8K Miles' Response to RFP - NCPA

2. Reengineering applications to be elastic. An example of this service is to make sure that
the user sessions are not affected when application servers are added or removed based
on load.
3. Identify steady-state utilization of instances after reengineering and purchase reserved
instances to avail 30–50% cost savings over on-demand instances.
1. Decompose relational databases and use less expensive and more effective solutions such
as SimpleDB or DynamoDB where applicable.
8KMiles also provide a set of Value-Added Solutions that can be customized to Region 14 and
NCPA members as described the next subsection.
8KMiles will provide Region 14 and NCPA members value-added solutions that leverage the
AWS platform. Our unique, valued-added solutions have been designed to provide enterpriselevel
cloud security, mobile collaboration, and large-scale data analytics solutions that can be
tailored to Region 14 and NCPA-specific member’s cost, security profile, and technical
requirements. Due to our ability to highly tailor these solutions, pricing will be quoted based on
the NCPA specific requirements.
In this era of on-demand mobile computing, there are more and more requests for making sure
that the distribution of information (personal information and otherwise) onto mobile devices is
protected and secure. Whether we are talking about personal information like social security
numbers, credit card information, or addresses and phone numbers; about personal health
information exchanged between physicians and patients; or even about homework assignments,
student projects, and grades at all levels of education, the security of our own data is critically
important.
8KMiles has designed, developed, and deployed a packaged secure virtual private cloud (S-VPC)
framework that provides assurance of information protection (see Figure 4). As described in
subsection 5.7.1, the Amazon VPC lets customers provision a private, isolated section of the
AWS Cloud. We have integrated a front-end user layer using a Sophos unified threat
management suite. The suite provides firewall services, intrusion protection/detection services,
secure virtual private network (VPN) connectivity, packet filtering, and web application firewall
protection not available via AWS standard offerings. This front-end protects against denial-ofservice
attacks, worms, and hacker exploits; secures email from spam and viruses; filters web
browsing; and provides wireless network protection. An application layer leverages the pay-peruse
approach and elastic AWS services infrastructure in the S-VPC to deliver a scalable and
highly available collaboration solution. Data is encrypted while at rest whether in RDS for
Oracle or RDS for SQL Server. We recommend that each client manages the keys for data
encryption within their own corporate data center with oversight provided by their system
administrators. System administrator access control is provided through the Xceedium Xsuite
Cloud identity and access management solution. This suite supplements the AWS Management
Console by vaulting administrator credentials, enforcing separation of duties, and recording all