Protecting the AWS environment requires continuous security to ensure that data is not left unprotected. AWS offers a rich set of tools and technologies to help protect and ensure that sensitive data is not exposed.
task of assembling and managing your company’s cloud se days is very complex.As resources build up in account, cloud costs become unmanageable.
Enterprises, SaaS platform operators and start-ups are rapidly accelerating consumption of AWS cloud services. As the cloud workloads start to pile up
Magento e-commerce, the top ranked e-commerce CMS has now launched more advanced and revolutionary Magento version 2.0. Magento 2.0 empowers brands, retailers, and businesses across B2C and B2B industries to quickly and cost-effectively deliver engaging Omni channel shopping experiences. Magento 2.0 offers enhanced performance and scalability, new features to boost conversion rates, and business agility and productivity improvements. The new platform offers unmatched flexibility and innovation opportunities to its developers. Like its previous versions, this powerful platform is available for download in two forms: Magento Enterprise Edition 2.0 and Magento Community Edition 2.0. The advanced features of Magento 2.0 are as follows: Open, Flexible Architecture Magento 2.0 features a modular code base that enables easier customization, faster time-to-market, and greater deployment flexibility to public or private cloud environments. More extensive and efficient APIs allow its users to connect and operate at scale with any third party solution. And theming capabilities
StackBuilder is an easy to use cloud app store front that allows users to quickly select and operate a AWS cloud hosted website, dev & test, data analytics or eCommerce service. The StackBuilder cloud app store allows users to quickly deploy and use Tableau Server and optionally Tableau Desktop using a fully managed AWS cloud hosting solution. Figure 1 – Tableau Server Content Page for Easy and Rapid Exploration of Data hosted on AWS using StackBuilder Tableau Server is an online solution for sharing, distributing, and collaborating on content created in Tableau. Shareable. Tableau Server users can create workbooks and views, dashboards, and data sources in Tableau Desktop, and then publish this content to the server. Secure. Tableau Server site and server administrators control who has access to server content to help protect sensitive data. Administrators can set user permissions on projects, workbooks, views, and data sources. Mobile. Users
Join us for a free webinar on Apache Spark and Hadoop on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and learn about jumpstarting your analytics program.The webinar will feature two senior consultants
According to research from Gartner, over 50 percent of cloud migrations exceed budget, do not meet migration timelines and/or result in unexpected
We are an AWS Advanced Partner with a Public Sector and AWS GovCloud competencies and support rapid deployments of secure and compliant environments on the AWS GovCloud Region.
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AWS announced a large set of new services and features covering DevOps, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Systems Management and Operations Support Services. The team at stackArmor is available to support your efforts in learning more
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
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
Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent 2016 just concluded last week with loads of cloud goodies rolling out everyday. The cloud innovation experts at stackArmor have been busy helping customers begin the fun work of driving continuous innovation
Amazon Web Services today announced that Amazon QuickSight is now generally available to all customers. AWS QuickSight allows users to build visualizations, perform ad-hoc analysis and get business insights from their data. The cloud-based analytics service
I read an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal about how United Airlines used data about aircraft damage and worker injuries to identify root causes and effect change.
McKinsey recently published the results of their IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS) Cloud and Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure surveys. The results were interesting and offers insights into how organizations are driving demand for cloud services. Based on the results of surveying
Protecting card owner information has become very important for e-commerce companies as they have become frequent targets for hackers. In order to safeguard the interests of the card owners, four industry majors, VISA, MasterCard, Discover
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
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
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
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
AWS announced the release of their new X1 instances with the launch of the x1.32xlarge instance size. The X1 instances have been certified by SAP for production workloads. They meet the performance bar for SAP OLAP and OLTP workloads backed by SAP HANA. This instance has the following specifications: Processor: 4 x Intelâ„¢ Xeon E7 8880 v3 (Haswell) running at 2.3 GHz – 64 cores / 128 vCPUs. Memory: 1,952 GiB with Single Device Data Correction (SDDC+1). Instance Storage: 2 x 1,920 GB SSD. Network Bandwidth: 10 Gbps. Dedicated EBS Bandwidth: 10 Gbps (EBS Optimized by default at no additional cost). The automation engineers at stackArmor have developed an easy to use jumpstart tool to help customer take advantage of AWS’s range of computing instances with a few simple clicks. StackBuilder is an easy to use cloud app store front that allows users to quickly select and operate a AWS cloud hosted website,
More and more organizations are drowning in data and spending too much time creating and sharing Excel spreadsheets. Is this you? The cloud automation and data analytics experts at stackArmor have developed a powerful “Turbo-tax” like wizard to rapidly select, price and deploy data analytics and visualization software such as Tableau. Tableau is a market leading data visualization software that connects and aggregates multiple data sources to create powerful dashboards. The tool offers an easy way to create and share charts and graphs with ad-hoc drill down and interactive features including maps. Tableau offers a rich set of connectors and enterprise security features such as role-based access and SAML integration for single sign on capability. The challenge however has been the cost and delay associated with acquiring licenses and hosting & installing the software in manner that it can be customized to specific needs. Don’t wait – get from
Enterprises are looking for scalable and secure solutions to develop and deliver digital services at a faster pace using DevOps, DataOps, Big Data and Containers technologies hosted on cloud computing platforms. stackArmor’s platform and automation experts have developed and released a Digital Services Platform (DSP) blueprint that allows application owners to rapidly deploy and provision enterprise workloads using a self-service portal using a highly intuitive and easy to use wizard called StackBuilderTM. The platform natively supports DevOps and Container Management that offers unprecedented flexibility in using Docker, native Linux C-groups or Open Container formats. stackArmor Digital Services Platform supports both Docker management or Kubernetes for container orchestration allowing maximum flexibility. The diagram below provides a logical view of the stackArmor Digital Services Platform (DSP). The stackArmor Digital Services Platform (DSP) is a fully integrated stack and includes stackArmor StackbuilderTM. stackArmor StackbuilderTM is a Cloud Deployment Broker (CDB) that rapidly
