VMware cloud on AWS platform can further enable your enterprise’s hybrid cloud adoption.
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VMware Cloud on AWS Solution Accelerator
Educate, evaluate and develop a plan to enable VMware Cloud on AWS in your enterprise quickly, with a 4-week pilot engagement.
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VMware Cloud on AWS Environment Discovery
A free 2-hour consulting engagement to help you learn about VMware Cloud on AWS, along with a brief assessment to understand how the VMware Cloud on AWS platform can further enable your enterprise’s cloud adoption.
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Cloud Readiness Assessment
2nd Watch’s Cloud Readiness Assessment evaluates your IT estate to determine fitness and the best migration methodology for your workloads to shed technical debt, improve resiliency, and reduce cost.
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Cloud Migration Cost Assessment
Simplify and accelerate the path from on-premises to the cloud with instance rightsizing and TCO analysis. Get an estimate of the cost to migrate and the ongoing cost of your cloud environment.
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Cloud Cost Optimization
Our Cloud Cost Optimization service can reduce your cloud computing costs 25-40%, increasing efficiency and performance. This free 2-hour session will help you determine the right starting point for your optimization plan.
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Continuous Integration and Delivery Pipeline
Kickstart your DevOps transformation. Accelerate infrastructure and application deployments with a CI/CD pipeline in less than 60 days.
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Cloud Migration Factory
The 2nd Watch Cloud Migration Factory provides services and tools to assess, design and migrate entire data centers or individual workloads to the cloud easily and smoothly, without business interruptions.
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Security Assessment & Remediation
Evaluate your current cloud infrastructure and processes against industry security standards to develop a mature cloud security posture.
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Configuration Compliance Service
Reduce risk of audit failures through continuous compliance monitoring, while saving cost and time preparing for internal and regulatory audits.
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Compliance Assessment & Remediation
Evaluate, monitor, auto-remediate, and report on compliance for your current cloud infrastructure. Industry standard policies assessed include CIS, GDPR, HIPAA, NIST, PCI-DSS, and SOC2.
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Managed Governance & Compliance
Managed Governance and Compliance help ensure ongoing, continuous compliance of your public cloud environment at all times, from assessment to remediation and maintenance.
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Machine Image Factory
Receive a framework for automation of the image creation process that reduces the time to deploy an updated and hardened custom machine image by up to 95% and the time to implement a solution by 75%.
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Top 30 Most Popular AWS Products 2019
What are the most popular AWS products used today? This infographic reflects the percentage of 2nd Watch customers using each AWS product for 2019.
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Maximizing on the Cloud Opportunity
Discover the best ways through the barriers to a successful migration to the cloud and the four proven steps developed and tested for a successful mass migration for a large data organization.
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Cloud Migration Process
What can you expect as you begin your cloud migration? We outline the general process and timeframe most organizations follow on their cloud journey.
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5 Steps to Cloud Cost Optimization
Cloud optimization is incredibly complex. Here is a 5-step outline to making cloud cost optimization easy and attainable.
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Top 30 Most Popular AWS Products 2018
What are the most popular AWS products used today? This infographic reflects the percentage of 2nd Watch customers using each AWS product for 2018.
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2nd Watch Customer Benefits
2nd Watch clients reduce time to market by an average 100 days and save an average 42% more than when managing cloud services alone. See how clients like Yamaha, Celgene and Condé Nast benefit from working with us.
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Top 30 Most Popular AWS Products 2017
What are the most popular AWS products used today? This infographic reflects the percentage of 2nd Watch customers using each AWS product for 2017.
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Cloud Security
Our survey on cloud security shows that some IT professionals don’t realize it’s their responsibility to secure data and applications running in the cloud,. Find out what other cloud security data we uncovered.
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Cloud Automation
Companies that have embraced cloud automation can deploy workloads faster and more frequently while recovering from failures with more agility than organizations that struggle to adopt automation.
