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Sycomp Experts Discuss HPC, AI and Storage with theCUBE

December 1, 2023 Joanne

Sycomp Experts Discuss HPC, AI and Storage with theCUBE

The Sycomp HPC team made waves at SC23, which took place in Denver, CO, from November 12-17. Sycomp showcased our patented solution, Sycomp Storage fueled by IBM Storage Scale, across Azure, Google Cloud, and the forthcoming IBM Cloud integration. Catch Sycomp and other industry cloud leaders share their insights and advice on HPC, storage, AI and cloud computing on theCUBE.

Scott Fadden, Sr. Solutions Architect, HPC & Storage, Sycomp and John Zawistowski (JZ), Global Systems Solutions Executive, Sycomp, join theCUBE host Rebecca Knight in this segment of SC23.

John Zawistowski (JZ), Global Systems Solutions Executive, Sycomp; Leon Platts, Vice President – IBM Cloud High-Performance Computing; and Hugo Saleh, Head of HPC, Director of Product, Google Cloud in The Cube’s live coverage at SC23.

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Datasheet: Well-Architected Framework Review

June 7, 2023 Joanne Tutana

Sycomp Well-Architected Framework Review

The Well-Architected Framework Review (WAFR) is an assessment based on a set of concepts, design principles, and architectural best practices. These are aimed to help customers design, build, and operate secure, reliable, and efficient infrastructure for their workloads on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

By following the principles outlined in the AWS Well-Architected Framework, Sycomp can assist customers with building a strong foundation for their applications, reduce risk, and improve the overall performance and cost- effectiveness of their infrastructure.

Realize the Value of AWS Architectural Best Practices

Gain an understanding of the pros and cons that apply to the decisions made when building and operating systems on AWS. The guidance provided by the AWS Well-Architected Framework will be able to measure your architectures against proven best practices and rapidly identify areas that need improvement.

Identify Improvement

Regularly review the state of workloads to identify improvement opportunities across the six pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework.

Cost Savings

Save money by shutting down under-utilized or orphaned instances and receive up to $5,000 in service credits from AWS.

Accelerate Innovation

Help your cloud architects to build and operate secure, high- performing, resilient, and efficient application infrastructures.

Optimize Workloads With AWS Well-Architected

Accelerate modernization by building and operating secure, high- performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure for systems using the AWS Well-Architected Framework. Sycomp will work with you to evaluate architectures for high-risk issues and offer improvement plans based on AWS Well-Architected Framework best practices.

6 Pillars of the Well-Architected Framework:

Sycomp Well-Architected Service Now Available in AWS Marketplace

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Sycomp Achieves AWS Storage Competency Status

May 6, 2020 Joanne

Sycomp Achieves AWS Storage Competency Status

May 6, 2020

Sycomp Achieves AWS Storage Competency Status

Foster City, CA, May 5, 2020– Sycomp, A Technology Company has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Storage Competency status. This designation recognizes that Sycomp provides proven architecture and deployment skillsets to help customers successfully achieve their storage goals on AWS.

Achieving the AWS Storage Competency differentiates Sycomp as an AWS Partner Network (APN) member that possess deep domain expertise in one or more of the following core storage categories – Backup & Recovery, Primary Storage, Archive, or Business Continuance/Disaster Recovery (BCDR), having developed innovative technology and solutions that leverage AWS services. To receive the designation, APN Partners must possess deep AWS expertise and deliver solutions seamlessly on AWS.

“Our relationship with AWS continues to expand, and we are finding new opportunities and solutions to support our clients with our well-established skillsets,” said Allen Shahdadi, Vice President of Global Sales at Sycomp. “As our clients transform toward hybrid infrastructure, and utilize cloud for more data needs, we are proud to be recognized for the expertise and support we provide in their journey towards success on AWS.”

Sycomp has an extensive background in storage solutions in AWS and hybrid environments. Sycomp offers cloud storage solutions varying from optimizing cloud spend to migrating applications to a secure public cloud architecture. Their cloud solutions are designed to save money, make organizations more secure, improve application performance, and make cloud adoption easier.

AWS is enabling scalable, flexible, and cost-effective solutions from startups to global enterprises. To support the seamless integration and deployment of these solutions, AWS established the AWS Competency Program to help customers identify Consulting and Technology APN Partners with deep industry experience and expertise.

About Sycomp – Delivering Technology and Enterprise Security Solutions Globally. For more than 20 years, Sycomp has successfully created, delivered, and implemented complex IT solutions for the global marketplace. Internationally recognized, Sycomp is located in over 30 countries throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and South America.

Find Sycomp on the AWS Partner Network (APN) .

