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Post I wrote from 2015 posted here – for posterity – on my wordpress site: Enterprise IT security has traditionally been difficult, with the amount of planning, strategy, and process development that is required. Not to mention testing, reevaluating your plans, and adding additional processes as necessary. On top of that, your ability to go back …
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It’s no secret that security is a concern for enterprises considering a move to the cloud. And it’s understandable–after all, you’re moving from your own data center to a new environment. Anytime you enter a new situation, it can cause trepidation. In the past, those worries were mostly unfounded, as the concern was about new …
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We hope this blog provides an insightful dive into topics like cloud computing, managed services, products, and ways to improve your business strategy. Of course, our partners have great things to say, as well. One of those partners is AWS, and they’ve been kind enough to highlight the most popular security posts on their blog from the …
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Network operators may adjust their routing policy to decide how to send and receive traffic through adjacent autonomous systems. This is known as traffic engineering, and it’s used for a variety of reasons: to reduce bandwidth costs by utilizing particular paths or improving performance by using a particular transit provider that has a less-congested or …
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AWS is its own special beast–with a huge number of products and services added each month, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed at all AWS’s cloud offerings. Fortunately, there are ways to proactively ensure you’re maximizing your utilization. AWS released a whitepaper a few months ago highlighting some of the best practices of using its cloud. The AWS …
Apache Cassandra is a massively scalable open source NoSQL database that’s widely deployed in the AWS cloud. It’s ideal for managing large amounts of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data across multiple distributed locations. Cassandra is a masterless, peer-to-peer distributed system where data is distributed among all nodes in the cluster. Each node has knowledge on the …
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Experts estimate there are more than 14,000 attacks on networks and systems every day, with new vulnerabilities in critical software increasing by 50% annually. These are alarming stats for any IT organization, but especially those in sensitive industries like banking. These stats are also why security is one of the key hesitations when it comes …
Post from 2016: At AWS re:Invent last year, we joined Amazon as a Relational Database Services (RDS) database migration partner. RDS is back in the news as Amazon announced several new updates this month. Among the new features is the ability to share encrypted database snapshots with other AWS accounts, and adding encryption to a previously unencrypted database …
Post from 2016: Take a look back at the past year and you’ll see a number of companies that have experienced data breaches, hacks, and other security issues. It’s not limited to a certain industry, either: Experian (financial), BlueCross BlueShield (medical), Ashley Madison (online)…and the list goes on. While breaches are obviously bad news to …
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Post from March 16, 2016: This week Jeff Barr announced the 10th anniversary of AWS Cloud and we at Datapipe would like to congratulate them on the immense milestone! Jeff notes: Looking back at the past decade, it is pretty impressive to see just how much the IT world has changed. Even more impressive, the change is not …