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As data grows exponentially, organizations running Oracle databases prioritize minimizing backup time and quicker recovery times in the event of disasters. Oracle databases on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) often configure an Oracle Fast Recovery Area (FRA) to fulfil data protection, disaster recovery, and compliance requirements. The FRA is a centralized, Oracle-managed storage location that streamlines […]

Mission-critical applications power everything from e-commerce to healthcare, making a solid backup strategy not just a best practice but a vital necessity. Threats like ransomware grow more sophisticated and for AWS users, having backups isn’t enough. Organizations need confidence that these safeguards will perform when disaster strikes. Manual testing, while essential, drains IT resources. Through […]

FICO powers decisions that help people and businesses around the world prosper. Using FICO solutions, businesses in more than 80 countries do everything from protecting four billion payment cards from fraud, to improving financial inclusion, and increasing supply chain resiliency. As a global leader in credit scoring and analytics, FICO processes massive volumes of sensitive […]

In a layered security strategy like a defense-in-depth, when prevention fails, mitigation becomes critical. Most AWS storage services use immutable storage and recovery from backup to mitigate the impact of ransomware. Autonomous Ransomware Protection (ARP) is a new security feature of Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP (FSx for ONTAP), a fully managed service that provides […]

The ability to monitor and manage workloads in real-time is a foundational requirement for ensuring that you can meet your resilience objectives. Having visibility into key user activities and the performance of critical business functions, enables you to automate responses to events that can impact business operations. Effective monitoring is crucial for not only achieving […]

Sometimes the infrastructure operations team might face a challenge in managing the development team’s data storage practices. The development team tends to store data in an uncontrolled manner, leading to potential issues such as excessive storage consumption and inefficient resource usage. This challenge arises from the lack of quota or capacity management capabilities in the […]

Bridgewater Associates is a global macro investment manager, with a core mission of understanding how the world’s markets and economies work by analyzing the drivers of markets and turning that understanding into high-quality portfolios and investment advice for their clients. The data that drives this economic research is stored in Bridgewater’s data lake, built on […]

Many organizations use third-party Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) tools (for example Wiz.io) to continuously detect and remediate misconfiguration from build time to runtime across hybrid clouds such as AWS. CSPM tools often use AWS resource tags to enhance their security and compliance monitoring capabilities. Tags are key-value pairs that you can assign to AWS resources […]

Managing high-performance file storage can be a significant operational and cost challenge for many organizations, especially those running compute-intensive workloads such as high-performance computing (HPC) or data analytics. This is particularly true for organizations with existing data lakes on Amazon S3 who need POSIX-compliant, high-performance file system access. Amazon FSx for Lustre provides a scalable, […]

Imagine a company like a movie studio, one that works with enormous volumes of video files, scripts, and animation assets. They store these files on a high-performance file system such as Amazon FSx for Lustre, a fully managed shared storage built on the world’s most popular high-performance file system. Each file has metadata, such as […]