## Advantages of Enterprise Cloud Computing for Mid-Tier Enterprises

By: Jim Blizzard  
DISCLAIMER: Impact Makers is a consulting firm focused on Mid-Tier Enterprises (MTEs) as well as Fortune 500 companies offering services that enable our clients to realize the benefits of migrating to cloud computing. Impact Makers offers services...

## Advantages of Desktop as a Service

By Kevin Cox, AWS SAA, CCSK Lead Consultant, Impact Makers  
Why use Desktop as a Service? Desktop as a Service, or ‘DaaS’, represents computers that you access over a network and remotely control just like a normal computer. That network could be the internet or a...

## How can I verify my EC2 instances are patched in AWS?

By Kevin Cox, AWS SAA, CCSK Lead Consultant, Impact Makers  
The typical process of patching on-premise systems Most IT environments have a requirement to keep systems up to date on vendor patches. Typically, in on-premise environments there are dedicated systems that...

## What is technical debt & how can I avoid it in AWS?

By Kevin Cox, AWS SAA, CCSK Lead Consultant, Impact Makers  
What is technical debt? The term “technical debt” originated from Ward Cunningham, one of the authors of the Agile Manifesto. He once said that some problems with code are like financial debt. Technical debt...

## Inform Decisions with Master Data Management: A Primer

Master data represents some of the most valuable information shared across an organization such as customer, vendor, product, and employee data. It tends to be static and non-transactional in nature, meaning it doesn’t change very often. Master data may also include...