Red Hat Updates Virtualization Platform
Red Hat today announced an update to its virtual machine platform that now can run on the latest version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Version 4.4 of Red Hat Virtualization can now run on version 8.2 of RHEL. In addition, Red Hat has added Grafana-based dashboards for its Data Warehouse (DWH) service that IT […]
RackN Transforms Bare-Metal Servers Into a Cloud
RackN is making available an update to the RackN Digital Rebar Platform that will make it easier to employ tools such as Terraform to configure bare-metal servers. Company CEO Rob Hirschfeld said version 4.4 of the platform adds an application programming interface (API) that enables bare-metal servers to be abstracted into resource groups. IT administrators […]
3 Key Issues With Hybrid Cloud Transformation
The cloud has fractured. Nowadays, it is nearly impossible to scale a cloud-agnostic digital transformation initiative. The reality is that most enterprises adopt a hybrid cloud arrangement. Whether designed strategically or throughout years of competing vendors and technology influences, hybrid cloud environments, and the problems therein, seem a mainstay for modern IT. Many digital transformation […]
How to Achieve AWS Security in 10 Steps
Looking to lock down your AWS cloud service? Here are the 10 steps to take for AWS security As more companies embrace the cloud, security is becoming a more significant challenge. Irrespective of size, organizations are increasingly realizing the importance of having proper cloud security practices in place. More and more companies are creating a […]
Oracle Extends Managed Cloud to On-Premises
Oracle today announced it will make available as a managed service in on-premises IT environments all of the software it currently provides access to on Oracle Cloud. In addition, Oracle is making available Oracle Autonomous Database on Exadata Cloud@Customer, which brings a managed database service to the Exadata servers optimized to run Oracle databases. Oracle […]
Cloud Is Red Hot in the COVID-19 Era
As digital transformation accelerates, cloud services are helping organizations thrive in a COVID-19 world As the days tick by and the gloomy ramifications of COVID-19 become more apparent, one harsh truth has become crystal clear: Industries that have invested in digital transformation stand a better chance of recovery and survival than others. The banking industry […]
How to Overcome Challenges With AWS Lambda Logging
Monitoring AWS Lambda can be a complex and potentially costly endeavor. Here’s what you need to know to stay on track and on budget Organizations are already experiencing a shift toward serverless cloud computing. According to the O’Reilly “Serverless Survey 2019,” around 40% of respondents said they had implemented serverless architecture. Forrester “Global Business Technographics” […]
Nebulon Unveils Hybrid Cloud Computing Platform
Nebulon has emerged from stealth to launch a hybrid cloud computing platform that enables workloads to be processed in the cloud while data continues to be stored on a local application server. Company COO Craig Nunes said the Cloud-Defined Storage platform employs PCIe cards embedded with a Nebulon Services Processing Unit (SPU) based on an […]
Should I Stay or Should I Go? A Cloudy Decision
If you’ve been operating in the cloud for some time now, chances are your business has changed since you first made that move and particularly during the current climate. Has your cloud usage grown considerably — and your OpEx costs? Is that just the cost of doing business in the cloud? It doesn’t have to […]
NetApp Acquires Spot to Rein in Cloud Costs
NetApp this week announced it has acquired Spot, a provider of a service that enables IT teams to continuously optimize costs for cloud workloads. Anthony Lye, senior vice president and general manager for public cloud services at NetApp, said the Spot service is based on an application programming interface (API) that IT teams add to […]
CloudBolt Acquires SovLabs to Advance Hybrid Cloud Strategy
CloudBolt Software this week announced it has acquired SovLabs, a provider of a framework that extends the reach of automation frameworks from VMware. Company CEO Jeff Kukowski said that as a provider of a cloud management platform, the SovLabs framework will extend CloudBolt’s reach deeper into VMware environments that have already invested in automation tools […]
AWS Looks to Accelerate Windows Migrations to the Cloud
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ratcheting up pressure on Microsoft by devoting more resources to enable IT organizations to migrate Windows workloads to the cloud. Fred Wurden, general manager for enterprise engineering at AWS, said a Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) for Windows, now generally available, provides IT teams with prescriptive guidance, consulting support, tools, training […]
