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By embracing diversity, humanity finds greater strength. Our differences mean we can specialize, using our unique talents to excel in the areas to which we are most suited. This is as true for intelligence as for physical attributes. One person may solve …
Serverless: It’s how IT gets done. But what is it?
Serverless is a concept that is often misunderstood and definitely misused. First coined with Amazon Web Services Inc.’s launch of Lambda, the term is rapidly becoming a catch-all buzzword for various technologies, compute models, operational constructs, and architectural patterns. This capricious usage …
Get ready for cultural upheaval: Businesses learn that becoming digital means transforming in more ways than one
The problems in traditional workplace culture aren’t new. Today’s compartmentalized workplace has its roots in the mechanization and standardization of the industrial revolution, when workers were regarded very differently than they are today. But the slowness and lack of cooperation and communication brought …
Q&A: ExtraHop makes sure companies don’t get caught napping on cloud-security watch
Billions have been sunk into the data security market, and cloud leader Amazon Web Services Inc. continues to reassure its customers that cloud security is “the highest priority.” It offers services such as Security Hub. But despite the extreme focus on protection, …
Amazon Business brings procurement into the digital era
Everyone knows (and loves) Amazon Prime for its fast, free shipping and wealth of associated benefits. Lesser known is that Amazon has a Business platform that offers similar benefits to help companies simplify the procurement process. “Corporate procurement is really hard and …
Amazon Marketplace evolves to meet next-generation enterprise demands
Data is the driving asset behind the digital era. That’s great for businesses that create masses of data during their normal operations. But who would you turn to if you needed a source for trustworthy data for sale? The answer is a new …
Sumo Logic and AWS CloudTrail wrestle data deluge into usable insights
Success in the digital economy requires smarts, but not the kind of smarts picked up in school. These educated insights come from the high-level continuous intelligence provided by artificial-intelligence and machine-learning tools. “The challenge is the tsunami of data that’s being generated: …
Q&A: Veeam leverages AWS S3 immutable backup in upcoming V10
It’s a cloud conundrum. As hybrid-cloud strategies disperse data across multiple computing environments, users are demanding that interfaces become ever more intuitive and streamlined. Is it possible to keep data assets both easily accessible and completely secure? Swiss backup and recovery company Veeam …
AWS opens the Fargate to Kubernetes
Cloud computing and containers go hand-in-hand. The mobility associated with the cloud is based on the ability for applications to run consistently across different environments. And containers make it possible to develop, maintain and troubleshoot apps in an isolated environment, reducing overall …
The energizing effect of Sandy Carter’s mission to create tech for good at AWS
Some people’s careers rise and fall. Some rise to a stable level and stay there. Others chart a career course that seems destined for the stratosphere. Amazon Web Services Inc. Vice President Sandy Carter (pictured) is the latter. When Carter was first …