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Amazon Redshift: Standing Strong Despite Deployment Challenges
While 83% of companies polled said Amazon Redshift delivered or somewhat delivered on corporate expectations, not all deployments have gone according to plan. Find out what we uncovered.
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Spot Instance and Container Optimization
Get recommendations for workloads that can take advantage of the cost savings associated with running both Instances/VMs and Containers on spot resources - helping you save up to 90% compared to traditional cloud infrastructure.
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Hybrid Cloud and the Fundamentals of Application Modernization Approach
Discover the advantages, benefits and challenges in creating the underlying foundation for building & modernizing apps with a hybrid cloud approach. Explore the foundational principles of application modernization and the initial steps to consider in evolving your apps.
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The Case for Hybrid Cloud – Advantages, Benefits and Challenges eBook
What is hybrid cloud? Discover the 4 advantages and challenges of hybrid cloud as well as 3 approaches to application modernization with hybrid cloud.
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The Microservices Mistake and the Path to Kubernetes
Discover the 4 stages of the journey to containerized microservices and Kubernetes, and the foundation required for Kubernetes and distributed architectures like microservices to be successful.
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Application Modernization with Containers and Kubernetes eBook
You can and should take a sensible, phased approach to application modernization. If that approach includes a container strategy, make sure you first do your homework to determine which applications and teams are the right fit.
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Hybrid Cloud Solutions with Google Anthos
Deploy Google Anthos in your data center in less than 90 days. Progress on your digital transformational journey at the pace that works best for your teams and accomplishes your organizational goals.
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Data Lakes vs Data Swamps: 7 Key Insights to Building Impactful Data Lakes eBook
To guide you in ensuring you are building a data lake, not a data swamp everyone avoids, here are 7 key insights to consider to maximize the value of your data lake.
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Data Lakes vs Data Swamps: How to Build Impactful Data Lakes to Enable Digital Insight
Effectively building and maintaining a data lake to take advantage of digital insight requires strategic planning, advanced skill set and knowledge, and proper digital maintenance - all with governance throughout.
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Google Cloud VM Migration
Move from on premise or cloud virtual machines to Google Cloud optimized for performance, scale and security without business interruptions.
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Cloud Modernization Readiness Assessment
Evaluate your company’s IT estate to determine application fitness and optimal migration methodology for your workloads to shed technical debt, improve resiliency, and reduce cost.
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2020 Enterprise Cloud Trends Report
Suvey findings show COVID-19’s impact on the enterprise IT space may be causing IT leaders to adjust priorities, but they’re not backing down from big-picture efforts that can position their organizations for long-term success.
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2020 Enterprise Cloud Trends
Survey shows enterprise IT remains focused on long-term organization-changing initiatives, despite pandemic-related challenges.
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AWS Redshift Health Assessment
Our AWS Redshift Health Assessment is a 2-week engagement that ensures your AWS Redshift cluster usage aligns to your unique business goals.
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Insight Into Cloud Optimization
32.7% of enterprises say their biggest challenge for containing cloud cost is a lack of internal knowledge of optimization strategy and best practices.
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Enterprise DevOps Trend
Over the next 12 months, 40.6% of enterprises are focusing on cloud native strategies like DevOps. Find out what other DevOps trends we've uncovered.
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COVID Impact on Cloud Security
COVID-19's effects on enterprise cloud strategy can been seen in the prioritization of cloud security projects in almost half of enterprises polled.
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Database Migration Services for AWS
Our Database Migration Services for Azure ensure the seamless movement of your database to Azure utilizing our comprehensive database cloud transition methodology.
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Database Migration Services for Azure
Our Database Migration Services for Azure ensure the seamless movement of your database to Azure utilizing our comprehensive database cloud transition methodology.
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Glue Optimization Deep Dive: Analyzing Glue Job Metrics for Performance
Learn how to set up AWS Glue performance metrics, understand their meaning, and take action to improve the metrics.
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5 Keys to a Solid Cloud Foundation eBook
Discover the proven steps developed and tested for a successful mass migration to the AWS cloud.
