Two broad trends are driving the case for implementing Data Lakes in organizations: popularity of Cloud based storage which is driving down cost of storing petabytes of data; and growth of machine-generated unstructured data from mobiles, devices, IoT which can be combined with structured data to get powerful business insights. Most organizations do not have […]
The new business imperatives enabled by Cloud services namely the need for speed at scale and high velocity releases must be balanced by managing associated risks such as adhering to compliance and meeting IT security needs. The flip side of not managing risk is obvious—it amplifies the organization’s exposure to breaches causing irreparable damage; and […]
AWS is taking the simplicity of deploying containers on its platform to the next level by eliminating the hassle of launching and managing virtual servers or container clusters and worrying about scalability. While Docker containers and Cloud computing shifted the burden of resource management to Cloud service providers, still a lot of operational efforts was […]
Organizations using AWS Cloud end up having several accounts for different purposes including the need to manage operations with separate accounts for different departments, deployments, new projects, functional requirements such as dev, test and production, etc. The reasons may be numerous but the underlying reason remains the same—operational efficiency which ironically is compromised as chaos […]
AWS has launched a beta of its New Pricing Calculator that provides estimates for EC2 instances, EBS volumes and a wide variety of purchasing models. New Services will also be added to the Calculator, soon to allow comprehensive estimates for all AWS Services. The objective of the New Calculation is to enable cost estimation in […]
