Cloud Computing

How data lakes, data warehouses, and data marts fit into your cloud storage architecture

Understand the differences between data lakes, data warehouses, and data marts, and how they can meet your cloud data storage and analysis needs. This is the fourth article of our Big Data in the Cloud series. You can read the first three here: Big Data

Continuous Integration with AWS – Two Perspectives (videos)

Watch these two different approaches to building a continuous integration / continuous delivery process Continuous Integration – the process of automatically building and testing your code – is a crucial part of the modern software development process. In the age of cloud microservices, it can

SFTP Gateway is now live on AWS GovCloud!

Government agencies can now improve their IT operations by using SFTP Gateway to easily and securely transfer files and data to Amazon S3 SFTP Gateway is now live on AWS US GovCloud! Our product allows enterprises of all sizes, and now government agencies, easily and

SQL vs. NoSQL – what’s the best option for your database needs?

In choosing between SQL vs. NoSQL, you’ll need to think about what your data looks like, how you’ll query it, and your scalability needs.   This article on SQL vs. NoSQL is the third in our Big Data in the Cloud series.   In our

Overview of Amazon RDS – a hands-on video demo

This video is from the Columbia AWS Meetup held on September 21, 2017 and provides an overview of Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). In this presentation, Thorn Technologies CEO Jeff Thorn talks about: 1) How to launch a development instance of RDS2) How to connect

8 Things You Need to Do Before Kicking Off Your Cloud Big Data Initiative

Think about your objective, understand data requirements, select the right big data tools, and more This is the second article of our Big Data series. You can read the first one here: Big Data in the Cloud: Why Cloud Computing is the Answer to Your

AWS Well-Architected Framework, using Lambda@Edge to resize images on the fly, and more videos from the Columbia AWS Meetup

On December 11, 2018, members of the Columbia AWS Meetup presented short, quick-hitting Lightning Talks on various topics such as the AWS Well-Architected Framework and Tool, new product and feature announcements at AWS re:Invent 2018, and more. Here’s the title of each talk with links

Passwords vs. SSH keys – what’s better for authentication?

Both SSH key and password authentication have their pros and cons. Understand them to make the right choice for your company. Which is better for user authentication on an SFTP server – SSH keys or passwords? This has been a debate for decades. Both have

SFTP Gateway for AWS vs. AWS SFTP – A Comparison

AWS recently launched AWS Transfer for SFTP (or AWS SFTP, for short), a fully-managed service that transfers files into and out of Amazon S3 via SFTP. Sound familiar? Of course it does – it’s very similar to our file transfer product, SFTP Gateway for AWS!

Here’s What You Need to Know About PCI-Compliant File Transfers

Cardholder data is some of the most sensitive data around. Make sure you know the requirements you need to meet to ensure your file transfers are PCI-compliant. In our prior blog post, we reviewed HIPAA regulations and how our file transfer software products, SFTP Gateway