2nd Watch Blog

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...

Have you seen our new service delivery model? Our Cloud Migration and Management Methodology, or CM3...

The summer issue of the 2W MGZN is now available! If you weren’t at the AWS Summit in NY to ge...

In the article “Increasing your Cloud Footprint” we discussed the phased approach of moving a tr...

IT infrastructure is the hardware, network, services and software required for enterprise IT. It is ...

In migrating customers to AWS one of the consistent questions we are asked is, “How do we extend o...

Moving to the cloud is one of the best decisions you can make for your business.  The low startup c...

Cloud has been positioned as the panacea for all of the ills in the world.  The hype often leaves e...

Read The Wall Street Journal’s “A Price War Erupts in Cloud Services” to see how A...

Hello Cloud fans, Today I’d like to talk to you about some commonly perceived cloud myths that I�...

Cloud computing continues to redefine itself as more customers begin their “Journey to the cloud.�...

Last week, AWS announced their 42nd price reduction since 2008. This significant cut impacts many of...

Yes, I know, everyone is tired of hearing about the Cloud. It seems like talk about the cloud happen...

The jump to the cloud can be a scary proposition.  For an enterprise with systems deeply embedded i...

As Amazon Web Services (AWS) continues to develop their enterprise adoption strategy, we sometimes f...

The human factor of IT embracing the cloud must always be taken into consideration. Cloud computing ...

One of the main differentiators between traditional on premise data centers and Cloud Computing thro...

Dealing with organizational change is a challenge in today’s fast-paced business environment.  Lo...

There are four main reasons why companies are moving to the cloud. They include: agility, availabili...

There have been numerous articles, blogs, and whitepapers about the security of the Cloud as a busin...

Amazon Web Services™ (AWS) released a new service at re:invent a few weeks ago that will have oper...

The pervasive technology industry has created the cloud and all the acronyms that go with it.  ...

October 28th marked the one year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, the epic storm that ravaged the Nor...

Amazon and 2nd Watch have published numerous white papers and blog articles on various ways to use A...

Backup and disaster recovery often require solutions that add complexity and additional cost to prop...

An Introduction to CloudFormation One of the most powerful services in the AWS collection set is Clo...

Cloud Services are becoming more commonplace in the Enterprise. As a result, our ability to learn fr...

Amazon Web Services best practices tell us to build for stateless systems, in a perfect world any se...

After a seven-year career at Cisco, I am thrilled to be working with 2nd Watch to help make cloud wo...

Auto-Scaling gives the ability to scale your EC2 instances up or down according to demand to handle ...

To leverage the full benefits of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and features such as instant elasticity a...

Earlier this month, AWS announced that it was integrating its Route 53 DNS service with its CloudWat...

There are an endless supply of articles talking about “the dangers of the hidden costs of cloud co...

Not long ago, 2nd Watch published an article on Amazon Glacier. In it Caleb provides a great primer ...

The other day I was working with my neighbor’s kid on his baseball fundamentals and I found myself...

A lot of companies have been dipping their toe in the proverbial Cloud waters for some time, looking...

If you haven’t heard of Amazon Glacier, you need to check it out. As its name implies, you can thi...

If you are a user like me, it may actually take you longer to make a cup of coffee than creating an ...

There are many companies selling goods or services on the AWS platform, and all have to solve an imp...

For quite some time I’ve been meaning to tinker around with using Amazon S3 for a backup tool.  S...

We’ve talked about what to look for in purchasing SLAs based on your specific business needs, but ...

2nd watch CEO, Kris Bliesner, recently wrote an article for Sandhill.com, an online destination for...

According to Gartner, while 42% of CIOs report to CFOs, 75% of CFOs are actively involved in making ...

In the past few years, Apache’s Hadoop software library has increased market share for Big Data an...

What is Cloud Economics Cloud economics refers to the financial analysis, management, and optimizati...

Internet usage between 2000-2012 has increased by approximately 560%; and there are over 2.4b people...

In his article “Amazon Now Storing 2 Trillion Objects in S3” posted 4/25 in The Schwartz...

Far and away, one of the most common blockers that keeps organizations and cloud computing apart is ...

Making sure your cloud provider is giving you what you need is based on a Service Level Agreement (S...

You’ve seen podcasts, blogs, whitepapers, and magazine articles all promoting backups, the concept...

This past Valentine’s Day, Amazon Web Services launched a business intelligence and data warehousi...

Last week, AWS announced its 26th price drop, which may have you wondering what this trend really me...

Operational efficiency and reducing costs continue to be critical issues for IT leaders. Common conc...

The use of Multi-Factor Authentication, or MFA, to access your Amazon Web Services management consol...

The companies that we are engaged with currently all share a few common traits and these companies s...

I was reminded by many local IT leaders today while attending a Cloud information session that secur...

I spoke with a client today who is a local health care professional who owns his own business and is...