2nd Watch Blog

Gartner says, “DevOps initiatives improve speed and agility, but monitoring often starts during pr...

Even though public cloud adoption has become mainstream among enterprises, the heavily touted f...

It’s easy to forget that when enterprises first started moving to the cloud, it was a largely simp...

The completion of your IT transformation from data center to full cloud adoption can often be hinder...

AWS Outposts are fully managed and configurable compute and storage racks built with AWS-designed ha...

Surprisingly, AWS has very quietly released a major enhancement/overhaul to purchasing compute resou...

AWS re:Invent always presents us with a cornucopia of new cloud capabilities to build with and be in...

My second week at 2nd Watch, it happened.  I was minding my own business, working to build a frame...

With a week full of sessions, bootcamps and extra-curriculars at AWS re:Invent, you might not have h...

Thursday marked the last full day of AWS re:Invent 2019 and the morning after another outstanding 2n...

AWS re:Invent kicked off Day 4 with its third and final keynote speech, delivered by Amazon.com’s ...

Wednesday is the heart of the AWS re:Invent conference. Between Keynotes from Andy Jassy on Tuesday ...

Day 3 of AWS re:Invent 2019 began with the Global Partner Summit Keynote. As a member of the AWS Par...

Will you be at AWS re:Invent 2019? 2nd Watch is sponsoring the event, and we want to see you! Stop b...

The annual AWS re:Invent conference is nearing upon us, kicking off December 2nd in Las Vegas. We ar...

I was on a project recently where we had to set up VMware HCX in an environment to connect the on-pr...

Cloud Adoption is almost mainstream. What are you doing to get on board? If you follow the hype, you...

The holy grail of IT Operations is to achieve a state where all mundane, repeatable remediations occ...

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Let me start by painting the picture: You’re the CFO. Or the manager of a department, group, or te...

How do you make the right decisions about moving to the cloud when there are over half a million SKU...

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In a world of high profile attacks, breaches, and information compromises, companies that rely on th...

Managing numerous customers with unique characteristics and tens of thousands of systems at scale ca...

For most students, one of the most stressful experiences of their educational career are exam days.�...

Many people are looking to take advantage of containers to isolate their workloads on a single syste...

By now you’ve likely heard of VMware Cloud on AWS, either from the first announcement of the offer...

Autonomics systems is an exciting new arena within cloud computing, although it is not a new technol...

Customers are wrangling with many challenges in managing security at scale across the enterprise. As...

Figuring out monitoring in a holistic sense is a challenge for many companies still, whether it is w...

While at 2nd Watch, I’ve had the opportunity to work with a plethora of CIOs on their journey to t...

The cloud is an exciting place, where the realization of instant implementation and execution of ent...

What is GRC? Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) is a standard framework that helps to drive organ...

With increased focus on security and governance in today’s digital economy, I want to highlight a ...

I love an all you can eat buffet. One can get a ton of value from a lot to choose from, and you can ...

Picking up where we left off… In my previous blog I gave a fairly high-level overview of what auto...

Compliance is a constant challenge today. Keeping our system images in a healthy and trusted state o...

What does that even mean? What I am talking about here is the automation of the following: AWS Linke...

Find tips on how to make it to a fully coded and automated DevOps process...

Tech leaders are increasingly turning to the cloud for cost savings and convenience, but getting to ...

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Network World’s Brandon Butler gives a tour of the Amazon Web Services re:Invent expo floor, a...

Every enterprise knows by now that it can save money by simply lifting and shifting workloads to the...

There have been countless numbers of articles, blogs and whitepapers written on the subject of secur...

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Gartner’s 2016 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, Worldwide was released today,...

When you’re ready to move to the cloud, it’s truly a transformational time.  Determining your c...

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AWS is an innovation lab. The world’s top cloud provider releases hundreds of updates and dozens o...

For database administrators and engineers, migrating a database can be a major headache. It’s such...

AWS has managed to transform the traditional datacenter model into a feature-rich platform and has b...

Enabling enterprises to accurately distribute cloud expenses to their unique cost reporting structur...

As an AWS Premier Partner and audited, authorized APN Managed Service Provider (MSP), 2nd Watch offe...

While some large enterprises avoid moving to the cloud because of rigid security and compliance requ...

Now that AWS has released the new NAT Gateway, you’ll need a plan to migrate off your old legacy N...

When first speaking to mid-size and large enterprises considering embracing the Amazon Web Services ...

AWS regularly cuts customer cost by reducing the price of their services.  This happened most recen...

Amazon Web Services will continue to lower its prices for IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) and Paa...

A very common operational requirement is to run workloads at perpetually scheduled points in time. ...

Here is the use case:   Imagine you have several VPCs (target VPCs) that you want to attach to a s...

Cloud billing is often complex and one-dimensional, and allocating costs across your organization �...

The secret to DevOps maturity isn’t technology or process, but people. It takes engaged leadership...

In the last of our four-part blog series with our strategic partner, Alert Logic, we explore busin...

There are several open source (aka free) tools that you can use to the security of your applications...

Security should be baked into the DevOps process, from tools to skills to collaboration. DevOps and ...

Implementing security in a cloud environment may seem like a difficult task and slows down, or even ...

New visualization tool is the first native visualization for AWS infrastructure, and a groundbreakin...

Security is a stifling fear for organizations considering public clouds, one frequently stoked by IT...

Easier Customized Mobile Device Digital Marketing When marketers think digital, they think mobile, b...

Jeff Aden, EVP of Business Development and Marketing at 2nd Watch, recently contributed this article...

When people first hear about the cloud, they typically envision some nebulous server in the sky. Mov...

The exponential growth of big data is pushing companies to process massive amounts of information as...

Business intelligence (BI) is an umbrella term that refers to a variety of software applications use...

Batch computing isn’t necessarily the most difficult thing to design a solution around, but there ...

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When it comes to managing and monitoring IT spending, the cloud has created a new layer of complexit...

AWS enables enterprises to trade capital expense for variable expense, lower operating costs and inc...

As firms progress through the transition from traditional IT to the AWS Cloud, there is often a mome...

With the New Year comes the resolutions. When the clock struck midnight on January 1st, 2015 many pe...

With every new year comes a new beginning. The holidays give us a chance to reflect on our achieveme...

Momentum continues to build for companies who are migrating their workloads to the cloud, across all...

Implementing Cloud Infrastructure in the Enterprise is not easy. An organization needs to think abou...

Ideally, selecting the correct cloud partner should be as simple and straight forward as the cloud i...

In an effort to simplify the Reserved Instances (RI) model, AWS announced yesterday a change in the ...

At AWS re:Invent, Amazon introduced its new EC2 Container Service (ECS). Although not available yet,...

As you’ve probably noticed from all the chatter in the media lately, 2nd Watch has teamed up w...

2nd Watch Director of Engineering, Chris Nolan, discusses the public vs. private cloud architecture ...

One of the things “everyone knows” about migrating to the Cloud is that it saves companies money...

AWS provides an oft overlooked tool available to accounts with “Business” or “Enterprise” le...