10 Best Practices For Reducing Spend In AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) forever changed the world of IT when it entered the market in 2006 offering services for pennies on the dollar. While its prices have come down significantly over the years, many companies learned the hard way that moving to the public cloud didn’t always achieve the cost savings they expected.
In fact, organizations have frequently noticed public cloud bills two to three times higher than expectations. This doesn’t mean that moving to the public cloud is a mistake. The public cloud provides huge benefits in agility, responsiveness, simplified operation, and improved innovation but the reality of the cloud is that costs steadily rise over time, and without clear insight into what drives your spend, strategic cost reduction is impossible.
In this book, you will learn the 10 best practices for reducing spend in AWS, so you can start optimizing your cloud for spend and performance today.
Smarter data security with IBM Security Guardium
Businesses are embracing hybrid multicloud-based deployment models in order to gain agility and drive their organizations forward. But such a deployment can increase the attack surface, potentially resulting in a host of new data security and compliance challenges.
Learn how IBM Security Guardium—with broad visibility and monitoring, actionable insights and remediation controls—can help you take a smarter, integrated approach to safeguarding critical data across hybrid, multicloud environments.
Overcoming data security challenges in a hybrid multicloud world
Organizations are rapidly moving to the cloud, leveraging infrastructure as a service (IaaS), software-as-a-service (SaaS), platform as-a-service (PaaS), and Database as-a-service as new ways to optimize their business, even though these environments present new risks to sensitive data.
Data security solutions must be able to operate across multiple environments (physical, cloud and hybrid).
Read this ebook to learn more about how to secure sensitive data across a variety of environments, and how the IBM Data Security portfolio can help.
Gartner: Beyond GDPR: Five Technologies to Borrow From Security to Operationalize Privacy
Having to operationalize privacy caught many organizations unprepared. Thus, Gartner experienced a tremendous spike in client inquiry regarding GDPR preparations, with a 400% increase over the previous year.
In preparing for various privacy regulations, security and risk management leaders should review this report to review a set of balanced controls for privacy and security in the implementation of five key technologies.
Five Common Data Security Pitfalls
Is your data security practice all that it should be? This ebook looks at five of the most prevalent and avoidable data security missteps organizations are making today, and how these "common pitfalls" can result in potentially disastrous attacks.
Encryption: Protect your most critical data
With ransomware attacks and data breaches on the rise, it is critical that today’s business leaders take action to ensure that their most critical data is protected. Data encryption should be the first and last line of defense—encoding your sensitive data and rendering it unusable in the event of a data breach.
IBM Security Guardium Data Encryption and IBM Security Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager can help protect your data no matter where it resides, on-premises and across cloud environments, in applications, containers and Teradata environments. Our best-in-class solutions allow you to encrypt and tokenize your data; create, rotate and manage all of your encryption keys; and manage user access policies.
Query Optimization
This article explores using a simple example problem of finding unique column values in a moderately large data set. As is often the case in analogous real-world problems, the column of interest will have relatively few unique values, compared with the number of rows in the table. There are two parts to this analysis: creating the sample data, and writing the distinct-values query itself.
State of Malware
As entire businesses switched to remote working, IT teams found themselves trying to fit months-long projects into days, with security an unfortunate but understandable casualty. Faced with a new landscape, cybercriminals ditched some old tactics and placed a new emphasis on gathering intelligence. And as people adapted to their “new normal,” scammers exploited their isolation with a resurgence in tech support scams. New adversaries crawled out of the woodwork, too. April’s global shutdown was accompanied by a staggering rise in the use of stalkerware, a shorthand term for the type of mobile monitoring and spyware apps that are sometimes deployed by abusive partners.
MSPs transform their endpoint security
Read about three case studies of MSPs who overcame their endpoint security challenges with Malwarebytes.
MSPs: The 5 essentials from your endpoint security partner
Managed Service Providers (MSPs) are an important part of the IT environment, providing the knowledge and the trusted partnerships that enable organizations of all sizes to embrace innovations made available by our era of digital transformation.
