What your provider won’t tell you about cloud security Everyone loves insider tips. In the case of cloud computing, the tips that matter are mostly about cloud security approaches and technology. Here are three cloud security tips that your cloud provider won’t want to tell you. But I will. Tip 1: Cloud security should be […]
What is an API? Application programming interfaces explained API, for application programming interface, is one of those acronyms that is used everywhere from command-line tools to enterprise Java code to Ruby on Rails web apps. Unless you write every single line of code from scratch, you’re going to be interacting with external software components, each […]
Docker tutorial: Get started with Docker volumes Docker containers are meant to be immutable. The code and data they hold never change. Immutability is useful when you want to be sure that the code running in production is the same that passed QA testing; it’s not so useful when you need someplace to write data […]
Watch Tech Talk on May 17 for an in-depth GDPR discussion Computerworld | May 8, 2018 The GDPR deadline is coming up fast, and most businesses in the U.S. aren’t ready yet. Join Ken Mingis and his panel of experts as they discuss the impact of the new rules and what U.S. organizations must do […]
Cloud security: The skills gap is delaying cloud migration A new report from McAfee highlights the skills gap when it comes to security in the cloud. The report reveals that one in four organizations using infrastructure as a service (IaaS) or software as a service (SaaS) have experienced cybersecurity threats that compromised some data. Moreover, one […]
Why use Ansible for automation and orchestration If there were an award for “most improved IT orchestration and configuration management tool,” Red Hat’s Ansible would be a top contender. Since its initial development by Michael DeHaan in 2012, it has grown from a simpler way to automate Linux systems than Puppet, to a widely applicable automation […]
How to work with Azure Service Bus queues in .Net A queue is a data structure that works on a FIFO (first in first out) basis. Items are inserted at the end of the queue and removed from the beginning. The term “Enqueue” describes the operation that inserts data in the queue, while the term […]
How to secure SaaS: Understanding the cloud’s security layers When you address security in the cloud for your enterprise use, you need to think of it in several layers: Layer 0 is the primary IaaS cloud on which everything else runs; typically, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, IBM Cloud, or Alibaba. Layer […]
How AWS will own you through serverless computing If you could spend $1 to make $10, you’d do it, right? By the same token, if you could spend $9 billion to make $90 billion, you’d do that, too, right? With hundreds of billions at stake in cloud computing, and winner-takes-most economics in play, Amazon Web […]
Using a private cloud? Admit your error and go public instead Amazon Web Services has announced that Oath, the former Yahoo, has selected AWS as its preferred public cloud provider. Sounds like another routine “win” announcement from a cloud vendor, doesn’t it? But this one is far from routine. Just last year, InfoWorld’s editor in […]
IDG Contributor Network: How hybrid cloud can save same digital transformations from being duds When big-name brands fail, it’s hard to look away. Whether it’s a social media snafu by a fast-food chain or an all-out shuttering of an iconic retailer, we are fundamentally hard-wired as human beings to be fascinated by these stories, just […]
The right way to manage devops configurations in the cloud A common question from people setting up devops in the cloud is where to track configurations. You certainly have a vast array of technologies to help you track configurations, including configuration management (CM) tools such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, and Cfengine. However, a more fundamental […]
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