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Gartner Lists AWS 2019 leader on Cloud Infrastructure

July 23, 2019 Joanne

Gartner Lists AWS 2019 leader on Cloud Infrastructure

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The 2019 Magic Quadrant report named Amazon Web Services (AWS) as one of the top leading providers for cloud Infrastructure as a Services (IaaS).

“The market views both AWS and Microsoft as being general-purpose providers capable of supporting a broad range of workloads,” pulled from the Gartner 2019 report published last week. “Google is making steady progress in terms of enterprise adoption, but it remains in a distant third place in terms of overall annual revenue and interest among Gartner’s enterprise clients. All other vendors in this market are forced to focus on regional dominance or niche workloads given the momentum of AWS and Microsoft, and the scale at which they operate.”

Gartner listed AWS strengths as including:

Enterprises make larger annual financial commitments and deploy more mission-critical workloads on AWS than with any other hyper-scale provider.
AWS has a broader range of customer profiles, ranging from startups and small and midsize businesses (SMBs) to large enterprises, than any other provider in this market.
AWS is the most mature, enterprise-ready provider, with the strongest track record of customer success and the most useful partner ecosystem.

>>Learn more about AWS Storage Solutions

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Create a Secure, High-Availability Primary Storage Solution on AWS

June 15, 2019 Joanne

Create a Secure, High-Availability Primary Storage Solution on AWS

By leveraging Amazon Web Services (AWS) primary storage solutions, organizations can store business-critical data on AWS in a secure, durable, high-performance environment. Primary storage solutions enable you to run the same products you use on-premises but on AWS with identical feature sets, capitalizing on all the inherent advantages that AWS provides, including high availability.

Our Recommended Primary Storage Services via AWS:

AMAZON ELASTIC COMPUTE CLOUD (AMAZON EC2)
An AWS service designed to provide secure, resizable compute capacity on the cloud, ideal for developers that require cost-efficient, reliable, and easily scalable compute capacity

AMAZON ELASTIC BLOCK STORE (AMAZON EBS)
Elastic block storage meant for data that changes relatively frequently and needs to persist beyond the life of an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance

AMAZON SIMPLE STORAGE SERVICE (AMAZON S3)
Reliable, durable primary object storage designed to store and access any type of data from anywhere on the web. Available for use as primary storage or in an S3 Standard – Infrequent Access model for colder data

AWS STORAGE GATEWAY
Hybrid cloud storage service with local integration, providing a multi-protocol storage appliance with all data persistent in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

Advantages of Leveraging AWS and Sycomp for implementing your Primary Storage Solution

- AN EASY ON-RAMP TO A HYBRID PRIMARY STORAGE SOLUTION AWS – and Sycomp solutions help organizations take advantage of the cloud without re-architecting applications.
- LOWER CAPEX INVESTMENTS – Storage on AWS becomes an operating expense, and reduces the need for local infrastructure, investments, and time-consuming optimizations. Ease of scalability allows you to avoid over-provisioning storage up front, eliminate recurring upgrade cycles and paying for under-utilized assets.
- DATA SECURITY AND DURABILITY – APN Partner solutions offer features, including security elements, which allow customers to achieve compliance with the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HPIAA) and other compliance requirements quickly. These solutions leverage Amazon S3, which is designed for 99.999999999% durability and store data for millions of applications used by every industry.

>>Learn more about AWS Storage Solutions

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Case Study: Backup & Archive with AWS

April 18, 2019 Joanne Tutana

Case Study: Backup & Archive with AWS

Case Study, Cloud

Scalable, cost effective file sharing and data archiving.

Company:

Partners:

Challenge:

Mygrant Glass required a scalable, cost-effective file sharing and data archiving solution to meet their needs as they continue to grow. As their customer base increased across the US, their NFS file shares were running out of space and the costs to add more storage were increasing. The client also needed to upgrade their backup strategy while lowering their backup costs. Their tape backups were becoming unmanageable and too expensive to store offsite.

Solution:

By carefully evaluating the client’s current backup and archiving strategies and performing costs analysis, Sycomp proposed replacing NFS File shares with Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) and Amazon S3 Glacier for backup and archiving. The client engaged Sycomp’s professional services to architect, design, and deploy all the resources needed to implement Amazon EFS allowing the client’s IT team to focus on their daily tasks with minimal disruption.Sycomp also implemented automation to ensure the backups of data to Glacier would happen on a recurring schedule.

Benefits & Results:

Replacing their NFS file share with Amazon EFS provided the client with the amount of storage they need, the instant they need it. Backing up their data on Amazon EFS with S3 Glacier reduced their costs of storing archived data when compared to storing tape backups offsite.

