COGNIZANT CLOUD SERVICES
POWER NEXT GENERATION HYBRID STORAGE AND DATA SOLUTIONS WITH COGNIZANT AND AWS
Cognizant draws on the power of Amazon Web Services
(AWS) to provide an array of hybrid cloud storage and data
solutions. The agility, scalability and cost effectiveness
of cloud storage enables us to design solutions without
constraints. Your organization can experience optimal
storage performance and features while still reducing overall
storage costs.
KEY FEATURES AND BENEFITS
Cognizant hybrid cloud storage features and benefits on
AWS include:
• Assured data protection leveraging AWS service level
agreements
• Reduced time-to-store, backup, archive, recover and
retrieve to accelerate use of data in analytics and
applications, so new products and services get to market
faster
• Strong data platform for business continuity and disaster
recovery environments
• Secure, reliable, dependable and cost-effective cloud
backup replaces risky tape drives and other physical
media
• Ensure secured and optimized data transactions by
deduplication, encryption and compression
AT A GLANCE
Digital data in all its forms continues its
explosive growth. Managing that data
effectively becomes critical to a company’s
ability to drive innovation and deliver great
customer experiences.
Cognizant leverages AWS Cloud and best-in-
class tools from its rich partner ecosystem to
provide flexible, scalable and secure hybrid
storage and data solutions that enable
organizations to transform their applications in
both on-premises and on cloud with the power
of AWS.
Turn data into a business accelerator with
Cognizant and AWS hybrid cloud storage and
data solutions.
ACCELERATE DIGITAL BUSINESS WITH THE AWS CLOUD
• Built-in cloud security and industry-specific compliance
measures.
• Complete end-to-end platform for Big Data and
Analytics: Collect, store, process, analyse, visualize and
exploit visualize big data easily and quickly
• Ingest, store and explore almost unlimited data on
AWS Cloud with cost-effective and seamless data lake
solutions
AWS HYBRID CLOUD STORAGE AND DATA SOLUTIONS
Primary Storage: We leverage AWS storage gateway,
Amazon S3, Amazon EBS, Amazon EFS and partner
solutions for virtually unlimited and automatically scalable
amounts of active data storage. These solutions are
integrated into our managed services framework powered
by Cloud360, a comprehensive platform for end-to-end
cloud monitoring and management.
Data Protection Solutions: We leverage innovative
niche solutions from our partners that exploit the wide
range of AWS storage features including Amazon EBS,
Amazon S3, Amazon S3-IA and Amazon Glacier. Our
Backup and Recovery solutions transform complex
backup environments to reduce cost and minimize effort
while increasing durability, reliability and flexibility. These
solutions are boosted with performance accelerators such
as deduplication, compression, etc., and include encryption
for security and compliance requirements.
Data Archival Solutions: Low-cost yet highly durable
storage services such as Amazon S3, Amazon S3-IA and
Amazon Glacier reduce time, cost and data volume by up to
90% and shrink retrieval time from days to minutes.
Remote Office and Branch Office Solutions: We
optimize bandwidth, speed data access, reduce time-to-
provision, improve application performance, meet mobility
requirements and centralize management with storage
solutions for your remote locations and branches. We
leverage accelerators such as WAN optimizers and caching
appliances integrated with a wide range of AWS storage
services and our Cloud360 platform for Cloud monitoring
and management.
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR): We
build powerful, proactive end-to-end Business Continuity
and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) solutions. We continuously
monitor the solution to ensure disaster readiness; monitor
your infrastructure for issues; and enable pre-emptive
seamless switchovers to disaster recovery sites. Solutions
can encompass scenarios such as on-premises to AWS;
AWS to AWS; and any Cloud to AWS.
Big Data Solutions: We build big data solutions by
integrating a wide range of services from AWS such as
Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, AWS DynamoDB, Amazon
EMR, Amazon Kinesis Firehose, AWS Data Pipeline etc.
We use best-in-class partner tools for building big data
solutions, powered by Cognizant’s innovative approach,
effortlessly collect, store, process, analyse and visualize
the data and gain valuable insights into your business data.
Data Lake Solutions: We make the lives of the developers
and data scientists easy by building innovative large scale
data lake solutions by integrating AWS services such as
Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, AWS DynamoDB, Amazon
QuickSight, AWS Data Pipeline, Amazon Elasticsearch, AWS
Lambda etc., and partner tools leveraging Cognizant’s rich
set of IPs and blueprints.
