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 The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has repealed […]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, […]
Cloud migration: How to know if you’re going too fast or too slow Companies have decreased their spending on traditional system deployments to fund their cloud migration activities. Indeed, the IaaS market—including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Google—has been exploding with growth over 40 percent in revenue per year since 2011, according to Gartner. And […]
In the rush to big data, we forgot about search I ready David Linthicum’s post ”Data integration is the one thing the cloud makes worse” with great interest. A huge reason that I decided my next job would be for a search company was because of this very problem. (That’s why I now work for […]
IDG Contributor Network: When it comes to the cloud, best-of-breed wins The Beatles or the Rolling Stones? LeBron James or Steph Curry? Muhammad Ali or Floyd Mayweather? And while we’re at it: best-of-breed or single-vendor/integrated-stack? Classic debates. Myself, I prefer the Beatles, Steph, and Ali. As for best-of-breed versus single-vendor, I’ll confess that over my […]
What’s new in Kubernetes containers The latest version of the open source container orchestration framework Kubernetes, Kubernetes 1.9, brings to the container-orchestration framework both full-blown and beta-test versions of significant new features: The general availability of the Workloads API. Beta support for Windows Server. An alpha version of a new container storage API. What’s new […]
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