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About 2nd Watch
We help you leverage the innovation of the cloud to improve your business. We are an AWS Premier Partner, Microsoft Azure Gold Partner, Google Cloud Partner and audited and approved Managed Service Provider.
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Managed Cloud Foundational Services
Managed Cloud Foundational Services provide a simplified, flexible set of core services to manage single and multi-cloud infrastructure with the opportunity to utilize premium services to control resource usage, spend, and utilization.
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A Holistic Approach to Cloud Cost Optimization eBook
Developing a holistic approach to cloud cost optimization is a critical part of cloud operations and can offer significant savings to both new cloud users and experienced multi-cloud consumers.
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A Holistic Approach to Cloud Cost Optimization White Paper
A holistic approach to cloud cost optimization is achieved by examining key optimization pillars, including auto-parking and on-demand services, cost models, rightsizing, instance family/VM type refresh, addressing waste and shadow IT.
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Misconceptions & Challenges of DevOps Transformation
There are many common misconceptions and challenges to implementing DevOps. Understanding these before you begin your transformationb is critical to your success.
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Overcoming DevOps Challenges: Embracing DevOps as a Journey
Bringing together different organizations under a DevOps methodology can prove challenging. Addressing these challenges will help you embrace DevOps as an ongoing journey and accelerate the path to true business innovation.
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Cloud Disaster Recovery Service
Our Cloud Disaster Recovery Service will set up and conduct a low-cost, disaster recovery failover Proof of Concept (POC) environment for your organization in less than 30 days.
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DevSecOps Assessment & Strategy
Target critical areas for DevSecOps improvement - people, processes, and technology - to identify pain points between DevOps and Security and cross train your teams to maximize product velocity and create secure code.
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Cloud Security Rapid Review
2nd Watch’s Cloud Security Rapid Review is a 2 week assessment that measures your cloud environment against the latest industry standards and best practices.
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Gartner Report: How to Cultivate Effective ‘Remote Work’ Programs
Gartner describes the essential first steps of creating remote work programs including how to empower employees and managers to be effective, setting expectations, and stress-testing your technology infrastructure.
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451 Research: 2nd Watch Carves Out Managed Service Practices with DataOps, DevOps Specializations
According to 451 Research, a managed services provider can add value to data management by addressing key enterprise challenges, such as accessing and preparing data.
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Remote Desktop Foundational Services for AWS
Remote Desktop Foundational Services help you transition from standard desktops to Amazon WorkSpaces to enable your distributed workforce.
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Remote Desktop Foundational Services for Azure
Remote Desktop Foundational Services help you transition from standard desktops or an existing on-premises RDS deployment to Microsoft Azure Windows Virtual Desktop to enable your distributed workforce.
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Managed DevOps
Our Managed DevOps is a fully-managed service that enables your team to build, test, and deploy applications in the cloud in a continuous and automated way while decreasing your time to customer value.
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DataOps Foundation
Transform your data analytics processes into a flexible, scalable data lake for centralizing, exploring and reporting enterprise data in 4-8 weeks so you can make better, data-driven decisions.
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DevOps Transformational Services
Every organization’s DevOps journey is unique. Choose the DevOps transformational services for assessment and strategy, implementation, or management that align to your organization’s current state and desired progress and goals.
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AMS Onboarding Accelerator
The 2nd Watch AMS Onboarding Accelerator will help you assess, migrate and operationalize your infrastructure from your on-premise datacenter to AWS Managed Services.
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Managed Database
2nd Watch Managed Database provides you a complete team of experienced DBAs and cloud experts focused on your databases and infrastructure.
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VMware Cloud on AWS Solutions
Our VMware Cloud on AWS Solutions guide you through all stages of developing an optimal hybrid environment, so you can take advantage of AWS services quickly with the familiarity of VMware you are accustomed to.
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VMware Cloud on AWS Workshop
A free 4-hour, on-site, introductory overview of VMware Cloud on AWS and appropriate use cases that will help you understand how the VMware cloud on AWS platform can further enable your enterprise’s hybrid cloud adoption.
