Cloud Computing

A data lakehouse is the data management paradigm combining data warehouse and data lake capabilities into a unified platform for optimizing structured and unstructured data storage. While data warehouses have long been the answer to storing structured data, the explosion of data in recent decades led to data lakes storing vast amounts of unique and unstructured data types. Only recently have the leading database software and...

AWS Lambda is an event-driven serverless computing platform, which executes code in response to events while handling the back-end administration and infrastructure required to run code. In this article, we explore AWS Lambda and its functioning, concepts, benefits, and use cases. What Is Serverless Computing? Serverless computing is a means of delivering back-end services on demand. Serverless providers let users write and deploy code without those users...

Ransomware, like no other threat, puts fear into the hearts and minds of data administrators. From small businesses to hospitals and critical infrastructure, organizations of all sizes have been victims of ransomware in recent years. Sadly, ransomware protection is more a buzzword than a single product or solution. The cybersecurity vendors doing the most for clients in addressing ransomware are a list of familiar and...

Cloud and online backups are essential for modern organizations seeking to establish additional security and redundancy of critical data. As uptime for digital services and IT infrastructure increasingly influences a business's bottom line, companies must take even more precautions with protecting data and systems. Whereas administrators were previously limited to on-premises backups, cloud backups — like many cloud based services — offer clients an affordable,...

The prevalence of cloud computing is undeniable; cloud computing generated almost $400 billion in revenue in 2021 alone, globally. One of the largest players in the cloud computing market is Amazon Web Services (AWS), and they have a wide array of services, including Amazon EC2. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) is a service that provides scalable compute capacity in the cloud, making web-scale cloud computing...

Extract, transform, and load (ETL) software is the tool or tools needed to transfer data from multiple sources to a unified repository, such as a data warehouse or data lake. ETL tools have been in use for almost five decades, allowing organizations to analyze, develop, and act on data continually. Several tenured enterprise vendors for database management, analytics, and business intelligence continue to lead the...

Edge computing networks prioritize distributed infrastructure and micro data centers that bring processing and storage of digital resources to global end-users. But how should organizations at large approach edge network deployment? While the last decade has seen the widespread adoption of cloud computing — which relies on centrally hosted and managed data centers — edge computing provides enterprise organizations with the methods needed to keep...

Cloud computing security, or cloud security, is a set of policies and technologies to protect the services and resources of the cloud computing system. Cloud security is a subdomain of cybersecurity, and includes processes to protect services, applications, data, virtualized IP, and the related infrastructure of cloud computing systems. Virtualized environments, including virtual machines (VMs) and containers, present unique risks to cloud security. Here, we...