While there has never been a more exciting time to be an MSP, there are also many challenges MSPs must navigate to acquire and preserve long-lasting client relationships. Specifically, MSPs cite maintaining profitability (27 percent), bolstering growth (33 percent), and managing cybersecurity (30 percent) as some of their top business issues.
When it comes to managing cybersecurity, safeguarding client endpoints is a critical piece of the MSP service offering. MSPs should have an endpoint security vendor that helps them overcome common issues that can cut into profits and lead to client churn.
Your selected endpoint security vendor should ensure that you can streamline your client deployments, simplify your ability to prioritize your response efforts, and manage your clients at scale. Ultimately, your vendor should optimize the efficiency of your time and efforts so that you can continue to grow your business and maximize revenue.
Safeguard Application Uptime and Consistent Performance
As organizations move to a distributed, hybrid-cloud, multi-device world, they need to make sure they maintain security and IT retains control. Citrix ADC with Amazon Web Services (AWS) enables enterprises to rapidly and cost-effectively leverage world-class application delivery capabilities within their AWS deployments.
This eBook explores how Citrix ADC from AWS Marketplace:
- Enhances security and compliance for all applications and data
- Offers integrated WAF and SSL VPN solutions
- Centralizes management and monitoring, and troubleshooting of your entire Citrix ADC infrastructure
Secure cloud video-streaming & premium quality of experience with Harmonic & Microsoft Azure
Reliable, quality video streaming and delivery has taken on critical business importance as many areas of daily life move into the digital realm. Now is the time to unlock business opportunity from your video content with AI-driven and scalable video delivery solutions that enable greater monetization.
With a cloud-based approach to video, you can increase monetization opportunities, ensure low latency streaming, and create high-value channels with the agility you need to scale in real-time. Explore the shift from passive, traditional broadcast viewing to more personalized, interactive on-screen experiences that drive higher per-user revenues and increase customer loyalty.
Learn more in the e-book Deliver Video Streaming Services with the Power of the Cloud and discover how Harmonic’s VOS360 cloud video streaming platforms:
- Provide a secure, cloud-based solution for even the most complex video workflows
- Enable dynamic, server-side ad insertion for targeted advertising
- Ensure maximum uptime for worldwide service continuity
- Simplify media workflows with unrivaled video quality on every screen
Building resilience into manufacturing in a disruptive world
Manufacturing operations are continually grappling with the uncertainties and rapid changes across the business landscape—factors and events well beyond their control. This has been true for years and is now even more acute with a pandemic causing wild swings in supply and demand.
Smart application of the latest technology can help operations anticipate and adapt with more agility, but many manufacturers have been slow to fully embrace digital transformation, still relying on familiar but inefficient devices such as analog clipboards. The right partners can provide manufacturing operations with:
- Insights, technologies, and innovative solutions to help digitally transform more quickly with less risk and an increase in return on digital investments.
- Integrated and standard ways of working for sustainable operational excellence.
- Online services that help build and sustain capability and empower people.
- Off-the-shelf use cases that have been tried and tested.
- Point solutions to address critical shop-floor challenges.
- Practical applications of digital technologies focused on creating immediate value.
Read the e-book Greater Resilience and Higher Performance for Manufacturers: Accelerating Digital Transformation with EY Smart Factory to see how having the right partners can give you the operational resilience to thrive in today’s disruptive business environment.
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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.
10 Best Practices For Reducing Spend In AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) forever changed the world of IT when it entered the market in 2006 offering services for pennies on the dollar. While its prices have come down significantly over the years, many companies learned the hard way that moving to the public cloud didn’t always achieve the cost savings they expected.
In fact, organizations have frequently noticed public cloud bills two to three times higher than expectations. This doesn’t mean that moving to the public cloud is a mistake. The public cloud provides huge benefits in agility, responsiveness, simplified operation, and improved innovation but the reality of the cloud is that costs steadily rise over time, and without clear insight into what drives your spend, strategic cost reduction is impossible.
In this book, you will learn the 10 best practices for reducing spend in AWS, so you can start optimizing your cloud for spend and performance today.