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VMware Cloud on AWS Solution Accelerator
Educate, evaluate and develop a plan to enable VMware Cloud on AWS in your enterprise quickly, with a 4-week pilot engagement.
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VMware Cloud on AWS Environment Discovery
A free 2-hour consulting engagement to help you learn about VMware Cloud on AWS, along with a brief assessment to understand how the VMware Cloud on AWS platform can further enable your enterprise’s cloud adoption.
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Cloud Readiness Assessment
2nd Watch’s Cloud Readiness Assessment evaluates your IT estate to determine fitness and the best migration methodology for your workloads to shed technical debt, improve resiliency, and reduce cost.
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Cloud Migration Cost Assessment
Simplify and accelerate the path from on-premises to the cloud with instance rightsizing and TCO analysis. Get an estimate of the cost to migrate and the ongoing cost of your cloud environment.
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Cloud Cost Optimization
Our Cloud Cost Optimization service can reduce your cloud computing costs 25-40%, increasing efficiency and performance. This free 2-hour session will help you determine the right starting point for your optimization plan.
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Continuous Integration and Delivery Pipeline
Kickstart your DevOps transformation. Accelerate infrastructure and application deployments with a CI/CD pipeline in less than 60 days.
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Cloud Migration Factory
The 2nd Watch Cloud Migration Factory provides services and tools to assess, design and migrate entire data centers or individual workloads to the cloud easily and smoothly, without business interruptions.
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Managed Security
Our multi-cloud Managed Security services provide best practice guidance, implementation, deployment, and full management of security devices as well as remediation of identified security issues.
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Security Assessment & Remediation
Evaluate your current cloud infrastructure and processes against industry security standards to develop a mature cloud security posture.
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Configuration Compliance Service
Reduce risk of audit failures through continuous compliance monitoring, while saving cost and time preparing for internal and regulatory audits.
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Compliance Assessment & Remediation
Evaluate, monitor, auto-remediate, and report on compliance for your current cloud infrastructure. Industry standard policies assessed include CIS, GDPR, HIPAA, NIST, PCI-DSS, and SOC2.
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Managed Governance & Compliance
Managed Governance and Compliance help ensure ongoing, continuous compliance of your public cloud environment at all times, from assessment to remediation and maintenance.
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Machine Image Factory
Receive a framework for automation of the image creation process that reduces the time to deploy an updated and hardened custom machine image by up to 95% and the time to implement a solution by 75%.
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Top 30 Most Popular AWS Products 2019
What are the most popular AWS products used today? This infographic reflects the percentage of 2nd Watch customers using each AWS product for 2019.
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Maximizing on the Cloud Opportunity
Discover the best ways through the barriers to a successful migration to the cloud and the four proven steps developed and tested for a successful mass migration for a large data organization.
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Cloud Migration Process
What can you expect as you begin your cloud migration? We outline the general process and timeframe most organizations follow on their cloud journey.
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5 Steps to Cloud Cost Optimization
Cloud optimization is incredibly complex. Here is a 5-step outline to making cloud cost optimization easy and attainable.
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451 Research: 2nd Watch broadens reach, adds cloud-native adoption services
451 research shows customers have a strong desire for assistance in workload modernization and migration efforts. Here's 451 Research's take on our cloud-native adoption capabilities.
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451 Research: 2nd Watch Aims to Provide First-Class Cloud Optimization
According to 451 Research, third-party tools are needed for effective cloud optimization. Download the report for 451 Research's take on our cloud optimization capabilities.
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Top 30 Most Popular AWS Products 2018
What are the most popular AWS products used today? This infographic reflects the percentage of 2nd Watch customers using each AWS product for 2018.
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2nd Watch Customer Benefits
2nd Watch clients reduce time to market by an average 100 days and save an average 42% more than when managing cloud services alone. See how clients like Yamaha, Celgene and Condé Nast benefit from working with us.
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Top 30 Most Popular AWS Products 2017
What are the most popular AWS products used today? This infographic reflects the percentage of 2nd Watch customers using each AWS product for 2017.
