Challenges with the Rapid Adoption of Cloud-Native Technologies
To keep pace with the ever-changing digital landscape, today’s enterprises are trying to move to the cloud as fast as possible. As more and more companies move toward implementing cloud native and open source technologies to enable agility and increased time-to-value, the operational impacts to the business can be significant. While these challenges can cause […]
Castles in the Cloud: How to Take Your Business Kingdom Off-Prem with Confidence
Cloud transformation requires migrating all or part of an organization’s virtual assets off-premises, typically to a public cloud. This enables greater efficiency and cost savings, among other benefits, but it brings heightened risk as well. At the same time, many organizations moving to the cloud don’t fully understand the implications in terms of security. Consequently, […]
Red Hat Updates OpenStack Platform
Red Hat today made available an update to its distribution of OpenStack that enables it to run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 operating system. Sean Cohen, senior manager for product management at Red Hat, said Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16 combines three releases of OpenStack, known as “Rocky,” “Stein” and “Train” into a […]
vArmour CEO: Cloud Security Needs Simplicity
Cloud computing promised cost savings and simplified IT management, among other things. In many ways, the cloud has lived up to its ideals, and in other ways, such as API security, shadow IT and the securing of clouds across hybrid environments, the cloud has proven challenging. To get a sense of how enterprises and security […]
SIOS Technology Automates Rebooting of AWS EC2 VM Instances
SIOS Technology Corp. this week launched SIOS AppKeeper, a tool that automatically reboots instances of EC2 virtual machines anytime they fail. Michael Bilancieri, senior vice president of products and marketing for SIOS, said SIOS AppKeeper is an extension of the work SIOS has historically done to enable servers and clusters to failover. However, many organizations […]
Perfect Sense Open Sources Gyro to Automate Cloud Provisioning
Perfect Sense has launched an open source project dubbed Gyro that provides an alternative approach to automating cloud infrastructure provisioning and management. Gyro was developed as an alternative to other open source projects such as Terraform and Pulumi, said CTO Jeremy Collins. It is designed from the ground up around a programming language that allows […]
The Disservice of Cloud Consolidation
There’s no secret that over the past five years especially, the major (“tier 1”) cloud infrastructure players—Amazon, Microsoft and Google—have been snatching up smaller specialty providers, particularly cloud migration and security services. While this acquisition strategy immediately aims to strengthen and expand the provider’s direct and tangential cloud infrastructure offerings, the long-term goal is customer […]