3 New Year’s resolutions for the cloud in 2018 I’m one of those people who takes time at the new year to define personal objectives for the forthcoming year, some of which I actually achieve. Enterprise IT should be doing the same thing for cloud computing. Here are my three suggestions for IT’s cloud resolutions […]
IDG Contributor Network: 3 things to know about IoT (and fog) in 2018 The IoT revolution is here. Connected devices are reaching every part of our lives, from wearables, to the smart home, to the industrial internet. (This infograph created by First Mark Capital does a great job of showing the breadth and reach of […]
Cloudops automation is the only answer to cloud complexity Let’s face facts: We often look at cloud computing as a single place to put our workloads and our data, where magic pixy dust takes care of what’s needed. But today we increasingly understand that the reality of the cloud—like the datacenter before it—is complexity, labor […]
Don’t leave your Amazon S3 buckets exposed As long as you know the right URL, anyone with access to the internet could retrieve all the data that was left online by marketing analytics company Alteryx. This is the second major exposure of data stored and improperly managed in the Amazon Web Services S3 storage service. […]
IDG Contributor Network: Beware of hybrid IT washing in 2018 In 2018, “hybrid IT” will be the most overused term in the IT industry. That’s not to say that hybrid IT isn’t a real thing. It very much is. Enterprise IT organizations have found themselves in a position where they are surrounded on all sides […]
Google Cloud Platform’s secret sauce: Its time is now 2017 was a good year for Google Cloud Platform. But 2018 promises to be even better. Although Google still sits well behind Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure in cloud revenue, with just 2.3 percent market share against AWS’s 44.1 percent and Azure’s 7.1 percent, according […]
Julia vs. Python: Julia language rises for data science Of the many use cases Python covers, data analytics has become perhaps the biggest and most significant. The Python ecosystem is loaded with libraries, tools, and applications that make the work of scientific computing and data analysis fast and convenient. But for the developers behind the […]
How the end of net neutrality will affect enterprise cloud computing I hate writing about politics because the topic is so polarizing. However, I’ve had enough questions about the net neutrality issue that I felt InfoWorld readers needed some preliminary guidance about its effect on enterprise-grade cloud computing. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has repealed […]
Zero Trust networks and enterprise security strategy | Salted Hash Ep 12 CSO Online | Dec 18, 2017 Executives at cloud services vendor Akamai — David Lewis, global security advocate; Andy Ellis, CSO; and Charlie Gero, CTO — talk with host Steve Ragan about the evolving role of security in the enterprise. Similar Security […]
IDG Contributor Network: As some technologies become mature, our focus shifts toward new areas of innovation I recently attended the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2017 conference in Austin, Texas, which gathers leading technologists from multiple open source cloud-native communities to further the education and advancement of cloud-native computing. This was my first time attending this conference, […]
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