Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure

Successfully moving workloads to the public cloud or hinging your entire business on AWS infrastructure can be a tricky endeavor. Companies must possess a strong understanding of all facets of the Amazon cloud, including instance types, reliability zones as well as ancillary products available within the cloud infrastructure.

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure News

August 12, 2020 12 Aug'20
Nutanix launches clusters for AWS

Hyper-converged infrastructure pioneer Nutanix puts clusters on AWS, enabling common management of applications and workloads on premises and in the public cloud.
July 28, 2020 28 Jul'20
Backblaze cloud offers free S3 migration service

Backblaze provides a point-and-click migration service out of Amazon S3. In related news, the Backblaze S3-compatible APIs became generally available.
June 26, 2020 26 Jun'20
Qumulo cloud upgrade transforms files to Amazon object format

Qumulo Shift for Amazon Web Services S3 copies data directly to Amazon Simple Storage Service, without mount points or application rewrites, to enable file sharing directly in AWS.
June 18, 2020 18 Jun'20
Veeam enhances Microsoft Teams backup, AWS protection

The latest update to Veeam's popular Microsoft 365 data protection product features native Teams backup and recovery. Veeam also launched other product updates at VeeamON 2020.

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4 tips for proper cyber hygiene during the remote workforce era

IT services firms have a responsibility to secure their clients' remote workforces. Here are four tips for maintaining cyber hygiene in the cloud, using AWS as an example. Continue Reading
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Overcome these VMware Cloud on AWS migration challenges

Plan ahead for a VMware-to-AWS cloud migration with this breakdown on common challenges organizations face during the move to VMware Cloud on AWS, and how to avoid them. Continue Reading
AWS should address these key challenges at re:Invent 2019

AWS has flooded its catalog with services, but enterprises still struggle with the gaps that remain. Find out which pain points cloud experts want AWS to address at re:Invent this year. Continue Reading
How can you prevent a cloud data breach in your AWS environment?

Get a cloud expert's take on the technical factors involved in the Capital One data breach that exposed sensitive data of millions of the bank's customers. Continue Reading