Amazon Web Services (AWS), recently announced support for PowerShell Core 6.0 in the Lambda serverless computing platform. Microsoft has developed PowerShell Core, an open-source, cross-platform automation platform for Linux, Windows, and macOS. Version 6.0 was released in January, and version 6.1 was released just this month. AWS announced PowerShell Core support for Lambda in 6.0,…
Month: October 2022
AWS IDs Competent Partners in New Cloud Management Tool Competency
Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), has added a category to its competency program to highlight those partners who are skilled in certain areas. In this case, it is cloud management tools. The new Cloud Management Tools Competency identifies AWS Partners with expertise in three areas: Cloud Governance, Administration & Provisioning, and Resource & Cost Optimization….
AWS, IBM, and Azure Top-Ranked In Big Data Study A study that evaluated the user satisfaction of Big Data vendors found that Amazon Web Services (AWS) received the highest scores. Next came IBM and Microsoft Azure. Info-Tech Research Group subsidiary SoftwareReviews compiled the study in February. It rated seven Big Data software vendors in four categories: vendor capabilities and product features, likelihood to recommend, and “net emotional footprint”, which assesses each vendor’s fairness and trustworthiness based on user perceptions. These four scores were then combined to create a “composite Score” for each vendor. AWS’ Big Data portfolio was the best-performing vendor, scoring 8.1 out 10 in a composite score. AWS was followed by IBM InfoSphere, Azure, and both received 8 out of 10. SoftwareReviews placed AWS in the “Leader” quadrant of its study. [Click on the image for a larger view] The company stated that each of the three winners in big data received a very high Net Emo Footprint score, ranging from 82% to 85%, which is significantly higher than the average score (77%).” “Amazon Web Services Big Data users loved its analytics, data science tools and data security the most, earning top product for each. IBM InfoSphere was voted the best product for metadata management and second for its real-time capabilities. Microsoft Azure Big Data was the top-ranked product for workload management, monitoring, analytics and reporting. The scores of the remaining vendors were as follows:
Hortonworks: 7.9 of 10 Cloudera: 7.9 of 10 SAS: 7.8 out 10 Vertica: 7.5/10 SoftwareReviews used “feedback from IT professionals and business professionals” to compile the data for its vendor rankings. A preview of the findings can be found here.
AWS How-To: How to Use AWS To Host WordPress
Although it’s easy to think of Amazon Web Services as a solution for hosting virtual machines, allocating cloud storage, and other IaaS-related tasks Amazon Web Services can also be used for Web applications hosting. AWS makes it easy to create your WordPress site. Log into AWS and click on the Elastic Compute Cloud option to…
AWS How-To Part 2: Using AWS Enterprise Document Storage
In the first part, I discussed how Amazon Web Services (AWS), WorkDocs could help with enterprise document storage. You can also learn how to create a directory environment. I will continue the discussion with this article by showing you how to use your directory environment to create WorkDocs. Once you have created or specified a…
AWS How-To Part 1: Using AWS Enterprise Document Storage
You can read Part 2 here. Amazon Web Services (AWS), a cloud platform that provides a wide range of storage options, includes Glacier and Simple Storage Service (S3). There are options such as Simple Storage Service (S3) and Glacier, as well as Elastic Block Stores (EBS) that can be used to store data. What if…
How to Maximize your Training Budget. In this informative webinar you will learn about the most popular and overlooked ways that professionals and organizations can purchase training to be more resilient.
Instructor: Ryan Day and Zane Schweer Ryan Day and Zane Schweer are determined to make the lives of learning and development professionals, training managers, and IT professionals who supervise training easier. They provide insights and best practices for how Global Knowledge approaches training. It will be easier for you to overcome budget cuts that would…
How to manage project quality (without a Quality Plan).
Quality plans were absent from any of my projects last year. Shocked? The project teams delivered high-quality results on time and within budget. We didn’t achieve this without quality plans. A quality plan is a document that defines what quality means for a project and how it will achieve it. This could include peer reviews,…
Part 2: Managing in a Matrix Structure: Dealing With the Challenges
In my last post on project management in a matrix structure, I shared 4 challenges. These are the challenges that I want to discuss this week. This was the topic Shilpa Arora (PMP) spoke about at a Women in Technology event. These were the 4 challenges she talked about: Authority lacking For you and your…
How to manage in a Matrix Structure Part I: Understanding the Matrix
Most projects operate within a matrixed environment. Project managers are rarely responsible for the direct management of all or any of the project team members. How can we get things done best when we don’t have control over the team? This article will explain matrix management and the problems it causes for project managers. It’s…