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Modern Enterprise Cloud Architect Profile
The Enterprise Cloud Architect requires a combination of multidisciplinary skills ranging from an intersection of instructor, strategic advisor, broad domain knowledge, business knowledge and inventor.
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How to use Amazon Forecast for your Business
Amazon Forecast is a managed service that takes your time series data in CSV format and spits out a forecast into the future. It gives you a customizable confidence interval that you can set to 95%, 90%, 80%, or whatever percentage you need.
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Optimizing your environment using AWS Savings Plans
AWS Savings Plans provide far more flexibility and return for your investment than the standard RI model. Savings Plans is a flexible pricing model that provides savings of up to 72% on your AWS compute usage.
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What do we love about 2nd Watch?
What do we love most about 2nd Watch? Find out what makes a great day at work for us and our favorite things about working at 2nd Watch!
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How Cherwell Software Improved Customer Experience with AMS
When managing infrastructure was taking away from Cherwell’s product development processes, 2nd Watch served as a consulting partner in developing their strategy and engagement to onboarding to AMS quickly, enabling them to provide great service management experience to its customers.
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View older blog articles
As cloud offerings have developed, challenges can be addressed by managed cloud services. Services such as AWS Managed Services (AMS) can offer enterprises a much easier cloud experience that doesn’t have to impinge upon the day-to-day running of the business.
Access
Cloud Migration & Governance Thoughts: AWS Landing Zone & the Infrastructure as Code Debate
What are the biggest AWS Landing Zone challenges we've seen? Where do we stand on AWS CloudFormation vs Terraform vs ARM? Our experts weigh in.
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AWS Outposts Overview – Deep Dive
AWS Outposts are fully managed and configurable compute and storage racks built with AWS-designed hardware that allow customers to run compute and storage on-premises, while seamlessly connecting to AWS’ broad array of services in the cloud.
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Completing Your Company’s Cloud Transformation with Azure Windows Virtual Desktop Foundations
To help you with the transition from standard desktops or an existing on-premises RDS deployment to Microsoft Azure, 2nd Watch has developed Windows Virtual Desktop Foundations.
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Improved Performance and Disaster Recovery with VMware Cloud on AWS
There are two use cases that are big drivers of VMware Cloud on AWS; the need for improved performance and disaster recovery.
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How to use Amazon Forecast for your Business
Amazon Forecast is a managed service that takes your time series data in CSV format and spits out a forecast into the future. It gives you a customizable confidence interval that you can set to 95%, 90%, 80%, or whatever percentage you need.
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Optimizing your environment using AWS Savings Plans
AWS Savings Plans provide far more flexibility and return for your investment than the standard RI model. Savings Plans is a flexible pricing model that provides savings of up to 72% on your AWS compute usage.
Access
Protection from Immediate Threats with an AWS Security Rapid Review
The AWS Security Rapid Review is a 1-2 week engagement designed to provide you with a quick turnaround of actionable remediation recommendations. It is scalable from a small sample of accounts to a few hundred accounts.
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Improved Performance and Disaster Recovery with VMware Cloud on AWS
There are two use cases that are big drivers of VMware Cloud on AWS; the need for improved performance and disaster recovery.
Access
View older blog articles
As cloud offerings have developed, challenges can be addressed by managed cloud services. Services such as AWS Managed Services (AMS) can offer enterprises a much easier cloud experience that doesn’t have to impinge upon the day-to-day running of the business.
Access
How to use Amazon Forecast for your Business
Amazon Forecast is a managed service that takes your time series data in CSV format and spits out a forecast into the future. It gives you a customizable confidence interval that you can set to 95%, 90%, 80%, or whatever percentage you need.
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Completing Your Company’s Cloud Transformation with Azure Windows Virtual Desktop Foundations
To help you with the transition from standard desktops or an existing on-premises RDS deployment to Microsoft Azure, 2nd Watch has developed Windows Virtual Desktop Foundations.
