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FTP, FTPS, and SFTP – what are the differences?
Learn more about how FTP, FTPS, and SFTP work, their pros and cons, and when you should use them. FTP, FTPS, SFTP - so many acronyms and letters, so little time to decipher what they all mean. Why should I use SFTP over FTP? Is FTPS secure enough for my data? What’s...
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Video: Infrastructure as Code with AWS’ Cloud Development Kit (CDK)
In this video from the Columbia AWS Meetup held on June 20, 2019, Kevin Homan, an experienced PMP in government IT, discusses AWS' Cloud Development Kit (CDK) and how it can help you achieve the best practice of Infrastructure as Code to follow the AWS...
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SFTP Gateway is Now Live on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace!
You can now easily and securely transfer files to Azure Blob Storage with SFTP Gateway. We’re proud to announce that SFTP Gateway is now available on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace! SFTP Gateway is a secure-by-default, pre-configured SFTP server that saves uploaded...
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Cloud Big Data Case Study – Faster Customer Reporting with a Data Lake and Data Warehouse
Here's how we implemented a combination of a database, data lake, and data warehouse to make customer reporting much faster for our client's SMS marketing platform. This is the fifth article of our Big Data in the Cloud series. You can read the first four here: Big...
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How data lakes, data warehouses, and data marts fit into your cloud storage architecture
Understand the differences between data lakes, data warehouses, and data marts, and how they can meet your cloud data storage and analysis needs. This is the fourth article of our Big Data in the Cloud series. You can read the first three here: Big Data in the Cloud:...
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Continuous Integration with AWS – Two Perspectives (videos)
Watch these two different approaches to building a continuous integration / continuous delivery process Continuous Integration - the process of automatically building and testing your code - is a crucial part of the modern software development process. In the age of...
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SFTP Gateway is now live on AWS GovCloud!
Government agencies can now improve their IT operations by using SFTP Gateway to easily and securely transfer files and data to Amazon S3 SFTP Gateway is now live on AWS US GovCloud! Our product allows enterprises of all sizes, and now government agencies, easily and...
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SQL vs. NoSQL – what’s the best option for your database needs?
In choosing between SQL vs. NoSQL, you'll need to think about what your data looks like, how you'll query it, and your scalability needs. This is the third article of our Big Data in the Cloud series. You can read the first two here: Big Data in the Cloud: Why Cloud...
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Overview of Amazon RDS – a hands-on video demo
This video is from the Columbia AWS Meetup held on September 21, 2017 and provides an overview of Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). In this presentation, Thorn Technologies CEO Jeff Thorn talks about: 1) How to launch a development instance of RDS 2) How to...
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8 Things You Need to Do Before Kicking Off Your Cloud Big Data Initiative
Think about your objective, understand data requirements, select the right big data tools, and more This is the second article of our Big Data series. You can read the first one here: Big Data in the Cloud: Why Cloud Computing is the Answer to Your Big Data...
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