Making buildings smarter with Azure IoT

By Dustin Ward

Commercial real estate developers, building owners, facilities management companies, and tenants have a huge opportunity to address, and solve for, the unique business challenges faced by their industry, by applying the Internet of Things (IoT) to buildings. For example, by leveraging data from IoT sensors and building management systems, companies can gain insights that enable…

SQL Server patching for hybrid cloud with AWS Systems Manager

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedSQL Server patching for hybrid cloud with AWS Systems Manager In most organizations, monthly patching is a critical part of their security management process, and a requirement to maintain a secure and stable platform. Microsoft SQL Server is widely used and is usually categorized as a sensitive workload due to the data…

Simplifying and modernizing home search at Compass with Amazon ES

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedSimplifying and modernizing home search at Compass with Amazon ES Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) is a fully managed service that makes it easy for you to deploy, secure, and operate Elasticsearch in AWS at scale. It’s a widely popular service and different customers integrate it in their applications for different search…

Why we didn’t choose QLDB for a healthcare app

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedWhy we didn’t choose QLDB for a healthcare app I have been working with a US client to build a first-of-its-kind application to manage your consent to share your data amongst healthcare providers in your state. The project falls within HIPAA, so we need to meet all the HIPAA compliance requirements, including…

Amazon FSx for Lustre Now Supports AWS Graviton2-based Instances

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAmazon FSx for Lustre Now Supports AWS Graviton2-based Instances Amazon FSx for Lustre now enables you to use the world’s most popular high-performance file system from Amazon EC2 instances powered by Arm-based AWS Graviton2 processors. This capability makes it easier and even more cost-effective to run workloads where speed matters, such as…