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How Cherwell Software Improved Customer Experience with AMS
When managing infrastructure was taking away from Cherwell’s product development processes, 2nd Watch served as a consulting partner in developing their strategy and engagement to onboarding to AMS quickly, enabling them to provide great service management experience to its customers.
Access
Cloud Migration & Governance Thoughts: AWS Landing Zone & the Infrastructure as Code Debate
What are the biggest AWS Landing Zone challenges we've seen? Where do we stand on AWS CloudFormation vs Terraform vs ARM? Our experts weigh in.
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AWS Outposts Overview – Deep Dive
AWS Outposts are fully managed and configurable compute and storage racks built with AWS-designed hardware that allow customers to run compute and storage on-premises, while seamlessly connecting to AWS’ broad array of services in the cloud.
Access
What do we love about 2nd Watch?
What do we love most about 2nd Watch? Find out what makes a great day at work for us and our favorite things about working at 2nd Watch!
Access
View older blog articles
As cloud offerings have developed, challenges can be addressed by managed cloud services. Services such as AWS Managed Services (AMS) can offer enterprises a much easier cloud experience that doesn’t have to impinge upon the day-to-day running of the business.
Access
Protection from Immediate Threats with an AWS Security Rapid Review
The AWS Security Rapid Review is a 1-2 week engagement designed to provide you with a quick turnaround of actionable remediation recommendations. It is scalable from a small sample of accounts to a few hundred accounts.
Access
How to use Amazon Forecast for your Business
Amazon Forecast is a managed service that takes your time series data in CSV format and spits out a forecast into the future. It gives you a customizable confidence interval that you can set to 95%, 90%, 80%, or whatever percentage you need.
Access
Improved Performance and Disaster Recovery with VMware Cloud on AWS
There are two use cases that are big drivers of VMware Cloud on AWS; the need for improved performance and disaster recovery.
Access
Optimizing your environment using AWS Savings Plans
AWS Savings Plans provide far more flexibility and return for your investment than the standard RI model. Savings Plans is a flexible pricing model that provides savings of up to 72% on your AWS compute usage.
Access
Cloud Migration & Governance Thoughts: AWS Landing Zone & the Infrastructure as Code Debate
What are the biggest AWS Landing Zone challenges we've seen? Where do we stand on AWS CloudFormation vs Terraform vs ARM? Our experts weigh in.
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Completing Your Company’s Cloud Transformation with Azure Windows Virtual Desktop Foundations
To help you with the transition from standard desktops or an existing on-premises RDS deployment to Microsoft Azure, 2nd Watch has developed Windows Virtual Desktop Foundations.
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How Cherwell Software Improved Customer Experience with AMS
When managing infrastructure was taking away from Cherwell’s product development processes, 2nd Watch served as a consulting partner in developing their strategy and engagement to onboarding to AMS quickly, enabling them to provide great service management experience to its customers.
Access
AWS Outposts Overview – Deep Dive
AWS Outposts are fully managed and configurable compute and storage racks built with AWS-designed hardware that allow customers to run compute and storage on-premises, while seamlessly connecting to AWS’ broad array of services in the cloud.
Access
Optimizing your environment using AWS Savings Plans
AWS Savings Plans provide far more flexibility and return for your investment than the standard RI model. Savings Plans is a flexible pricing model that provides savings of up to 72% on your AWS compute usage.
Access
Cloud Migration & Governance Thoughts: AWS Landing Zone & the Infrastructure as Code Debate
What are the biggest AWS Landing Zone challenges we've seen? Where do we stand on AWS CloudFormation vs Terraform vs ARM? Our experts weigh in.
Access
Protection from Immediate Threats with an AWS Security Rapid Review
The AWS Security Rapid Review is a 1-2 week engagement designed to provide you with a quick turnaround of actionable remediation recommendations. It is scalable from a small sample of accounts to a few hundred accounts.
Access
What do we love about 2nd Watch?
What do we love most about 2nd Watch? Find out what makes a great day at work for us and our favorite things about working at 2nd Watch!
