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DevOps: Getting buy-in
Understanding what DevOps means and brings to the business is critical in order to get buy-in at t...
Cloud DR: Recovery Begins Well Before Disaster Strikes
In the world of IT, disasters come in all shapes and sizes from infrastructure and application outag...
DevSecOps: Integrating Security with DevOps
DevSecOps is an approach that combines DevOps and security practices to create a culture of security...
Five Strategic IT Business Drivers CXOs are Contemplating Now
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote, “The time for action is now. It’s never to late to do something...
Gartner Report: How to Cultivate Effective ‘Remote Work’ Programs
Creating and accelerating the productivity of your distributed workforce is a competitive advantage ...
CCPA and the cloud
Since the EU introduced the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in 2018, all eyes have been on...
Fully-Managed DevOps – Is It Possible?
If you’re in a development or operations role, you probably gawked at this title. The truth is, ha...
DataOps: Get your data out of silos and into the middle of the action
Are you facing pressure to make better decisions, faster? Are you uneasy about making too many gut-l...
How Cherwell Software Improved Customer Experience with AMS
2nd Watch helped Cherwell Software onboard to AWS Managed Services (AMS) to provide a holistic appro...
Protection from Immediate Threats with an AWS Security Rapid Review
Security assessments are a necessity for cloud security, governance, and compliance. Ideally, an ass...
Gartner Report: Don’t Fail Fast in Production; Embed Monitoring Earlier in Your DevOps Cycle
Gartner says, “DevOps initiatives improve speed and agility, but monitoring often starts during pr...
Improved Performance and Disaster Recovery with VMware Cloud on AWS
Even though public cloud adoption has become mainstream among enterprises, the heavily touted f...
Managed Cloud, AMS, and the Enterprise – The Hows and Whys
It’s easy to forget that when enterprises first started moving to the cloud, it was a largely simp...
Completing Your Company’s Cloud Transformation with Azure Windows Virtual Desktop Foundations
The completion of your IT transformation from data center to full cloud adoption can often be hinder...
AWS Outposts Overview – Deep Dive
AWS Outposts are fully managed and configurable compute and storage racks built with AWS-designed ha...
Optimizing your environment using AWS Savings Plans
Surprisingly, AWS has very quietly released a major enhancement/overhaul to purchasing compute resou...
Top 5 takeaways from AWS re:Invent 2019
AWS re:Invent always presents us with a cornucopia of new cloud capabilities to build with and be in...
Demystifying DevOps
My second week at 2nd Watch, it happened. I was minding my own business, working to build a frame...
The Simple Path to AWS Managed Services (AMS): AWS re:Invent 2019 Breakout Session On-Demand
With a week full of sessions, bootcamps and extra-curriculars at AWS re:Invent, you might not have h...
AWS re:Invent 2019: Daily Recap – Thursday
Thursday marked the last full day of AWS re:Invent 2019 and the morning after another outstanding 2n...
AWS re:Invent 2019: Keynote Recap – Thursday
AWS re:Invent kicked off Day 4 with its third and final keynote speech, delivered by Amazon.com’s ...
AWS re:Invent 2019: Daily Recap – Wednesday
Wednesday is the heart of the AWS re:Invent conference. Between Keynotes from Andy Jassy on Tuesday ...
AWS re:Invent 2019: Keynote Recap – Wednesday
Day 3 of AWS re:Invent 2019 began with the Global Partner Summit Keynote. As a member of the AWS Par...
Meet 2nd Watch at AWS re:Invent 2019
Will you be at AWS re:Invent 2019? 2nd Watch is sponsoring the event, and we want to see you! Stop b...
What to Expect at AWS re:Invent 2019
The annual AWS re:Invent conference is nearing upon us, kicking off December 2nd in Las Vegas. We ar...
Troubleshooting VMware HCX
I was on a project recently where we had to set up VMware HCX in an environment to connect the on-pr...
A Case for Enterprises to Leverage Managed Cloud Services
Cloud Adoption is almost mainstream. What are you doing to get on board? If you follow the hype, you...
Cloud Autonomics and Automated Management and Optimization: Update
The holy grail of IT Operations is to achieve a state where all mundane, repeatable remediations occ...
The 6 Pillars of Cloud Cost Optimization
Let me start by painting the picture: You’re the CFO. Or the manager of a department, group, or te...
Podcast: Cisco Cloud Unfiltered – Half a Million SKUs and Counting
How do you make the right decisions about moving to the cloud when there are over half a million SKU...
Leveraging the cloud for SOC 2 compliance
In a world of high profile attacks, breaches, and information compromises, companies that rely on th...
Operating and maintaining systems at scale with automation
Managing numerous customers with unique characteristics and tens of thousands of systems at scale ca...
Continuous Compliance: Continuous Iteration
For most students, one of the most stressful experiences of their educational career are exam days.�...
Using Docker Containers to Move Your Internal IT Orgs Forward
Many people are looking to take advantage of containers to isolate their workloads on a single syste...
Why VMware Cloud on AWS?
By now you’ve likely heard of VMware Cloud on AWS, either from the first announcement of the offer...
Cloud Autonomics and Automated Management and Optimization
Autonomics systems is an exciting new arena within cloud computing, although it is not a new technol...
Continuous Compliance – Automatically Detect and Report Vulnerabilities in your Cloud Enterprise
Customers are wrangling with many challenges in managing security at scale across the enterprise. As...
Logging and Monitoring in the era of Serverless – Part 1
Figuring out monitoring in a holistic sense is a challenge for many companies still, whether it is w...
10 Ways Migrating to the Cloud Can Improve Your IT Organization
While at 2nd Watch, I’ve had the opportunity to work with a plethora of CIOs on their journey to t...