Save an estimate of 20% on NFS costs and archived data storage
With EFS pay per use model, costs are predictable as they scale

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Case Study: Endpoint Backup with AWS

April 16, 2019 Joanne Tutana

Case Study: Endpoint Backup with AWS

Case Study, Cloud

Easy, cost-effective endpoint backup solution.

Partners:

Challenge:

Ouster was looking to find an economic solution for backing up their productivity and collaborative cloud applications. As a growing company with over 200 employees, the need for a dependable endpoint backup solution increased. With hundreds of endpoint devices, this exposed a high risk and high probability for data loss.

Solution:

The customer wanted a backup solution that was cost effective, easy to manage, and well-integrated with their current set of cloud applications. After careful evaluation and review of current cloud environment, Sycomp proposed Druva inSync paired with Amazon S3 as the backup solution for their cloud applications. Already built on AWS and compatible with G Suite among other cloud applications, Druva inSync fulfills both Endpoint Data Protection and Cloud Application Backup and Archival needs for the client. With Druva inSync the client is able to backup and store all the company’s endpoint data securely and cost-effectively to Amazon S3.

The client engaged Sycomp’s professional services team to design, architect, and implement the solution saving the client’s technical staff valuable time.

Benefits & Results:

High performance backup, remote wipe and geo-location of laptops and smart devices
Protection and governance for G Suite and collaborative cloud applications
No hardware implementation – moved from CAPEX to OPEX model
Reliable and secure cloud application backup for invaluable endpoint data

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Why Backup and Restore on AWS?

Gallery March 15, 2019 Joanne

Why Backup and Restore on AWS?

Why Backup and Restore on AWS?

Facilitate faster backup times through automated policies and easier data recovery, and reduce the need to provision and maintain on-premises infrastructure. Here we list some of the key challenges customers experience when determining a Backup and Restore strategy:

Address Data Growth
As more businesses understand the value of data, data growth and increased diversity of data can work against storage optimization solutions such as deduplication and compression. Existing backup and restore solutions become more expensive, both in personnel time and licensing. Customers have seen reduction in up-front CapEx investment and capacity planning challenges and are able to eliminate bottlenecks and constraints of on-prem systems.

Restore
Utilizing tape media, restores can often involve unpredictable elements such as delivery equipment malfunction and more opportunities for user error. Unreliable processes create obstacles to RTO attainment, reduce business performance and agility, and leave organizations at risk of non-compliance.

With AWS, customers can experience faster data recovery, maintain control of where their data resides, and minimize network latency.

Scale
Over-provisioning storage resources for backup workloads aims to solve for uncertainty around peak demand, and inefficiently allocates idle resources during steady-state periods. In spite of adequate resources, many solutions still require forklift migrations, cannot avoid periods of downtime, and increase risk of data loss.

With AWS customers can use and pay for only what they need. Gain the ease of scaling resources up or down on-demand as workload needs fluctuate. Eliminate bottlenecks and constraints with online, distributed data storage and ensure data is safe with instant replication.

Reduce Cost
Customers tell us conventional procurement of software licenses is slow, ongoing maintenance and refresh costs are unreasonably high, and purchasing agreements often require up-front commitments.

With a flexible pay as you go model, customers can reduce up-front investment and the need to over-provision. Automate data movement to less expensive tiers of storage and lower total cost of ownership.

SIMPLIFY BACKUP AND RESTORE
Sycomp helps you build secure, eﬃcient, and cost-eﬀective backup and restore solutions using oﬀerings you know and trust, with the scale and reliability of the AWS Cloud.

Build secure, efficient, and cost-effective backup and restore solutions with AWS
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard –IA), and Amazon S3 Glacier facilitate faster backup times through automated policies and easier data recovery, and reduce the need to provision and maintain on-premises infrastructure.

Learn more about AWS Storage Solutions

Sycomp Experts Discuss HPC, AI and Storage with theCUBE

Case Study: Disaster Recovery Modernization with Amazon S3

Realize the Value of AWS Architectural Best Practices

Identify Improvement

Cost Savings

Accelerate Innovation

Optimize Workloads With AWS Well-Architected

6 Pillars of the Well-Architected Framework:

Sycomp Well-Architected Service Now Available in AWS Marketplace

Sycomp Achieves AWS Storage Competency Status

Sycomp Achieves AWS Storage Competency Status

Gartner Lists AWS 2019 leader on Cloud Infrastructure

Gartner Lists AWS 2019 leader on Cloud Infrastructure

Create a Secure, High-Availability Primary Storage Solution on AWS

Create a Secure, High-Availability Primary Storage Solution on AWS

Case Study: Backup & Archive with AWS

Case Study: Endpoint Backup with AWS

Why Backup and Restore on AWS?

Why Backup and Restore on AWS?