Access
How to use Amazon Forecast for your Business
Amazon Forecast is a managed service that takes your time series data in CSV format and spits out a forecast into the future. It gives you a customizable confidence interval that you can set to 95%, 90%, 80%, or whatever percentage you need.
Access
AWS Outposts Overview – Deep Dive
AWS Outposts are fully managed and configurable compute and storage racks built with AWS-designed hardware that allow customers to run compute and storage on-premises, while seamlessly connecting to AWS’ broad array of services in the cloud.
Access
Improved Performance and Disaster Recovery with VMware Cloud on AWS
There are two use cases that are big drivers of VMware Cloud on AWS; the need for improved performance and disaster recovery.
Access
How Cherwell Software Improved Customer Experience with AMS
When managing infrastructure was taking away from Cherwell’s product development processes, 2nd Watch served as a consulting partner in developing their strategy and engagement to onboarding to AMS quickly, enabling them to provide great service management experience to its customers.
Access
View older blog articles
As cloud offerings have developed, challenges can be addressed by managed cloud services. Services such as AWS Managed Services (AMS) can offer enterprises a much easier cloud experience that doesn’t have to impinge upon the day-to-day running of the business.
Access
Completing Your Company’s Cloud Transformation with Azure Windows Virtual Desktop Foundations
To help you with the transition from standard desktops or an existing on-premises RDS deployment to Microsoft Azure, 2nd Watch has developed Windows Virtual Desktop Foundations.
Access
Optimizing your environment using AWS Savings Plans
AWS Savings Plans provide far more flexibility and return for your investment than the standard RI model. Savings Plans is a flexible pricing model that provides savings of up to 72% on your AWS compute usage.
Access
What do we love about 2nd Watch?
What do we love most about 2nd Watch? Find out what makes a great day at work for us and our favorite things about working at 2nd Watch!
Access
Completing Your Company’s Cloud Transformation with Azure Windows Virtual Desktop Foundations
To help you with the transition from standard desktops or an existing on-premises RDS deployment to Microsoft Azure, 2nd Watch has developed Windows Virtual Desktop Foundations.
Access
AWS Outposts Overview – Deep Dive
AWS Outposts are fully managed and configurable compute and storage racks built with AWS-designed hardware that allow customers to run compute and storage on-premises, while seamlessly connecting to AWS’ broad array of services in the cloud.
Access
Cloud Migration & Governance Thoughts: AWS Landing Zone & the Infrastructure as Code Debate
What are the biggest AWS Landing Zone challenges we've seen? Where do we stand on AWS CloudFormation vs Terraform vs ARM? Our experts weigh in.
Access
How Cherwell Software Improved Customer Experience with AMS
When managing infrastructure was taking away from Cherwell’s product development processes, 2nd Watch served as a consulting partner in developing their strategy and engagement to onboarding to AMS quickly, enabling them to provide great service management experience to its customers.
Access
Protection from Immediate Threats with an AWS Security Rapid Review
The AWS Security Rapid Review is a 1-2 week engagement designed to provide you with a quick turnaround of actionable remediation recommendations. It is scalable from a small sample of accounts to a few hundred accounts.
Access
How to use Amazon Forecast for your Business
Amazon Forecast is a managed service that takes your time series data in CSV format and spits out a forecast into the future. It gives you a customizable confidence interval that you can set to 95%, 90%, 80%, or whatever percentage you need.
Access
View older blog articles
As cloud offerings have developed, challenges can be addressed by managed cloud services. Services such as AWS Managed Services (AMS) can offer enterprises a much easier cloud experience that doesn’t have to impinge upon the day-to-day running of the business.
Access
Cloud Migration & Governance Thoughts: AWS Landing Zone & the Infrastructure as Code Debate
What are the biggest AWS Landing Zone challenges we've seen? Where do we stand on AWS CloudFormation vs Terraform vs ARM? Our experts weigh in.
Access
View older blog articles
As cloud offerings have developed, challenges can be addressed by managed cloud services. Services such as AWS Managed Services (AMS) can offer enterprises a much easier cloud experience that doesn’t have to impinge upon the day-to-day running of the business.
