"If you can get away with it, use microservices as your preferred architecture," advised DevOps application security expert Carlos Rivas in an online presentation last week.
Finding no one-stop-shop for a list of initial access vulnerabilities used by ransomware attackers, cybersecurity expert and <i>Virtualization & Cloud Review</i> tech event presenter Allan Liska started one on his own and crowdsourced the effort on Twitter.
Tom Fenton details the web server work he did in his experiment to use an "Always Free" Ubuntu 18.04 VM on Oracle Cloud to host a small web site.
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is now incubating Crossplane, an open source project providing a Kubernetes add-on that acts as a universal control plane with which enterprises can consume infrastructure.
Research firm Dell'Oro Group said Cisco retained its market share lead in the SD-WAN space, but there was some movement among the rest of the top five vendors in its latest quarterly report.
To get a feel for the Oracle Cloud, Tom Fenton shows how easy it is to sign up for and create a web site on an x86 VM and a desktop on an Arm VM, here using the "Always Free" option.
Tom Fenton sneakily works around his 5-item limit to showcase even more goodies you need to check out in what might be the first big post-pandemic tech show allowing the option of in-person attendance.
Brien Posey explains the process, which can help you to better manage data growth and the corresponding cost, along with providing other benefits.
VMware makes it possible to launch the Horizon client from the command line and specify the desired screen resolution.
Two key ways to protect cloud data from ransomware and other attacks are to use Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and "don't trust anyone or anything," says cloud data protection expert Joey D'Antoni.
Multimedia redirection can greatly increase the number of virtual desktops your VDI hosts can accommodate and lower the cost of your VDI environment.
Microsoft is previewing a new enterprise Java service for its Azure cloud platform, powered by VMware Tanzu components.
Primarily geared toward hosting web applications, Lightsail now can used as a container hosting platform.
'Azure Lighthouse changed the game for managed service offers for Azure, and I think this new service will do the same for M365.'
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 08/30/2021
Expert advice for organizations that outgrow AWS Lightsail and need to move their web applications to the more scalable EC2 platform.
"Given that the cloud holds a seemingly endless amount of computing power, hackers have a clear motive in stealing computing resources to run their cryptocurrency mining activities."
Brien Posey shows how to use the EBS Lifecycle Manager in the AWS cloud to build automated lifecycle policies for your EBS snapshots and avoid money-wasting proliferation.
Microsoft is increasingly banking on the Zero Trust security model to combat an exploding ransomware threat.
From Project Monterey to the future of VM provisioning (Kubernetes), Tom Fenton shares the top five technologies he's interested in learning more about during the online-only VMworld event in October.
"Regrettably, we should expect a public cloud to be commandeered to launch a systemic ransomware attack this fall."