AmazonEFS
AWSSnowball
AmazonGlacier
AmazonS3
AmazonEBS
AWS StorageGateway
AmazonRedshift
AWSDynamoDB
AWSLambda
AWS DirectConnect
AmazonCloudFront
AmazonElasticsearch
Service
AmazonEMR
AmazonKinesis
AWS DatePipeline
AmazonQuickSight
Transformation Services
Cloud Steps 2.0 framework
IPs and Assets
Managed ServicesCloud Governance, ApplicationMigration Foundry, CloudManagement Fabric, SLAs,Monitoring & Billing, Integrationwith on-premise resources
• Primary Storage Solutions
• Data Protection Solutions
• Data Archival Solutions
• Remote Office Solutions
• Business Continuity and
• Disaster Recovery (BCDR)
• Data Lake Solutions
• Big Data Solutions
Partner EcosystemBest-in-class tools from partners
AcceleratorsBuild factory, Applicationmigration factory, Partner tools
AWS Solutions Cognizant Value Propositions Cognizant Use Cases
CASE STUDY
The Client
The client is a global advance clinical, analytical and
technical product for Healthcare.
Scope
The client specializes in the development of advance
clinical, analytical and technical products for Healthcare
and has engaged Cognizant to assist with the assessment
and migration of their IT infrastructure on AWS Cloud.
Cognizant Solution
The client’s AWS environment consists of production,
staging, testing and development to reside in virtual private
cloud (VPC) of client’s choice based on AWS region. All
VPCs will leverage multiple availability zones (AZs) to allow
for data backup and HA capabilities. All infrastructure and
application components will be self-sustained in the VPC.
The migration was carried out in multiple phases:
• Phase 1
Theon Web, application server and database: This phase
includes migration of data into database.
• Phase 1.5
Creation of Aver and Mirth applications interfacing
with instances created in phase 1: This phase involves
creation of a No SQL database to be utilized in future
for data analytics.
• Phase 2
High impact migration: This phase involved setting up
the client portal.
• Phase 3
Portal Creation: Marketing portals for client and
SharePoint in AWS were created in this phase.
BenefitsData Center
10 TB
On-PremiseServers
AWS Cloud
EBS Volumes
S3 Bucket
Amazon S3
AWSImport / Export
IPSec VPN
VPC 10 TB transferred through AWS export / import
To consider establishing direct connect connectivity between AWS and data center as the bandwidth requirement increased in future when the number of products in production environment increases
Data ingestion for cloud workloads
Snapshot backup for EBS volumes
Staging for cloud data management tools
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Architecture
Key Benefits
• Storage migration that involved moving of ~10 TB of
data to AWS
• Optimally used Amazon EBS storage, Amazon EBS
snapshots and Amazon S3 storage during migration
• Vertica DB cluster migration with negligible interruption
• Pragmatic approach to cloud transformation starting
with high value workloads
• Highly scalable systems based on workloads
• Lower cost of IT infrastructure and operations
• Improved SLAs and qualities of service
For more details on the overall solution implementation, please refer https://www.cognizant.com/cognizant-campaign/
healthcare analytics company.pdf
ABOUT COGNIZANT
Cognizant (NASDAQ-100: CTSH) is one of the world’s leading professional services companies, transforming clients’ business, operating and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant is ranked 205 on the Fortune 500 and is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com or follow us @Cognizant.
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WHY COGNIZANT AND AWS
Cognizant is a Premier Consulting Partner for AWS, with over 2000 AWS practitioners, including more than 1000
certified professionals. We are also an AWS Channel Reseller, an AWS Managed Services Partner, AWS Migration
Acceleration Program (MAP) Partner and an AWS Marketplace Reseller. In addition to this, Cognizant has accredited
status with AWS for Service Delivery, Healthcare and Life Sciences, Financial Services, Migration Competency, Big
Data, Workspaces and SharePoint.
Choose Cognizant and AWS to gain industry leading partners with proven solutions. We’ll blend our system integration
capabilities, accelerators, frameworks, and toolkits with our advisory, implementation and managed services along
with best-in-class AWS Cloud computing technologies and services to deliver a reliable, flexible cloud infrastructure
that will drive business acceleration and transform your organization.