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Thanks to the confluence of artificial intelligence, machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT) and an ever-increasing array of applications, industrial devices are getting smarter — and generating terabytes of data daily. To help businesses use that information, one software company developed a unique IoT performance and operations platform. The cloud-based solution powers hundreds of applications that can help lower operational costs, improve quality control, enhance safety, and much more. The Challenge With an ever-expanding ecosystem of IoT devices and third-party solutions

The benefits of moving to an AWS cloud environment are well documented, from ease of use and flexibility to scalability, security and reliability. What’s unknown is how much that AWS cloud migration will cost. Determining the answer isn’t always easy. Every company is different, with unique business requirements, varying goals, and specific needs. And while they may offer similar services, every cloud services provider (CSP) and consultant has its own unique approach to cloud building, consulting services and

For many organizations, having so much data at their fingertips can be both a blessing and a curse. While lots of data of course provides teams with valuable insights that can guide effective decision making, such an avalanche of information can also be a struggle to sift through and make sense of. Data is also ever-changing — and it’s up to teams to keep up so that they’re always gleaning the most relevant insights. The teams that stand apart

Cloud computing architecture has grown in popularity since Amazon first introduced AWS in 2006. As more and more companies recognize the benefit of moving away from data-center driven architectures with high costs of maintenance, the need to grow functionality in the Cloud to support complex business needs has increased as well. Due to the need to have robust architectures in place to support critical business operations, companies have relied heavily on disaster recovery paradigms that could be used if the

In many cases, “lift-and-shift” migration, where the entire IT infrastructure with an application is moved from on-premise environment to the cloud without redesigning, sounds like a bad idea. But sometimes, it can’t be avoided. And sometimes, it pays off magnificently. This was the case with one of the ClearScale’s clients in the healthcare space. The company has consistently made innovation a top priority, which is one reason why it’s become the world’s #1 healthcare provider. The

In order for any organization to fully understand their business operations, customer base or established processes, there is a need to be able to evaluate key data points to determine current state and use the information to make informed decisions on how the business needs to operate. Many solutions exist today that organizations leverage to obtain these types of business intelligence (BI) analytics. Not all BI solutions are necessarily equal, however. Some solutions are complex and monolithic in nature and

Read or watch the news on any given day and there will undoubtedly be an announcement that a high-profile data breach has occurred in a heavily used financial or healthcare organizations, website, or social media channel. As unfortunate as these incidents are, most are preventable with proper security policies, active data breach monitoring, and audit logs that can track any breach before it becomes an issue. Not all data breaches are due to outside attackers launching attacks or ransomware heists

Any business operating today is familiar with the need to provide support to their customers. Typically, this involves a call center solution when a product or service is first rolled out and, over time, grows to include support tools like online forums or knowledge bases to help manage the increased complexity to support a growing customer or product base. Although technologies continue to advance and changes have been made to how support centers operate, the costs to maintain or sustain

The growth of data stores has grown significantly over the last decade, especially with the introduction of IoT managed devices, such as medical devices. From a business perspective, attempting to run reporting and analysis against an ever-growing data store presents issues with some technologies due to the processing time it takes to do transformation routines on increasing volumes of information. When dealing with large volumes of data, finding ways to easily apply transformations and enrichment to data objects can be

The wealth of data and information that resides in databases from one organization to the next is only as valuable or useful as the tools that are able to extract that information and the subsequent analysis that uncovers usable knowledge. As companies move their applications and data into Cloud implementations, the ability to aggregate many disparate data sources into a single data store and be able to easily query the data becomes critical for their continued operations. There are many