With over 1100 product and service updates from AWS in 2022 alone, you may have missed some of the more important notifications from the cloud services giant. Luckily, SPK’s team is here to provide you with a summary of the latest and greatest from Amazon Web...
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Azure And AWS Cost Optimization 2022
This rate of cloud adoption comes with benefits and challenges. The cloud brings agility, scalability and efficiency to people worldwide. However, a bit of creative thinking is needed to allow for AWS (Amazon Web Services) cost optimization. Why? Because businesses...
Bitdefender Antivirus In AWS – Top Five Advantages
Today, modern security tools including Bitdefender antivirus are known as EDR solutions (Endpoint Detection and Response). They are the next evolution of anti-virus software. Anti-virus software has always operated based on a “database” of malicious software...
How AWS Cloud Solutions Can Help Your Manufacturing Enterprise Maintain Its Competitive Edge
Executive Summary In 2020, public and private cloud-based solutions like Amazon Web Services surpassed traditional data centers in terms of overall spending. In 2017, nearly two thirds of spending went toward private cloud solutions. Cloud usage exploded in 2017, to...
Infrastructure as Code: Top 10 Do’s and Don’ts
The ability to scale a business is no longer solely defined by manpower, money, and on-premises infrastructure. Infrastructure as Code (IaC), in fact, has revolutionized the ability to scale and grow businesses globally. But what is IAC? How can migrating to it enable...
2022: The Year So Far Tech Review
There’s been a lot of innovation, software and product releases in the past six months alone. So, we are rounding up the best tech review and engineering releases for the first half of 2022. The tech forecast for 2022 was heavily influenced by how the world adjusted...
Protecting Device Storage Using Windows UWF
In this blog we'll explore how the Windows UWF, Unified Write Filter can help protect device storage against product cybersecurity. The Unified Write Filter (UWF) is a Windows native feature that ensures a system’s data remains as an unmodified, secure baseline. Data...
How To Start Your Manufacturing Hybrid Cloud Migration
How Hybrid Cloud solutions boost manufacturing businesses Hybrid cloud migration is becoming more and more prominent. Why? Well, the cloud has been proving its worth for years now. In particular, it showed exceptional value, capability and adoption at the peak of the...
10 Tips For Your Cloud Migration Strategy
Considering cloud migration to strengthen and grow your current on-prem capability? This blog is designed to help you identify a cloud migration strategy for your business. The cloud has become an essential element of digital transformation in businesses of all sizes....
Virtual Engineering Workstations or Desktops for Design Engineers?
https://youtu.be/_j3JAfVakME Overview Here is the VLOG transcript for Chris McHale, CEO of SPK, and Director of Engineering Ed Chung discussing vCAD reviews, use cases, and whether desktop is better than virtual. Your host Chris McHale – Co-founder and CEO of SPK and...
SPK Releases vCAD™
SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif., Jan. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SPK and Associates, LLC (SPK) is excited to announce the release of their new Virtual Engineering Platform – vCAD™. vCAD is an easy-to-use product that allows engineers to quickly set up and manage cloud workstations...
SPK’s vCAD Solution Increases Productivity, Security, and Savings
SPK helps a tech manufacturer to increase security and availability of its CAD systems and data by moving them to the cloud—while helping them to save $30k per year. The Client A well-known maker of power distribution units for IT racks and related equipment...