Tag: cloud infrastructure
Pulumi Moves to Automate Cloud Infrastructure Provisioning
Pulumi announced today it is expanding the scope of its automation ambitions to make it easier to securely provision cloud infrastructure-as-code. Joe Duffy, Pulumi CEO, said the Cloud Engineering Platform enables DevOps ...
Reducing Cloud Infrastructure Complexity
Paul Mah | | cloud, cloud deployment, cloud infrastructure, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2020The impact of the cloud and its role in mainstream IT is undeniable. According to IDC, global cloud IT infrastructure spending is projected to reach US$92 billion (SG$126 billion) in 2023. Notably, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Survey Shows Accelerated Shift to Cloud, With Caveats
Mike Vizard | | application testing, cloud adoption, cloud infrastructure, cloud migration, cloud services, COVID-19, pandemicA survey of 250 IT leaders published by Snow Software, a provider of software asset management software, finds 91% are changing their cloud strategy in the wake of the economic downturn brought ...
Report Finds Most Cloud Security Issues Left Unaddressed
Mike Vizard | | application security, cloud applications, cloud infrastructure, cloud production environment, Cloud Security, devopsAccurics, a provider of a platform for assessing the security of cloud computing environments, has published a report that finds that even once discovered, only 4% of issues reported in cloud production ...
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 ...
Commvault Deepens Ties With NetApp to Automate Data Protection
Mike Vizard | | cloud infrastructure, Commvault, data storage, flash arrays, NetApp, on-premises infrastructure, storageCommvault has extended its alliance with NetApp to make it possible to recover files nearly instantaneously from an all-flash memory array. Ranga Rajagopalan, vice president of product management for Commvault, said NetApp ...
Deploying OpenStack: Pick a Distribution With These 7 Qualities
OpenStack, which turns 10 years old in July, remains the leading open source infrastructure component in private clouds. But, there is a plethora of OpenStack distributions out there, and selecting the right ...
Despite Downturn, Enterprise IT Budgets Remain Intact
Mike Vizard | | AIOps, cloud infrastructure, cloud-native, compliance, hiring, IT spending, network performance, security, technology budgetA survey of 137 IT operations leaders at companies in the U.S with at least 500 employees and an annual IT budget in excess of $5 million finds a surprising amount of ...
Castles in the Cloud: How to Take Your Business Kingdom Off-Prem with Confidence
Sean Blenkhorn | | cloud, cloud adoption, cloud infrastructure, IaaS, Infrastructure-as-a-Service, PaaS, platform-as-a-service, SaaS, software as a serviceCloud 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 ...
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 ...
