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Is SaaS Dead?

The emergence of hyper-scale Infrastructure as-a-Service (IaaS) platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) is challenging the traditional Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) value proposition. SaaS CEOs, investors and SaaS buyers must carefully evaluate

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AWS Canada Region is Live with 36 Services

The AWS Canada Region is now live. Public sector, government and enterprises that must adhere to Canada data residency rules, can now host their application and data in the new AWS Canada Region. The Region is hosted in Montreal and has two Availability Zones

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Navigating the Complex Enterprise Compliance World—With the Help of stackArmor

Guest post by stackArmor Customer App47 Last year, the App47 team was faced with a daunting task unlike any we’d come across before: meeting the compliance needs of a Fortune 500 company in the highly regulated healthcare industry. We needed to do it quickly, too. We were in the process of navigating a large bid for a project, and our ability to move forwarded depended on meeting the complex security and compliance needs of this company. Meeting security and compliance requirements is no easy task, even at a company with a full-time CISSO and compliance team. As a startup, we don’t have the luxury of having a team like that on board. Of course, that didn’t change the fact that there were mounds of paperwork to read—chock-full of dense language that can be hard to understand—and real compliance needs to be met before we had the chance to move forward

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New Amazon Web Services (AWS) India Region goes live

AWS announced the availability of the Mumbai Region for Indian customers to deliver cutting cloud-based enterprise services. The new Mumbai region has two Availability Zones for architecting fault-tolerant and high-availability solutions. Most of the major and popular AWS EC2 services are available immediately including C4,M4, T2, D2, I2, and R3 instances and related services including Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, Auto Scaling, and  Elastic Load Balancing. The following enterprise services are part of this initial release: AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) AWS CloudFormation Amazon CloudFront AWS CloudTrail Amazon CloudWatch AWS CodeDeploy AWS Config AWS Direct Connect Amazon DynamoDB AWS Elastic Beanstalk Amazon ElastiCache Amazon Elasticsearch Service Amazon EMR Amazon Glacier AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) AWS Import/Export Snowball AWS Key Management Service (KMS) Amazon Kinesis AWS Marketplace AWS OpsWorks Amazon Redshift Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) – all database engines including Amazon Aurora Amazon Route 53

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Visualizing NoSQL Data with Tableau and MongoDB

Present day IT systems are generating data, in the unstructured format at a very rapid phase, due to the popularity of web applications, mobile devices, IoT and Social media. It has been observed that nearly 80% of this unstructured data is being stored in the JSON format. Considering the complexity of analysing documents, Tableau and MongoDB have partnered to make it easy for companies to visually analyse rich JSON like data structures directly in MongoDB. The connector created by MongoDB creates a relational view of JSON data. Then, it either converts a SQL statement to a MongoDB aggregation pipeline query or a straight find operation based on the query. This white paper provides an overview of how Tableau and NoSQL database MongoDB can work together using the MongoDB BI connector.   Tableau and MongoDB Tableau is a market leading data visualization software and enterprise BI software for organizations of all

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Data Visualization and Analytics with Tableau on AWS

Information sources are exploding around us – data is being generated on a daily basis, with Excel spreadsheets flying around in emails, collaboration sites and our ability to collect, analyse and act on the information gets harder. Users in Sales, Marketing, Finance, and the Chief Data Officer are constantly trying to keep up with the information and make it actionable, and share it with the right stakeholders to allow for decision making. Dashboard’s that centralize and aggregate meaningful information are a critical tool for organizations looking to compete and operate in a highly digital age where the ability to act fast is a critical competitive advantage. However, in most organizations these processes are highly manual requiring a lot of costly labor, highly siloed limiting their usefulness and are not designed to be visually rich and engaging.   Tableau to the rescue? Tableau is a market leading data visualization software and

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