Posts tagged The Cloud
Transforming Business in the Cloud: Unlocking Potential in Application Development and Data Analytics

We find ourselves in an era where technology is evolving at an unprecedented speed, driving businesses to undergo a profound transformation to stay competitive. One significant shift in this transformation is the widespread adoption of cloud platforms. In this article we dive into the transformative potential of cloud technology, examining its impact on application revitalization and data analytics.

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Impact of Decentralization and Web3 using Cloud: From the Lens of PMsquare

Explore the revolutionary impact of decentralization and Web3 through the lens of PMsquare. Web3's security-focused distributed architecture empowers users with seamless control, fostering accessibility and digital expansion. PMsquare leverages Cloud Technologies to fuel this evolution, envisioning a landscape where decentralization intersects with Web3's potential.

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PMsquare’s Quantum Leap: Expanding through Cloud Services Acquisition

PMsquare acquires Quantum Leap Innovation as part of their continued investment into the cloud consulting space. Along with the acquisition comes the addition of a new member to the PMsquare leadership team, Sanjeev Pant. By uniting data analytics with cloud services, PMsquare is well-positioned to redefine the landscape of technology solutions for enterprises globally.

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Cognos Cloud vs On-Premise

With all the talk about cloud computing these days, does it really make sense to move your Cognos Analytics instance to the cloud? What functionality and benefits are gained or lost when doing so? What about when starting from scratch? What is the best option for your Cognos Analytics (CA) environment? There is no one-size-fits-all when it comes down to it. We’ll discuss the differences which, hopefully, will help you make an informed decision.

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Calculating On-Premise vs Cloud Costs

Many organizations struggle to figure out whether migrating to the cloud is the right financial decision. There are many questions that must be answered prior to making a final call. For example, what financial factors should be taken into consideration when deciding if your company should migrate to the cloud? How can you calculate the cost of running your operations in the cloud? What are the hidden costs associated with a cloud environment? How much will you be spending or saving every month by running your operations in the cloud instead of on-premise? The first step to answering any of the questions is to examine all costs associated with the current infrastructure.

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Reduce Cognos Install Times with AWS EC2 User Data and AMIs

Installing Cognos takes time. The more complex the environment, the more time it takes. The time spent running the Cognos installer is compounded by the number of environments that need to be created. Fortunately, there are options on AWS to help Cognos administrators get out of the business of waiting for the install to complete. The two options we will be exploring here are EC2 user data and custom AMIs.

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Cloud-Enable Your Legacy Applications

Many organizations have begun shifting their operations to virtual data centers, modernizing their applications to be cloud-enabled. But what exactly is “cloud-enabled,” and how can they adopt a new cloud architecture? Let’s dive into the meaning of the term and look at some examples to give a better understanding of how these applications can fit into a cloud deployment.

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Cognos on Cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP?)

Running workloads in the cloud is on everyone’s radar these days. Whether a company is already deployed on the cloud, actively migrating to the cloud, or just thinking about it. For many companies, taking advantage of the scale and the services that public clouds provide is becoming a critical piece of their infrastructure. However, these platforms are large and often complicated for companies looking at them for the first time.

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Introducing Cloud Data Delivery

PMsquare is proud to announce the formation of our new Cloud Data Delivery business unit. Cloud Data Delivery brings together decades of experience solving data pipeline, data warehousing, and business intelligence challenges from across the organization into a single entity focused on delivering cloud-first data solutions and migrating existing on-prem data warehouse and BI workloads to the cloud.

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AWS Data Warehousing (or, What To Do When You're Too Successful)

Everything is great. Business analysts are happy, operations is happy, management is happy. Everyone loves the data warehouse. Kudos! And then the data warehouse becomes a victim of its own success. Can we have some more? More data, more data sources, more queries, more reports, more dashboards, more-more-more. But with the same hardware, same staff, same budget, same service-level agreements. Pop quiz, hotshot -- what do you do?

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How to Save Report Outputs to a File System in Cognos Analytics

Oftentimes Cognos report output is needed to be consumed by many users in your organization. You could have them log into the portal and access the output directly but maybe you don’t have the time or expertise to be setting up users to access Cognos directly and then maintain all of those users. You could have the output emailed to them but you don’t want to clog up your mail server with hundreds of attachments. A good option could be to save the report outputs to your internal network or the cloud and have your users access them from there.

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Why the Cloud Was Made for Data & Analytics

The benefits of cloud computing are widely accepted these days, but we’re still in the early stages of organizations actually moving systems to the cloud. While all sorts of workloads can benefit from cloud computing, your data and analytics systems are a great place to start—or to look at next if you’re already on the cloud journey.

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