Category: Storage

Data breach continues to make headline. Insider threat usually describes an attack vector that leverages compromised systems or credentials to masquerade as an authorized user to gain access to data, however it could also describe an authorized user with nefarious intentions. In this blog, you will learn what make NetApp Cloud Insights special and different from other information security tools and its features that help users detect and react to threats, and report after attack.

Snowflake By Daniel Wirjo, Solutions Architect – AWS By Benny Chun, Solutions Architect – AWS By Bosco Albuquerque, Sr. Partner Solutions Architect – AWS By Hans Siebrand, Cloud Data Architect – Snowflake By Matt Marzillo, Sr. Partner Engineer – Snowflake With recent advancements, building a data platform to provide a data foundation for generative AI […]

When designing IT solutions, a one-size-fits-all approach misses opportunities for performance and cost savings. Exxeta proposes a use-case driven architecture approach that fits IT components to specific business processes. A real-world example shows how this approach helped an automotive company build a high-performance, scalable analytics solution at a lower cost by utilizing fit-for-purpose technologies like Apache HBase and Amazon S3.

The 3-2-1 backup strategy ensures data protection by maintaining multiple copies across different storage media, with at least one copy offsite. As companies adopt SaaS applications, they need strategies to backup critical SaaS data. Own Company (formerly OwnBackup) enables SaaS data backups to Amazon S3, providing data autonomy, meeting recovery objectives, and allowing data analysis.

The Amazon Athena Teradata Connector enables Athena to query data in Teradata Vantage using SQL, and comprises two AWS Lambda functions for metadata and record reading. This post describes deploying the connector, creating a Lambda layer for the Teradata JDBC driver, and running queries on Teradata from Athena, including a federated query joining Teradata and S3 data. This provides a scalable, serverless way to analyze data across different data stores without data duplication.

SaaS relies on the cloud for efficient delivery, but faces data challenges like tenant isolation, high storage costs, and compliance requirements. Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP solves these by providing multi-tenancy, storage efficiencies, persistent Kubernetes storage, and more. It enables SaaS providers to enhance agility while managing data availability, protection, security and costs. Arcesium reduced dev/test refreshes by 80% and overall costs by 46% using FSx for ONTAP.

Amagi provides cloud broadcast solutions with tiered redundancy offerings to mitigate risks for broadcasters during disruptive events. Its CLOUDPORT platform supports hot, warm, and cold disaster recovery configurations spanning single/multi AWS Availability Zones and regions for varying recovery times. Exhaustive tuning, testing, and regular DR drills validate the failover capabilities aligned with broadcaster requirements for cost-effective business continuity.

A content delivery network (CDN) caches content closer to users and reduces load times. Monitoring CDN performance is crucial for optimizing user experience, and this post demonstrates building an Amazon QuickSight dashboard with generative AI capabilities to gain insights from Fastly CDN logs in Amazon S3. It covers configuring real-time log streaming, using AWS Glue to catalog data, accelerating dashboard creation using natural language, and creating rich data stories for stakeholders.

Customer data is critical for modern digital organizations, but is often scattered across tools which can render it useless. Historically, customer data platforms (CDPs) aimed to consolidate data for insights and activation, but organizations now prefer a composable CDP architecture on AWS to sync data from Amazon Redshift and Amazon S3 into downstream tools. Hightouch facilitates this composable CDP approach, making it easy to activate AWS data across channels without engineering work.

AWS Backup simplifies policy-based data protection at scale, and observability offers insights into the backup process for monitoring, issue detection, troubleshooting, and optimization. This ensures backup dependability, efficiency, and security. CloudQuery enables managing and visualizing AWS Backup across accounts, including backup health, configuration, and protected resources to facilitate building a robust compliance posture.