Category: Amazon CloudWatch

The University of California, Irvine (UCI) is a public land-grant research university with troves of research data stored on servers in lab environments on about 1500 faculty-research lab environments on campus. UCI needed a solution to address the practical and economic challenge of providing a centralized backups for these independently-administered servers. The goal for the […]

FICO powers decisions that help people and businesses around the world prosper. Using FICO solutions, businesses in more than 80 countries do everything from protecting four billion payment cards from fraud, to improving financial inclusion, and increasing supply chain resiliency. As a global leader in credit scoring and analytics, FICO processes massive volumes of sensitive […]

Bridgewater Associates is a global macro investment manager, with a core mission of understanding how the world’s markets and economies work by analyzing the drivers of markets and turning that understanding into high-quality portfolios and investment advice for their clients. The data that drives this economic research is stored in Bridgewater’s data lake, built on […]

Many customers are growing their data footprints rapidly, with significantly more data stored in their relational database management systems (RDBMS) than ever before. Additionally, organizations subject to data compliance including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) are often required […]

Organizations are continuing to build latency-sensitive applications for their business-critical workloads to ensure timely data processing. To make sure that their applications are working and performing as expected, users need effective monitoring and alarming across their infrastructure stack so they can quickly respond to disruptions that may impact their businesses. Storage plays a critical role […]

Operational teams play a crucial role in making sure of the readiness and reliability of a disaster recovery (DR) solution. When these teams don’t have direct access to monitor the resources and services that make up a solution, it can create significant challenges. Logs provide insights into system behaviors, performance, and potential anomalies. When operations […]

User files are increasingly growing in number and size. Maintaining and managing file growth can be challenging without an effective set of tools and automation that scales with your data growth. Customers agree that visibility is key for managing existing files and for developing a plan to support future growth. Amazon CloudWatch is a service […]

Direct Supply, the leading provider of products and services to the Long-Term Care industry, migrated the bulk of our IT systems to AWS in early 2019. In the run-up to our cut over, we had five Server Message Block (SMB) file systems that needed to live alongside the applications they support. This meant that roughly […]

Data is a valuable asset for an organization and users are always looking for simple tools to protect their data from unauthorized access. While some use cases do require data to be publicly accessible at times, most enterprise use cases and data privacy depend on strictly managed permissions and no public access. Enterprises use Amazon […]

Many organizations need to store and process data that belong to multiple entities, commonly referred to as multi-tenancy. In these situations, it is important to secure every tenant’s data and ensure that a consumer can only access the data that they require for their responsibilities and nothing more. In particular, if a user or application […]