Access
Protection from Immediate Threats with an AWS Security Rapid Review
The AWS Security Rapid Review is a 1-2 week engagement designed to provide you with a quick turnaround of actionable remediation recommendations. It is scalable from a small sample of accounts to a few hundred accounts.
Access
Completing Your Company’s Cloud Transformation with Azure Windows Virtual Desktop Foundations
To help you with the transition from standard desktops or an existing on-premises RDS deployment to Microsoft Azure, 2nd Watch has developed Windows Virtual Desktop Foundations.
Access
How Cherwell Software Improved Customer Experience with AMS
When managing infrastructure was taking away from Cherwell’s product development processes, 2nd Watch served as a consulting partner in developing their strategy and engagement to onboarding to AMS quickly, enabling them to provide great service management experience to its customers.
Access
Optimizing your environment using AWS Savings Plans
AWS Savings Plans provide far more flexibility and return for your investment than the standard RI model. Savings Plans is a flexible pricing model that provides savings of up to 72% on your AWS compute usage.
Access
What do we love about 2nd Watch?
What do we love most about 2nd Watch? Find out what makes a great day at work for us and our favorite things about working at 2nd Watch!
Access
AWS Outposts Overview – Deep Dive
AWS Outposts are fully managed and configurable compute and storage racks built with AWS-designed hardware that allow customers to run compute and storage on-premises, while seamlessly connecting to AWS’ broad array of services in the cloud.
Access
Cloud Migration & Governance Thoughts: AWS Landing Zone & the Infrastructure as Code Debate
What are the biggest AWS Landing Zone challenges we've seen? Where do we stand on AWS CloudFormation vs Terraform vs ARM? Our experts weigh in.
Access
Optimizing your environment using AWS Savings Plans
AWS Savings Plans provide far more flexibility and return for your investment than the standard RI model. Savings Plans is a flexible pricing model that provides savings of up to 72% on your AWS compute usage.
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AWS Outposts Overview – Deep Dive
AWS Outposts are fully managed and configurable compute and storage racks built with AWS-designed hardware that allow customers to run compute and storage on-premises, while seamlessly connecting to AWS’ broad array of services in the cloud.
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What do we love about 2nd Watch?
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Completing Your Company’s Cloud Transformation with Azure Windows Virtual Desktop Foundations
To help you with the transition from standard desktops or an existing on-premises RDS deployment to Microsoft Azure, 2nd Watch has developed Windows Virtual Desktop Foundations.
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As cloud offerings have developed, challenges can be addressed by managed cloud services. Services such as AWS Managed Services (AMS) can offer enterprises a much easier cloud experience that doesn’t have to impinge upon the day-to-day running of the business.
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How Cherwell Software Improved Customer Experience with AMS
When managing infrastructure was taking away from Cherwell’s product development processes, 2nd Watch served as a consulting partner in developing their strategy and engagement to onboarding to AMS quickly, enabling them to provide great service management experience to its customers.
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Completing Your Company’s Cloud Transformation with Azure Windows Virtual Desktop Foundations
To help you with the transition from standard desktops or an existing on-premises RDS deployment to Microsoft Azure, 2nd Watch has developed Windows Virtual Desktop Foundations.
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How Cherwell Software Improved Customer Experience with AMS
When managing infrastructure was taking away from Cherwell’s product development processes, 2nd Watch served as a consulting partner in developing their strategy and engagement to onboarding to AMS quickly, enabling them to provide great service management experience to its customers.
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What do we love about 2nd Watch?
What do we love most about 2nd Watch? Find out what makes a great day at work for us and our favorite things about working at 2nd Watch!
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AWS Outposts Overview – Deep Dive
AWS Outposts are fully managed and configurable compute and storage racks built with AWS-designed hardware that allow customers to run compute and storage on-premises, while seamlessly connecting to AWS’ broad array of services in the cloud.