Assessing your cloud environment and maintaining a baseline security posture
The cloud is an exciting place, where the realization of instant implementation and execution of ent...
Governance, Risk and Compliance Drive Change Across the Organization
What is GRC? Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) is a standard framework that helps to drive organ...
Using AWS IAM with STS for access to AWS Resources
With increased focus on security and governance in today’s digital economy, I want to highlight a ...
Managing Azure Cloud Governance with Resource Policies
I love an all you can eat buffet. One can get a ton of value from a lot to choose from, and you can ...
Automated AWS Organizations and Linked Account Creation Deep Dive
Picking up where we left off… In my previous blog I gave a fairly high-level overview of what auto...
Utilizing Amazon Systems Manager to ensure systems are securely configured and maintained
Compliance is a constant challenge today. Keeping our system images in a healthy and trusted state o...
Automated AWS Account Management
What does that even mean? What I am talking about here is the automation of the following: AWS Linke...
How to Automate CI/CD Pipelines: Guide
Find tips on how to make it to a fully coded and automated DevOps process...
5 Pitfalls to Avoid When Migrating to the Cloud
Tech leaders are increasingly turning to the cloud for cost savings and convenience, but getting to ...
Video: Network World Tours the AWS re:Invent Expo Floor
Network World’s Brandon Butler gives a tour of the Amazon Web Services re:Invent expo floor, a...
AWS re:Invent 2016 Session: Lift and Evolve – Making Money with the Cloud Takes Help
Every enterprise knows by now that it can save money by simply lifting and shifting workloads to the...
What are the Greater Risks of Cloud Computing?
There have been countless numbers of articles, blogs and whitepapers written on the subject of secur...
AWS a Leader Again in 2016 Gartner Magic Quadrant
Gartner’s 2016 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, Worldwide was released today,...
Decision Points: Moving Enterprise Workloads to the Cloud
When you’re ready to move to the cloud, it’s truly a transformational time. Determining your c...
And the top AWS products of Q1 2016 are…
AWS is an innovation lab. The world’s top cloud provider releases hundreds of updates and dozens o...
Database Migration Service for RDS
For database administrators and engineers, migrating a database can be a major headache. It’s such...
Enter AWS Lambda
AWS has managed to transform the traditional datacenter model into a feature-rich platform and has b...
2W Insight Cloud Cost Accounting Tool
Enabling enterprises to accurately distribute cloud expenses to their unique cost reporting structur...
Why Buy Amazon Web Services Through a Partner?
As an AWS Premier Partner and audited, authorized APN Managed Service Provider (MSP), 2nd Watch offe...
SCOR Velogica Moves to AWS for Better Security, SOC2
While some large enterprises avoid moving to the cloud because of rigid security and compliance requ...
Migrating to AWS NAT Gateway
Now that AWS has released the new NAT Gateway, you’ll need a plan to migrate off your old legacy N...
Cloud Cost Complexity: Bringing the unknown unknowns to light
When first speaking to mid-size and large enterprises considering embracing the Amazon Web Services ...
Cloud Cost Optimization with AWS
AWS regularly cuts customer cost by reducing the price of their services. This happened most recen...
Introducing the Scheduled Reserved Instance
Amazon Web Services will continue to lower its prices for IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) and Paa...
Migrating scheduled workloads into AWS Lambda
A very common operational requirement is to run workloads at perpetually scheduled points in time. ...
Amazon VPC Peering via CloudFormation
Here is the use case: Imagine you have several VPCs (target VPCs) that you want to attach to a s...
Simplified Cloud Billing
Cloud billing is often complex and one-dimensional, and allocating costs across your organization �...
High-performance Teams in DevOps
The secret to DevOps maturity isn’t technology or process, but people. It takes engaged leadership...
How to Achieve Redundancy for High Availability in the Cloud
In the last of our four-part blog series with our strategic partner, Alert Logic, we explore busin...
Ahead of the Hackers: Free Tools and Tips for Testing the Security of Your Environment Against Attacks
There are several open source (aka free) tools that you can use to the security of your applications...
Bridging the gap between DevOps and Security
Security should be baked into the DevOps process, from tools to skills to collaboration. DevOps and ...
5 Tips for Getting Started with Cloud Security
Implementing security in a cloud environment may seem like a difficult task and slows down, or even ...
AWS Launches Visual App for CloudFormation
New visualization tool is the first native visualization for AWS infrastructure, and a groundbreakin...
Understanding the AWS Security Model and Services
Security is a stifling fear for organizations considering public clouds, one frequently stoked by IT...
AWS Device Farm Simplifies Mobile App Testing
Easier Customized Mobile Device Digital Marketing When marketers think digital, they think mobile, b...
Top Business Issues When Moving to the Cloud
Jeff Aden, EVP of Business Development and Marketing at 2nd Watch, recently contributed this article...
Managing the Unexpected Complexity of the Cloud
When people first hear about the cloud, they typically envision some nebulous server in the sky. Mov...
High Performance Computing in the Public Cloud
The exponential growth of big data is pushing companies to process massive amounts of information as...
Business Intelligence and Analytics in the Public Cloud
Business intelligence (BI) is an umbrella term that refers to a variety of software applications use...
Batch Computing in the Cloud with Amazon SQS & SWF
Batch computing isn’t necessarily the most difficult thing to design a solution around, but there ...
How to Improve Your AWS Billing
When it comes to managing and monitoring IT spending, the cloud has created a new layer of complexit...
Accurate Enterprise Cloud Cost Tracking & Allocation
AWS enables enterprises to trade capital expense for variable expense, lower operating costs and inc...
Planning for Cost Management with Amazon Web Services
As firms progress through the transition from traditional IT to the AWS Cloud, there is often a mome...
Reevaluate your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
With the New Year comes the resolutions. When the clock struck midnight on January 1st, 2015 many pe...