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This week's Tech.pinions podcast features Ben Bajarin and Bob O'Donnell analyzing multiple announcements from Amazon's AWS re:Invent conference, including the launch of several new custom chips, discussing the impact of HP's and Dell's earnings and what it means for the PC market, and chatting about the new agreement that will let Apple Music work on Amazon Echo devices.
You can't deny that the two horses in the cloud race are Amazon's AWS and Microsoft's Azure, with AWS significantly out in front. But is there that huge a difference between the two? In this episode Jim and Alan sit down with Stefan Bauer, MIS Manager for Elephant Auto insurance who is responsible for their data warehousing and business intelligence both on-prem and in-cloud. Stefan is a veteran of both Azure and AWS architectures (having previously authored a book on AWS RedShift). Stefan discusses both cloud offerings, dispelling some myths along the way.
This week Trevor Barone gets together with local IT professional and small business owner Francisco Hernandez from Run Smarter IT. Francisco says it isn't always about an IT arms race with bigger badder technologies. Sometimes the best defenses are low tech, local solutions in the fight against cyber threats. For most business, their data, is their single most important asset. Back up solutions in the event of a ransomware attack or loss of integrity requires thinking outside the box. Cloud costs like Amazon's AWS have come down, but when it comes to large sets of data, owners and IT administrators should also consider regional storage options like SD Data Center in Rockledge Florida. Francisco spends much of his time analyzing and providing solutions on integration for local businesses. Investing in integrating different platforms to minimize duplicating input can provide enormous dividends. Watch this episode at: https://youtu.be/JvvfFhqF-XI https://idealimpactmedia.com/
Alphabet's CyberSecurity unit - Chronicle - gets the shine. Meanwhile, Amazon's AWS unit is the CyberSecurity giant that nobody talks about. Chronicle via the Verge: https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/24/16929320/google-x-cybersecurity-chronicle-spin-off-alphabet Graduation Day: Introducing Chronicle via Astro Teller on Medium: https://blog.x.company/graduation-day-introducing-chronicle-318d34b80cce
The U.S. healthcare system is a $3.2 trillion industry, and Amazon.com Inc. is positioning itself to take a share of it. In this segment, Internet Health Management editor Mark Brohan explains how e-retailing's leader is getting into the healthcare space more significantly--Amazon's AWS unit powers Healthcare.gov, for instance--and the waves it is creating for other healthcare players. Internet Health Management is Digital Commerce 360's news site that explores how the internet and e-commerce technology are changing how consumers research, pay for and manage healthcare.
This week Jesse and Kevin and talk about beer noise, tasty beverages, walking near rivers, silly sombreros, relative distances in Texas, gigantic gas stations with great bathrooms, three wolf moon t-shirts, Star Trek preschools, suit shopping, big and tall nook part 2, phones getting bigger, more trains, party buses, a variety of strippers with a variety of genders, space monkeys, Beyoncé getting robbed in the grammys, vinyl people, "I want" songs, EGOTs, Earth 2, trees are hands, eating human flesh in video games, MMORPGS, drugs. Links Jesse went to The Alamo, but missed the basement. Amazon's AWS went down and the internet was broken for a while. Susan J. Fowler's blog post kicked off a very bad couple of weeks for Uber. Boston Dynamics has a new nightmare robot. Kevin likes Janelle Monáe for her afrofuturism. (Watch this) The music of Coheed and Cambria tells a complex concept story. Ookla the Mok has a concept album about Gorilla City. Kevin really likes the Moana soundtrack. Kevin tries to explain the complicated family tree of The Flash. Jesse's favorite cartoon, Samurai Jack, returned for season 5 after a ten year hiatus. Kevin enjoys Touch the Skyrim. We used to play a lot of Eve Online and RuneScape.
Matt & Matt talk about using Amazon's AWS for hosting your FileMaker solutions. The new licensing model doesn't favor shared hosting anymore, so getting your own dedicated server may be easier with AWS. Audit logging is also a covered topic.
Alan and Jim talk about the ins and outs of making applications run faster and scale to handle lots of users. We compare the two choices for scaling applications: Vertical scaling (adding more resources to existing machines), versus Horizontal scaling (spreading the load across multiple machines). We also discuss Amazon's AWS and EC2 platforms versus Microsoft Azure.