Cloud Misconfigurations Threaten Cloud Migration
If we’ve learned one thing during the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s that digital-native business models are essential to survival. That means cloud adoption is more important than ever before. Research shows that the public cloud market is expected to grow to $308.5 billion in 2021, an increase of 16% from 2020. But while the cloud holds […]
Rewind Acquires BackHub to Protect GitHub Repositories
Rewind, a provider of a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for backing up cloud services, today announced it has acquired BackHub to gain control of a platform for backing up GitHub repositories. Based in Germany, BackHub adds a data protection platform to a Rewind portfolio that includes offerings for backing up everything from QuickBooks to Shopify. Fresh […]
Lightstep Delivers Next Generation Observability Platform
Lightstep this week announced general availability of a Change Intelligence observability platform based on a time-series database that is capable of processing a trillion events each day. Ben Sigelman, Lightstep’s CEO, said as IT environments become more complex, thanks to the rise of microservices and cloud-native computing platforms, existing monitoring and observability tools will not […]
Overcoming Cloud Asset Management Challenges
Twenty years ago, no one in IT could have predicted the monumental role that cloud computing would play in our everyday lives. To play off the words of Back to the Future‘s Doc Brown: “On-premises? Where we’re going, we don’t need on-premises.” As technology continues to evolve, though, security teams face greater challenges. Infrastructure is […]
Moving Legacy Applications to the Cloud
Even in 2021, many companies still run business-critical, legacy applications on-premises, just as they have for the last 20 to 30 years. The midrange server hardware, and their unique architecture, on which many of these applications run is both their biggest drawback and biggest advantage; the benefits of being able to vertically scale a platform […]
Internal Makes On-Premises Edition of No-Code Tool Available
Internal today launched an on-premises edition of its eponymous no-code development platform that promises to simplify application development backlog reduction for enterprise IT organizations. Arisa Amano, CEO of Internal, said many professional developers regularly find themselves building simple applications that, if given access to the right tools, could be built instead by end users. Internal […]
How to Avoid Cloud Overspend
Cloud overspend can have a major impact on a company’s bottom line. Here’s what organizations need to know Cloud technology has reached the stage of mainstream adoption across multiple industries, be it finance, health care, manufacturing or retail. According to a Research and Markets report, the global cloud computing market is expected to grow further […]
How Cloud Data Platforms Help Enterprises Drive Business Value
Cloud data platforms make businesses more scalable and flexible and more cost-efficient The need for actionable data is nothing new. Enterprises spend time, money and resources working to get their data into a format that is usable for analytics. But most are still struggling to do just that. More than 90% of enterprises say that […]
How to Choose the Right IoT Cloud Provider
The flexibility and scale of cloud-native development makes it an obvious choice for IoT initiatives. That’s partly because IoT engineering tends to be more complex, requiring seamless interoperability between software, hardware, a UI, together with connectivity and data handling capabilities. Typical IoT initiatives are compute-intensive too, again making them a good fit with the functionality […]
How to Optimize Your Cloud Operations
Taking a holistic approach to cloud optimization and application modernization can help keep cloud spend in check There’s a fine line between cloud spend and cloud sprawl. Most companies today are using cloud technologies to power their most important products and services, communications and collaboration, but it’s easy to cross the line from spending smartly […]
What’s the Best Multi-Cloud Strategy for Your Organization?
Scaling your business needs robust solutions, and a multi-cloud strategy can exactly help you achieve that. There has been a debate on whether organizations should go for multi-cloud or stick to a single vendor. Recently, one of the users of Reddit posted a question, “Do you need a multi-cloud strategy?” Responses to the question offer […]
20/20 Network Visibility: Making Cloud Migration a Success
Organizations need to take a considered and gradual approach to cloud migration to ensure security and compliance For businesses to succeed in 2021 and beyond, agility and responsiveness are critical. Data is the new currency, and businesses need to be able to access theirs instantly and securely to make the rapid-fire business decisions that will […]
Cloud Orchestration Language Roundup: A Comparison
What cloud providers do you work with? Google Cloud Platform (GCP)? Amazon AWS? Microsoft Azure? Which services? Are you using a managed Kubernetes such as GKE, AKS, Openshift or EKS? How do you manage your cloud resources? How do you manage the release cycle of the infrastructure and applications that you deploy? If the above […]
How To Build Out a Successful Multi-Cloud Strategy
Navigating even just a single cloud environment can be complicated enough for any startup. Between understanding the range of features on offer, planning for expenditure and ensuring you have the right expertise to leverage the tool to its full potential, the thought of managing multiple clouds can seem daunting. However, whether your company is just […]
Optimize Performance, Cut Costs With AWS Autoscaling Services
A very easy (and free) way to get the get your money’s worth on the AWS Cloud platform is autoscaling. Autoscaling allows for better fault tolerance, better availability and better cost management, quickly scaling up and down to meet traffic demands while keeping your costs within budget by detecting and replacing the components that are […]
Are We There Yet? The Long, Hot Road Trip to the Cloud
“If I have to pull this car over, there will be trouble!” Does this sentence evoke childhood memories of summer adventures in the family car? It’s the same sort of dread we get when the IT budget-holder turns around and threatens to pull over on our journey to the cloud or hybrid cloud. The family […]
The Rise of the Cloud Economist: The Other CFO
The new Cloud Economist job title wrangles runaway cloud costs Have you ever forgotten about a subscription? Maybe it was that Amazon Fresh upgrade you never used, charging you monthly payments. Or, your phone carrier slyly tacked on a feature and it went unnoticed for years. All these charges may seem insignificant, but they mount […]
Custom Coding: An Obstacle Along the Hybrid Cloud Journey
If you’re like 80% of enterprises, you’re somewhere along a hybrid cloud journey. The imperatives of digital transformation, the emergence of DevOps as the de facto enterprise development methodology and the rapidly growing demand for continuous innovation have made hybrid cloud the go-to infrastructure for competitive enterprises. Hybrid Cloud Governance Requires Automation Despite hybrid cloud […]
Micro Focus Strengthens Hybrid Cloud Hand
Micro Focus has made available a multi-tenant cloud management platform that can be deployed in a public cloud or on-premises IT environment. Travis Greene, senior director for IT operations management at Micro Focus, said the Hybrid Cloud Management X (HCMX) platform makes it possible to unify the management of IT services across a hybrid cloud […]
Challenging Cloud Migration Myths in the Wake of COVID-19
The COVID-19 push to cloud migration, unfortunately, is riddled with myths. Here are some worth busting With a substantial increase in the number of businesses now operating from their employees’ homes, and organization leaders realizing that their office buildings are now somewhat unnecessary until a vaccination against the coronavirus is widely distributed, the cloud has […]
What It Takes to Succeed in a Multi-Cloud Environment
A multi-cloud strategy offers the best possible scenario for ensuring business continuity and helping improve innovation Business problems are not “one size fits all,” and neither are cloud architectures. Organizations are looking for specific solutions that deliver on their bespoke needs—a driver for many of them shifting from one cloud provider to working with multiple […]
Accurics Adds Compliance Control Support to Code Analyzer
Accurics, at the online KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2020 conference today, launched an update to its open source Terrascan static code analyzer that adds support for Open Policy Agent (OPA) engine to make it easier for developers to create custom compliance policies in addition to leveraging more than 500 out-of-the-box policies based on the CIS Benchmark. […]