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View older blog articles
As cloud offerings have developed, challenges can be addressed by managed cloud services. Services such as AWS Managed Services (AMS) can offer enterprises a much easier cloud experience that doesn’t have to impinge upon the day-to-day running of the business.
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How to use Amazon Forecast for your Business
Amazon Forecast is a managed service that takes your time series data in CSV format and spits out a forecast into the future. It gives you a customizable confidence interval that you can set to 95%, 90%, 80%, or whatever percentage you need.
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Optimizing your environment using AWS Savings Plans
AWS Savings Plans provide far more flexibility and return for your investment than the standard RI model. Savings Plans is a flexible pricing model that provides savings of up to 72% on your AWS compute usage.
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Completing Your Company’s Cloud Transformation with Azure Windows Virtual Desktop Foundations
To help you with the transition from standard desktops or an existing on-premises RDS deployment to Microsoft Azure, 2nd Watch has developed Windows Virtual Desktop Foundations.
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How Cherwell Software Improved Customer Experience with AMS
When managing infrastructure was taking away from Cherwell’s product development processes, 2nd Watch served as a consulting partner in developing their strategy and engagement to onboarding to AMS quickly, enabling them to provide great service management experience to its customers.
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AWS Outposts Overview – Deep Dive
AWS Outposts are fully managed and configurable compute and storage racks built with AWS-designed hardware that allow customers to run compute and storage on-premises, while seamlessly connecting to AWS’ broad array of services in the cloud.
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Protection from Immediate Threats with an AWS Security Rapid Review
The AWS Security Rapid Review is a 1-2 week engagement designed to provide you with a quick turnaround of actionable remediation recommendations. It is scalable from a small sample of accounts to a few hundred accounts.
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Cloud Migration & Governance Thoughts: AWS Landing Zone & the Infrastructure as Code Debate
What are the biggest AWS Landing Zone challenges we've seen? Where do we stand on AWS CloudFormation vs Terraform vs ARM? Our experts weigh in.
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Improved Performance and Disaster Recovery with VMware Cloud on AWS
There are two use cases that are big drivers of VMware Cloud on AWS; the need for improved performance and disaster recovery.
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What do we love about 2nd Watch?
What do we love most about 2nd Watch? Find out what makes a great day at work for us and our favorite things about working at 2nd Watch!
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View older blog articles
As cloud offerings have developed, challenges can be addressed by managed cloud services. Services such as AWS Managed Services (AMS) can offer enterprises a much easier cloud experience that doesn’t have to impinge upon the day-to-day running of the business.
Access
Completing Your Company’s Cloud Transformation with Azure Windows Virtual Desktop Foundations
To help you with the transition from standard desktops or an existing on-premises RDS deployment to Microsoft Azure, 2nd Watch has developed Windows Virtual Desktop Foundations.
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AWS Outposts Overview – Deep Dive
AWS Outposts are fully managed and configurable compute and storage racks built with AWS-designed hardware that allow customers to run compute and storage on-premises, while seamlessly connecting to AWS’ broad array of services in the cloud.
Access
Optimizing your environment using AWS Savings Plans
AWS Savings Plans provide far more flexibility and return for your investment than the standard RI model. Savings Plans is a flexible pricing model that provides savings of up to 72% on your AWS compute usage.
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Cloud Migration Cost Assessment
Moving to the public cloud can be a complex and time-consuming endeavor.
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Cloud Modernization Readiness Assessment – Multi-Cloud
Your personalized playbook for migration to the cloud.
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Cloud Crunch Podcast S1E05: Hybrid cloud computing
Today we welcome our first guest, Dusty Simoni, Sr Product Manager at 2nd Watch, to discuss hybrid cloud computing. We dive into what hybrid cloud is is, examples of hybrid, benefits, complexities, and how to get started. For this conversation, we look at hybrid cloud as on-premises infrastructure and public cloud - specifically around AWS, Azure and VMware - and exclude private cloud services.
