Category: Thought Leadership

Spatial data is a vital ingredient in today’s applications, enabling capabilities ranging from asset tracking and location-based marketing to monitoring deforestation and more. Learn about the most important areas that organizations need when working with spatial data in Amazon Redshift and how CARTO helps them unleash unique spatial visualization, analysis, and app development features right inside AWS’s cloud data warehouse.

Enterprise customers are modernizing existing workloads to cloud for various reasons. Cost optimization has always been a conversation starter, but that leads to application modernization and operational excellence, which brings agility to application development and enables faster GTM. Learn how Cognizant can help bridge the gap between the infrastructure-as-a-service and integration-platform-as-a-service platform models for modernizing batch processing applications on AWS.

Many applications are built to run on hybrid cloud environments, leveraging distributed services and data from multiple clouds, SaaS properties, on-premises infrastructure, and from the edge. Learn how Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer (IWO) delivers application resource optimization, providing a unified view of customer application environments in public, private, and hybrid cloud environments. IWO’s real-time decision engine helps lower costs, automate workloads, and optimize application resources.

As a modernization service provider, Effectual is focused on a cloud-first approach that includes end-to-end managed and professional services for every stage of IT modernization. Effectual views managed services from a holistic perspective that prioritizes security and compliance. Learn how they were able to integrate AWS next-generation monitoring, as well as operational services like Amazon DevOps Guru, to enhance the company’s managed services offering.

Saint Louis University is at the cutting edge of research, studying human behavior and its economic impact. Learn how the Sinquefield Center for Applied Economic Research (SCAER) uses MontyCloud DAY2, a no-code autonomous CloudOps platform, to run an environment that’s fully automated and self-managed. MontyCloud also helps SCAER automate mounting and unmounting Amazon EBS volumes on demand when Amazon EC2 instances are provisioned.

As organizations acquire more and more data, the need to effectively store and query the data has become very important. Canvas Glide from LTI is a tool for administering Amazon Redshift’s day-to-day routine tasks. It also helps organizations manage all financial aspects related to cost allocation, chargeback, monitoring, and planning of Amazon Redshift clusters. Learn how Canvas Glide assists administrators to successfully manage their clusters and guides them on common maintenance tasks.

Companies are doubling down on developing operational maturity strategies and execution postures. Planning for disaster recovery is a vital aspect of an organization’s business continuity plan. The Cutover platform, along with CloudEndure, provide a best-in-class integration for operational resilience. At the core of the platform is the Cutover runbooks feature, which can be thought of as a dynamic to-do list. This allows you to bring together the teams, tools, and tasks involved in a program of work in order.

For a specialty pharmaceutical company, the launch of a new drug is of great importance for their commercial success. Thanks to AI capabilities to crunch massive amounts of data in a short period of time, drug development pipelines that would normally take over a decade are being compressed into a matter of months. Learn how Infosys Data & Analytics Practice and AWS have collaborated to develop the Infosys Life Science Commercial Insights Platform that addresses such needs.

SoftwareOne has a proven record of successful implementations of centralized inspection with AWS Transit Gateway and site-to-site VPN attachments for our customers. Vendor-provided firewalls remain an option, and the focus of this post is their integration with Gateway Load Balancer. Explore the decisions SoftwareOne took while migrating from centralized north-south inspection with Transit Gateway VPN attachments to centralized inspection with GWLB in front of the Palo Alto VM-Series Firewalls.

Insurance companies need a solution to effectively manage vehicle insurances provided to their end customers, and telematics solutions are used to monitor and manage these fleets. Learn how IBM developed Telematics Hub that focuses on risk analysis, crash and claim management, and more. The solution can be extended to additional use cases and integrate with many third-party IoT devices and applications for vehicle data collection.