Category: Thought Leadership

Traditionally, many enterprises and organizations with on-premises infrastructure have used boot-from-SAN (Storage Area Network) rather than using locally attached storage. Booting from SAN offers centralized management and backup of boot volumes, supports high availability through multipathing, and enables greater flexibility by allowing systems to boot from pre-configured OS images hosted on a shared storage array […]

Databases are a fundamental component for any organization with its own IT infrastructure powering various applications. Making sure of the smooth operation of database servers is vital because any performance disruptions can impact numerous users and their activities. Many companies experience performance slowdowns in their applications due to storage latency during database operations. To tackle […]

Encryption serves a fundamental role in securing sensitive data both in transit and at rest. Server-side encryption offers simplicity and ease of implementation, with data encrypted where stored, and enables seamless integration with other services. In contrast, client-side encryption secures data where ingested or created, and offers additional capabilities to meet specific security requirements around […]

Data resilience underpins disaster recovery (DR) and cyber resilience strategies, yet many organizations stumble with an incomplete approach: they diligently back up critical workloads but rarely confirm those backups can be restored. This gap can unravel into costly shocks—like an application owner learning their database restore overshoots a four-hour Recovery Time Objective (RTO), triggering hours […]

Large organizations and software as a service (SaaS) platforms often share storage resources across multiple users, groups, or tenants. The design pattern chosen to implement this shared storage can significantly impact how access permissions are managed at scale. This decision is key because it directly affects platforms’ security and ease of scale. A well thought […]

Healthcare and life sciences (HCLS) customers are generating more data than ever as they integrate the use of omics data with applications in drug discovery, clinical development, molecular diagnostics, and population health. The rate and volume of data that HCLS laboratories generate are a reflection of their lab instrumentation and day-to-day lab operations. Efficiently moving […]

Disaster recovery (DR) plays an important role in the overall business continuity strategy of an organization. When implementing a DR solution, you must understand business drivers along with any governance, security, and operational requirements that influence the final solution. For example, organizations may have a requirement to maintain different accounts for security isolation, control cost […]

As part of my re:Invent 2024 Innovation Talk, I shared three data patterns that many of our largest AWS customers have adopted. This article focuses on “Extend” which is an emerging data pattern. You can also watch this four-minute video clip on the Extend data pattern if interested. Many companies find great success with the […]

As part of my re:Invent 2024 Innovation talk, I shared three data patterns that many of our largest AWS customers have adopted. This article focuses on the “Aggregate” cloud data pattern, which is the most commonly adopted across AWS customers. You can also watch this six-minute video clip on the Aggregate data pattern for a […]

As part of my re:Invent 2024 Innovation talk, I shared three data patterns that many of our largest AWS customers have adopted. This article focuses on the “Curate” data pattern, which we have seen more AWS customers adopt in the last 12-18 months as they look to leverage data sets for both analytics and AI […]