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Cloud Crunch Podcast S1E06: Azure Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)
Farida Bharmal, Microsoft One Commercial Partner, joins us today to talk about Microsoft's Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF). We discuss the components of CAF including strategy, plan, ready, migrate, innovate, govern and manage, and where customers are struggling and how they're overcoming those challenges.
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Cloud Crunch Podcast S1E10: DevOps’ Place in Cloud Transformation
Stefana Muller, Sr Product Manager of DevOps at 2nd Watch, joins us today to talk about DevOps' place in cloud transformation. We examine ideal entry points into DevOps transformations, methodologies, secrets to a successful transformation, and the "impossible ask."
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Cloud Crunch Podcast S1E11: Unraveling Cloud Security, Compliance and Regulations
Cloud compliance, cloud security...NOT the same thing. Victoria Geronimo, Security & Compliance Product Manager at 2nd Watch who also happens to have an internet law and internet policy background, joins us today as we look at how security, compliance, and state regulations affect architecting your cloud environment and the farther-reaching effects they have on business.
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Cloud Crunch Podcast S1E12 Diving into Data Lakes and Data Platforms
Data Engineering and Analytics expert, Rob Whelan, joins us today to dive into all things data lakes and data platforms. Data is the key to unlocking the path to better business decisions. What do you need data for? We look at the top 5 problems customers have with their data, how the cloud has helped solve these challenges, and how you can leverage the cloud for your data use.
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Cloud Crunch Podcast S1E13 Examining the Cloud Center of Excellence
What is a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCOE), and how can you ensure its success? Joe Kinsella, CTO of CloudHealth, talks with us today about the importance of a CCOE, the steps to cloud maturity, and how to move through the cloud maturity journey.
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Cloud Crunch Podcast S2E02: How Customers are Maximizing AWS Managed Services (AMS)
Michael Eshoo, Sr. Manager, WW AMS Specialist SA at AWS, joins us to talk about how customers are using AWS Managed Services (AMS). We look at the challenges these customers are facing and how they’re overcoming them to maximize the benefits they’re getting from AMS.
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Cloud Crunch Podcast S2E06: CXO Considerations 2020 Enterprise Cloud Trends
How are enterprises responding to the COVID 19 pandemic and how is it affecting their cloud usage? We take a look at 6 key findings from 2nd Watch’s “Enterprise Cloud Trends” survey and discuss what the survey indicates and what we ‘re seeing from our own clients.
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Cloud Crunch Podcast S2E07: CXO Considerations Multi-Cloud – Is it Really Worth It
The promise of multi-cloud suggests enterprises should be able to run their applications and workloads in whichever cloud environment makes the most sense from a cost, performance or functionality perspective. But the reality of the situation can be very different in practice, as enterprises grapple with how best to make technologies created by competing suppliers play nicely together.
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Cloud Crunch Podcast S2E08: CXO Considerations – Moving to the Cloud for the Right Reasons
When you’re considering moving to the cloud, it's important to take a personal examination of your goals for migrating, outside of the basic benefits achievable with the cloud. To maximize the value of the cloud, you have to make sure you’re moving for the right reasons. Today we discuss just that with our very own 2nd Watch CEO, Doug Schneider.
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Cloud Crunch Podcast S2E09: You’re on the Cloud – Now What 5 Strategies to Maximize Your Cloud’s Value
You migrated your applications to the cloud for a reason. Now that you're there, what’s next? How do you take advantage of your applications and data that reside in the cloud? What should you be thinking about in terms of security and compliance? In this first episode of a 5-part series, we discuss 5 strategies you should consider to maximize the value of being on the cloud.
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Cloud Crunch Podcast S2E10: 5 Strategies to Maximize Your Cloud’s Value Strategy 1 – Create Competitive Advantage from your Data
AWS Data Expert, Saunak Chandra, joins today's episode to break down the first of five strategies used to maximize your cloud's value - creating competitive advantage from your data. We look at tactics including Amazon Redshift, RA3 node type, best practices for performance, data warehouses, and varying data structures.
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