Organizations of all sizes have adopted cloud strategies to varying degrees. While beneficial in many ways, the cloud also has its risks, which organizations should fully assess before placing assets there. In this comprehensive guide, complete with links to more information, we lay out the challenges in securing the cloud environment as well as how […]
Archives for February 2021
Red Hat closes purchase of multi-cloud container security firm StackRox
Red Hat has finalised its acquisition of container security company StackRox. StackRox’s Kubernetes-native security technology will enable Red Hat customers to build, deploy, and secure applications across multiple hybrid clouds. In a blog post, Ashesh Badani, senior vice president of cloud platforms at Red Hat, said over the past several years, the company has “paid […]
Mindtree achieves Google Cloud partner status
Mindtree has announced it has achieved the Application Development Partner Specialisation in Google Cloud’s Partner Advantage Programme. The ‘specialisation’ is an acknowledgement of the cloud firm’s expertise and success in building apps and services using the Google Cloud Platform. Mindtree is an Indian-based tech with offices in Banglore and the US. The firm provides […]
IBM’s Hernandez Discusses Future of AIOps and Measuring ROI
More automation of IT operations may be on the way to industry and regulated sectors that have yet to embrace its possibilities. The rollout of more and more resources that introduce AI and automation to IT operations may help organizations discover issues faster, and IBM believes such technology is proving its worth in the time […]
Private cloud certificates to build up your tech skills
Admins can keep their cloud skills sharp with private cloud training and certifications that increase professional knowledge about private cloud construction, deployment, management and cloud-specific technologies. Most companies use cloud computing. Public cloud spending is forecast to grow to 18.4% to $304.9 billion in 2021, but organizations always look for ways to save on their […]
Google Brings Databricks to Its Cloud Platform
Recently Google announced a partnership with Databricks to bring their fully-managed Apache Spark offering and data lake capabilities to Google Cloud. The offering will become available as Databricks on Google Cloud. Databricks on Google Cloud will be tightly integrated with Google Cloud’s infrastructure and analytics capabilities. By integrating Databricks with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), customers […]
How to achieve security observability in complex environments
The average time to detect and contain a data breach is 280 days, according to IBM’s “2020 Cost of a Data Breach Report.” This makes clear that monitoring IT infrastructure and relying on automated security alerts are not enough to detect sophisticated and well-resourced cyber attacks. This approach is especially lacking since most IT infrastructures […]
Accelerating Department of Defense mission workloads with Azure
As the Azure engineering team continues to deliver a rapid pace of innovation for defense customers, we’re also continuing to support Department of Defense (DoD) customers and partners in delivering new capabilities to serve mission needs. In many cases, accelerating mission workloads means forging a faster and more secure way for teams to build, ship, […]
Bring siloed data together to get the best of your edge computing capabilities
Convincing management to buy into your plan is not easy, but a potential profit increase can change their minds. Image: metamorworks, Getty Images/iStockphoto More about Big Data The edge computing market is expected to grow from $2.8 billion to $9 billion by 2024. But leveraging edge technology for best business benefit—and convincing executive management of […]
Mini book: InfoQ eMag: Modern Data Engineering
Data architecture is being disrupted, echoing the evolution of software architecture over the past decade. The changes coming to data engineering will look and sound familiar to those who have watched monoliths be broken up into microservices: DevOps to DataOps; API Gateway to Data Gateway; Service Mesh to Data Mesh. While this will have benefits […]