December 2019 Newsletter, Tidal Migrations

With respect to everyone’s well-earned time off, we’re sending off our December newsletter today to kick off the first full week back.

It’s been a whirlwind of a holiday season, but we’re back with more news from Tidal Migrations, and we’re coming in hot!

THIS MONTH’S HIGHLIGHT

AWS re:Invent Recaps

• The beginning of December took the team to Las Vegas where the vibe was so intense we needed 3 different perspectives just to make sure we had it all covered. Luckily, Jason Hurlbut, David Colebatch, and Phil Rees were on the case - check out their takes on an amazing week!

TIDAL WEBINARS

• If you’re looking to access our past webinars, they’re available on demand after you register. Topics include: ingesting your application portfolio, source code analysis and more.

CLOUD NEWS

• Tidal Migrations announces an agreement with Treehouse Software - It’s good to have friends! We’ve recently teamed up with Treehouse Software to make sure it’s smooth-sailing to the cloud for your mainframe-based legacy applications.
• Grand River Hospital builds data lake on AWS, achieves ‘seamless business continuity’ - There’s hope for healthcare yet! Grand River Hospital in Ontario, Canada migrates 3 terabytes of data (including sensitive patient information) and ends the use of 27 applications in a scalable, compliant shift to a data lake with AWS. Makes too much sense.
• Atlassian launches new serverless cloud development platform - Aussies Atlassian Software Development, known for their bug-tracking JIRA tool, gave developers a huge leg-up in cloud app development game for enterprises by announcing their very own development platform, Forge. Oh, and they integrate with Atlassian tools, too.
• Google makes moving data to its cloud easier - Planning a colossal move to the cloud? Google’s Transfer Service makes large-scale transfers faster, safer, and easier by taking care of the ins-and-outs of your data’s integrity validation. Don’t mind if you do, Google!
• Use third-party keys in the cloud with Cloud External Key Manager, now beta - Google can’t stop, won’t stop. They’re on their beta version of Cloud EKM, which allows you to keep your data fully separate from your encryption keys, beefing up that security.
• Cloud Covered: 2019 in Google Cloud - A rundown of Google’s most-viewed articles on the cloud in 2019 so you’re up-to-speed when you’re ready to conquer your migration goals in 2020. How can you not love a good Sunday reading list?

That’s all for 2019! If you’ve enjoyed reading this, please consider forwarding it and follow us on social media (links below) to stay up to date.

And in case you missed them, check out our past newsletters.

See you back after the first month of 2020!

-Tidal Migrations