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Cloud Security
Our survey on cloud security shows that some IT professionals don’t realize it’s their responsibility to secure data and applications running in the cloud,. Find out what other cloud security data we uncovered.
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Cloud Automation
Companies that have embraced cloud automation can deploy workloads faster and more frequently while recovering from failures with more agility than organizations that struggle to adopt automation.
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Cloud-Native Services Survey
AWS users plan to increase spend on cloud-native services as ROI and other cloud-related business benefits are proven. Find out what areas will see the effects and which are contributing to the growth.
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Top 30 Most Popular AWS Products 2016
What are the most popular AWS products used today? This infographic reflects the percentage of 2nd Watch customers using each AWS product for 2016.
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30 Most Popular AWS Products – Q1 2016
What are the most popular AWS products used today? This infographic reflects the percentage of 2nd Watch customers using each AWS product for Q1, 2016.
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Enterprise IT Procurement Patterns Favor Cloud Technologies
This infographic helps to understand the organizational emphasis and strategic focus of modern enterprise IT departments based on tech services consumed and spend.
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Architecting Secure Environments in the Cloud
Securing the cloud means you need to design a scalable security infrastructure – one that’s able to work with new applications and services as they become available.
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Big Data, IoT & Digital Marketing
Data shows Internet of Things, Big Data, and the Cloud drive digital marketing initiatives among enterprise companies, who plan to expand use of these technologies. Many plan to divert resources from other projects to facilitate.
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Digital Marketing in the Cloud: Analysis of IaaS Critical Capabilities Shows Significant Advantages
Your digital marketing programs can directly interact with millions of customers, resulting in highly visible, variable, and often temporary resource demands that require reliable, scalable infrastructure.
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Big Data Survey
80% of companies polled are engaged in or will soon begin a big data project, with a large portion of those companies spending as much as $100,000 on big data projects this year.
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Enterprise Big Data Enablement: Risks & Rewards
Many organizations use the public cloud to address High Performance Computing (HPC) batch job needs to make better business decisions while avoiding ballooinging infrastructure costs.
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Modern Enterprise Cloud Architect Profile
The Enterprise Cloud Architect requires a combination of multidisciplinary skills ranging from an intersection of instructor, strategic advisor, broad domain knowledge, business knowledge and inventor.
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The Digital Enterprise: Transforming Business in the Cloud
Companies that transform into a Digital Business and public cloud-based enterprise find powerful new ways to interact with customers and gain agility from end-to-end automation that saves money and time.
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Digital Business Survey
Research shows a stronger than expected connection between cloud technologies and digital sales and marketing programs. 60% of respondents say cloud tools will support digital sales and marketing programs, but issues still exist.
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2015 Trends & Predictions
Research shows companies plan to increase public cloud spend by at least 15%, indicating greater confidence in cloud infrastructure and expanding budgets for public cloud workloads.
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Analyzing Cloud Costs in a Standard IT Cost Model
With thousands of possible service offerings, AWS cloud pricing can get complex! We break down AWS cloud costs and billing to help you understand cloud spend in context of the enterprise technology business.
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Managing Public Cloud Workloads
Enterprise IT says managing public cloud workloads is just as difficult as managing internal systems. We take an in depth look at the challenges and best practices in managing public cloud workloads.
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Public Cloud Workload Management
Enterprise IT says managing public cloud workloads is just as difficult as managing internal systems and that commercial third-party tools and services are necessary to help reduce complexity with their public cloud environments.
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Enabling Enterprise Adoption-Build or Buy Considerations
Many enterprises contemplating cloud deployments consider, do I build it myself or do I buy it from the professionals? To develop the right strategy you need to examine design, construction, maintenance and insurance considerations.
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Enterprise Cloud Demand
Enterprise business units are using cloud-based services and are choosing, managing and funding them on their own rather than waiting for IT departments to create and deploy applications that can help them to achieve their goals.
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Cloud Price Wars
Cloud provider price cuts drive increased investment and innovation in cloud-based projects, however survey respondents say features and performance were more important than price in choosing a vendor.
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