Posts Tagged ‘amazon’

In the course of getting to know many of our clients and their aspirations, we often work with them to get a better understanding of the competitors and companies they admire and are inspired by. Of course, companies are always trying to keep up with and outwit their competitors, but more often we find clients […]

Data management is at the heart of every enterprise, especially with online operations. Though many have used MySQL relational databases to manage their data, the rise of NoSQL (Not Only SQL) and its faster data operations has come into use with the amount of data being created. One of the leading NoSQL platforms on the […]

Most e-retailers offer special discounts and specials on Cyber Monday (the Monday following Thanksgiving, which will be November 27th this year), but Amazon has now successfully created its own industry holiday with Prime Day. What is Prime Day? The Basics: Amazon has announced that July 11th will be Prime Day, 2017. In the spirit of […]

In this blog post, I will cover the necessary steps to create the S3 bucket storage that will transition to standard – IA (Infrequent Access) for 30 days to finally move to Glacier where the files will be archived for 61 days. Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) low-cost S3 cloud storage provides a cost-efficient solution to […]

Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) low-cost S3 cloud storage provides a cost-efficient solution to archive snapshot files extracted from Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (PBCS). In the following paragraphs, I will use the AWS Command Line interface (CLI) to upload to the Amazon S3 bucket to archive backup files pulled down from a PBCS instance. […]

Target audience: Mid to Highly skilled Linux, IBM and AWS admins. Currently IBM software is retrieved from passport advantage client account. If you’re tasked with building out multiple IBM products on AWS VPCs and EC2s then setting up an install media repository that is fast and local is a must. This article describes how to […]

It is commonly known that the healthcare supply chain is costly, led by the cost of equipment and medicine. Healthcare organizations find themselves hampered by high operations costs without proper assurance, passed on to the end customer. Luckily, there are firms that do what they can to ensure that prices stay low and innovate through […]

The average user creates more data through their social media usage and buying habits, offering organizations a critical opportunity in delivering better customer experiences. According to Forbes contributor Bernard Marr, every human will create 1.7 megabytes of data per second by 2020, representing a significant challenge for organizations unsure about customer data today. For many […]

Technology refreshes in the era of the cloud are a perfect time to modernize technology applications, particularly in high impact industries including healthcare, finance, and education. However, technology refreshes have generally been a headache given the options and commitment, the cloud has significantly reduced stress levels for technology leaders. This was the challenge of one […]

According to Pew Research, nearly three-quarters of Americans now own a smartphone, double from just six years ago. Among the younger 18-to-29 demographic, nearly nine in ten own a smartphone, signifying its ubiquity. No matter the age group, smartphones have become a key communication device, used for everything from capturing life’s most important moments to […]

  Organizations today have their structures in place: customer data, historical records in data warehouses and well-built OLAP solutions. Either they have all of the implementations to expose that data as useful information or are working to set up an infrastructure to do so. However, they still find the process of integrating their information into one […]

  With the rising trend to move the infrastructure into the cloud, more enterprises are looking forward to building or migrating their IT hub into the cloud space. There are several obvious advantages of cloud computing that explain its wide-spread popularity: 1. Cost of infrastructure– Having to build an entire network for data storage, processing units, clustered-network […]