Morpheus Data Automates Hybrid Cloud Management
Morpheus Data has updated to its cloud management platform by making it easier to dynamically integrate different implementations of automation tasks created using different tools and frameworks any Git or GitHub repository. In addition, the company has expanded the operating systems it supports to include Amazon Linux 2, Red Hat Linux 8.x and SUSE Linux, […]
Dell Technologies Advances Hybrid Cloud Strategy
Dell Technologies, in collaboration with VMware and Google, today advanced its hybrid cloud strategy by making its CloudFS storage system available on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and adding support for VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid and VMware Cloud Foundation 4 to its VxRail hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) platforms for on-premises IT environments. Varun Chhabra, vice president of […]
Lucidchart Launches Tool to Visualize AWS Cloud Environments
Lucidchart today added a visualization tool that generates interactive diagrams of an IT organization’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment. Dan Lawyer, senior vice president of product at Lucidchart, said Lucidchart Cloud Insights makes it possible to automatically visualize all the services an organization is consuming from the cloud service provider, with support for other cloud […]
Cisco Aligns With Google to Meld DevOps and NetOps
The extension of a partnership between Cisco Systems and Google to drive tighter integration between their respective software-defined wide area network (SD-WANs) offerings and cloud platforms promises to accelerate the convergence of NetOps and DevOps. John Apostolopoulos, vice president and CTO for Intent-Based Networking Group at Cisco, said in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic […]
Do You Trust Your Cloud Provider to Protect Your Data? Maybe You Shouldn’t
Around the world, businesses are moving to the cloud at a rapid rate. But, is the cloud really the best place to store your mission-critical data and applications? Is it truly a safe place to put data and apps that need strong protection? The immediate answer from many companies is “yes.” A recent study by […]
How to Manage Data in Hybrid Cloud Environments
We’ve long-since established that multi-generational, multi-cloud environments are the new norm. But, how does one go about managing data in those environments? In this post, we’ll take a look at the ramifications of this hybrid cloud reality and best practices for managing your data for increased scalability and heightened availability. It’s All Cloud Whether it’s […]
Embracing the Journey to Public Cloud
One of the fascinating competitions in today’s business world is the one between the digital disruptors—companies whose business vision is rooted in technology and driven by the cloud—and the so-called incumbents. One sector where this competition is particularly intense is financial services. In this sector, the digital-first companies typically don’t compete with banks and other […]
Five Major Mistakes to Avoid in Enterprise Multi-Cloud Strategies
Employing a multi-cloud strategy is not as straightforward as it seems for enterprises due to the huge amounts of data and applications involved. Hence, mistakes are common in multi-cloud implementations. What are these mistakes and what can enterprises do to avoid them? The Growth of the Multi-Cloud The multi-cloud is now a staple in most […]
Three Priorities for IT Operations Continuity During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The world has been turned upside down amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, and organizations that are trying to maintain best IT and security practices are faced with new challenges such as sudden remote workforces, increased COVID-19-related phishing and business e-mail compromise scams, and quarantine-imposed travel restrictions. Are you facing disruptions in your workforce, limitations in the […]
Comparing Three Approaches to Multi-Cloud Security Management
Moving to a multi-cloud environment can bring many advantages, but it also brings huge challenges in managing both the everyday operations and security of multi-cloud infrastructures. To meet these challenges, several approaches to multi-cloud management have arisen. The most common can be roughly grouped into three categories: Cloud Management Platforms (CMPs), Infrastructure as Code (IaC) […]
Survey Finds More Data Disruption Occurring
A global survey of 1,000 IT decision-makers with more than 250 employees conducted by Dell Technologies finds on average organizations managed 13.53 petabytes (PB) of data in 2019, a nearly 40% increase since 2018. The same survey also finds that as the amount of data has increased, so, too, has the cost of downtime. Those […]