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 re-Invent did not disappoint in terms of new launches—with more than 60 announcements the most important ones tend to get buried in the noise. Here is a closer look at some announcements related to database, machine learning, account management and serverless that will help build new-age enterprise applications easily—applications that scale to handle millions […]
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 […]
