12 Hidden Costs and Hurdles to Managing AWS Infrastructure

Cloud adoption is booming. Gartner estimates that spending on cloud services grew 6 percent in 2020 to a total market value of $257.9 billion. While there are several large public cloud players, Amazon Web Services (AWS) remains the largest, with 45 percent of the market share for Infrastructure-as-a-Service, and more than 1 million active users.

But, even with an estimated 91 percent of organizations now using a public cloud, many lack the bandwidth, internal resources, and expertise to properly manage their infrastructure. Aspects like monitoring, proactive improvements, and cost optimization typically require substantial legwork that may occupy engineers and pull them away from core business initiatives.

Without the right resources and expertise, managing your own AWS infrastructure can lead to:

  • Costly outages due to hard-to-use monitoring tools.
  • Never achieving a proactive approach.
  • Overpaying for cloud services.

In this Ebook, we will review 12 hidden costs and hurdles to managing AWS infrastructure on your own, and how working with a managed cloud service provider like Mission can help leverage AWS to accelerate your business.

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Preparing Your Business for Global Growth: Streamlining Cross-Border Tax Compliance

As consumers have shifted toward digital engagement with brands and retailers during the COVID-19 pandemic, the opportunity to expand and reach customers globally has never been bigger. But as you build your strategy for international growth, one of the biggest challenges you will face is ensuring compliance with the many tax and regulatory requirements of the countries and regions where you will be doing business.

Depending upon your business model and plans for expansion, there are a variety of tax and compliance requirements that you will have to comply with – from Value Added Tax to trademark tax, import and export taxes, etc. And while Oracle applications offer some capabilities to help address these requirements, without the right strategy and tools, cross-border tax compliance can become very difficult and costly to manage.

In this webcast, learn about best practices and insights that organizations can use to streamline global tax determination and compliance, including:

  • The current global tax and regulatory landscape and what you need to know to ensure cross-border tax compliance.
  • How to extend the capabilities of your Oracle applications with Vertex tax solutions to reduce manual processes, streamline tax determination and reduce risk.
  • Case studies, metrics, and shared learning from peers.

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How to Deliver Integrated and Consistent Network, Application, and Cloud Security on Google Cloud

An increasing number of organizations are adopting a cloud-first policy, expedited via the use of cloud-native applications and services. However, Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) research has found that 88% of respondents believe that their cybersecurity programs need to evolve to secure their cloud-native applications and use of public cloud infrastructure. When it comes to the biggest cloud-native application security challenges, respondents cited maintaining security consistently across their data centers and public cloud environments (47%), increasing cost and complexity using multiple cybersecurity controls (40%), lacking understanding of the threat model for cloud-native applications and infrastructure (31%), and lacking visibility into public cloud infrastructure (30%).

This ESG Technical White Paper documents the evaluation of Fortinet on Google Cloud. ESG examined how Fortinet delivers integrated and consistent network, application, and cloud security for workloads deployed on Google Cloud.

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How to Deliver Integrated and Consistent Network, Application, and Cloud Security on Google Cloud

An increasing number of organizations are adopting a cloud-first policy, expedited via the use of cloud-native applications and services. However, Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) research has found that 88% of respondents believe that their cybersecurity programs need to evolve to secure their cloud-native applications and use of public cloud infrastructure. When it comes to the biggest cloud-native application security challenges, respondents cited maintaining security consistently across their data centers and public cloud environments (47%), increasing cost and complexity using multiple cybersecurity controls (40%), lacking understanding of the threat model for cloud-native applications and infrastructure (31%), and lacking visibility into public cloud infrastructure (30%).

This ESG Technical White Paper documents the evaluation of Fortinet on Google Cloud. ESG examined how Fortinet delivers integrated and consistent network, application, and cloud security for workloads deployed on Google Cloud.

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How to Deliver Integrated and Consistent Network, Application, and Cloud Security on Google Cloud

An increasing number of organizations are adopting a cloud-first policy, expedited via the use of cloud-native applications and services. However, Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) research has found that 88% of respondents believe that their cybersecurity programs need to evolve to secure their cloud-native applications and use of public cloud infrastructure. When it comes to the biggest cloud-native application security challenges, respondents cited maintaining security consistently across their data centers and public cloud environments (47%), increasing cost and complexity using multiple cybersecurity controls (40%), lacking understanding of the threat model for cloud-native applications and infrastructure (31%), and lacking visibility into public cloud infrastructure (30%).

This ESG Technical White Paper documents the evaluation of Fortinet on Google Cloud. ESG examined how Fortinet delivers integrated and consistent network, application, and cloud security for workloads deployed on Google Cloud.

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How to Deliver Integrated and Consistent Network, Application, and Cloud Security on Google Cloud

An increasing number of organizations are adopting a cloud-first policy, expedited via the use of cloud-native applications and services. However, Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) research has found that 88% of respondents believe that their cybersecurity programs need to evolve to secure their cloud-native applications and use of public cloud infrastructure. When it comes to the biggest cloud-native application security challenges, respondents cited maintaining security consistently across their data centers and public cloud environments (47%), increasing cost and complexity using multiple cybersecurity controls (40%), lacking understanding of the threat model for cloud-native applications and infrastructure (31%), and lacking visibility into public cloud infrastructure (30%).

This ESG Technical White Paper documents the evaluation of Fortinet on Google Cloud. ESG examined how Fortinet delivers integrated and consistent network, application, and cloud security for workloads deployed on Google Cloud.

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Learning Paths: Creating Pathways to Success

Today, there is a greater need for self-directed, online learning and training than ever before. Thankfully, eLearning tools like learning management systems (LMS) are available to meet this need. Without direction, however, learners may become lost as they progress in their studies. Whether you’re teaching your customers how to use a new product or guiding an employee through compliance training, your eLearning offerings need a clear and sensible structure to guide them. See how to create Learning Pathways for Success.

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7 Strategies for Virtual Training Success

With remote or hybrid work now the new normal for a large percentage of people, businesses must find new ways to keep employees engaged and educated on new skills, initiatives, etc. For many, virtual training is the best option. Reach your team wherever they are working with virtual training programs.

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Building Blocks for a Successful eTraining Program

There’s no single right way to build an eTraining or eLearning program. But there are some important building blocks to ensure your program is a success.

While all of this may sound complicated, understanding the key building blocks will help simplify the process and strengthen the outcome: a successful eLearning program.

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The Smartest Way to Empower Your People and Partners

eLearning Empowered.

Inquisiq simplifies eLearning. Whether for your own employees, resellers or other partners, or people subscribing to your online courses, Inquisiq has everything you need to deliver high-quality learning programs tailored to your needs:

  • Award-winning Learning Management Systems
  • Authoring Apps
  • Custom Content
  • Plug-and-play Catalogs
  • The Expertise to put it all together

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The Future of Tax is in the Cloud

The cloud computing market is booming, with Gartner projecting the industry to exceed $331 billion by 2022. That’s no surprise considering the benefits include cutting costs, improving data quality, increasing security, and ensuring reliability.

Check out these stats, based on a survey of IT professionals, to learn why your organization should upgrade its tax applications or migrate them to the cloud.

Companies that migrate their tax applications to the cloud accelerate digital transformation and experience many benefits:

  • Improved data management
  • Increased process automation
  • Faster access to new functionality
  • Enhanced security
  • Decreased costs
  • Easier implementation

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