Cloud Computing


Getting Started with the IAM Access Analyzer

A new tool called the IAM Access Analyzer can help you to find IAM resources with unused permissions, IAM settings that allow for external access, and more.

Using AI for 'Offensive Security' by Simulating Attacks

Adversarial testing with red/black teams is nothing new in cybersecurity, but a new paper examines how advanced AI can help and provides recommendations for organizations to do just that.

KubeCon 2024: Visiting Utah

Former resident Tom Fenton shares some of the fun and exciting things he found there to try to convince you to spend a few days after or before the conference exploring attractions outside Salt Lake City.

CSA Top Cloud Threats Report Shows New No. 1

The top cybersecurity threat in the cloudscape has changed from a couple years ago says a new report from the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), which provided handy mitigation strategies and suggested AI can help (or hurt).

KubeCon 2024: Visiting Salt Lake City

Attractions abound, and here is a list of top ones from former Utah resident Tom Fenton, who says he will be staying an extra night to see blues guitar virtuoso Joe Bonamassa.

AvePoint Ships Cloud Backup Express

Data management/governance specialist AvePoint announced the general availability of Cloud Backup Express, designed to use the new Microsoft 365 Backup Storage service recently made available for third-party integrations.

Conditional Access Policies - Your New Firewall

Longtime IT trainer Paul Schnackenburg explains why it's time we started managing CA policies seriously, checking them against best practices regularly with Maester, backing them up and documenting them.

Dev Survey on Cloud Usage: AWS Rules, Except for One Group

Stack Overflow is out with its massive annual survey that investigates all things developer-related, and this year's edition shows Amazon Web Services (AWS) as the most popular cloud platform among developers -- except for those learning to code.

Get Ready for KubeCon 2024 Salt Lake City

Tom Fenton says he loves walking the floor of IT shows, especially this one, and chatting with the smaller companies that are charting the course of K8S, only to get gobbled up later by tech giants.

Huge Minute-by-Minute Impact of Never-Sleeping AI: 'Nothing Is Free'

Domo, known for its 'Data Never Sleeps' infographics, turns its attention to the relentless onslaught of AI.

Another Firm Woos Disgruntled VMware Customers to Migrate to Cloud

Many vendors have sought to capitalize on the November 2023 acquisition of VMware by Broadcom that resulted in controversy and disgruntled customers, and they continue today.

Google AI Blitz: Open Source 'Oscar' Agent Platform, Gemma 2, Project IDX, More

Google open sourced a platform for AI agents to take care of project maintenance shortly after announcing its latest/greatest open foundation model, Gemma 2, and boosting the Project IDX app-dev workspace amid a blitz of AI initiatives.

How AI Helps Me Write

AI helps Tom Fenton write in many ways, but generating entire articles isn't one of them, he says in explaining his workflow using ChatGPT, Grammarly, MS Word and more.

Google Unveils AI Video Creator

Google unveiled a new AI-powered video creation service as part of its Workspace Labs program where users can try out new AI features.

Cloud Giant AI Hegemony Shows Cracks

Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI led to enterprise AI leadership, soon accompanied by fellow cloud giants Google and AWS. The "Big 3" took turns one-upping one another in speeds/feeds, services, copilots and associated products, but the cloud AI hegemony may be cracking.

Cloud AI Hits Rock Bottom in Research Firm's 'Hype Cycle'

Cloud AI services are officially in the "trough of disillusionment," according to Gartner's latest report on AI hype.

Copilot in Azure

The always-skeptical Paul worries about this amazing AI tool dumbing down junior admins too much, but he's also impressed with the preview and excited about the possibilities, giving it the ultimate compliment: "It's really cool."

Cloud Security: Despite All the Tech, It's Still a People Problem

Even with all the technology bells and whistles and alerts and services and multi-factor authentication and social engineering training and enterprise-wide integrated cybersecurity platforms -- and articles like this -- the human factor is still one of the biggest threats to cloud security.

Thinking About Migrating Workloads to AWS? Do These Two Things First

Brient Posey recommends important tasks before experimenting with the Migration Hub.

Broadcom Aims VMware Cloud Foundation at Infrastructure Modernization

Broadcom's latest update to its VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) private cloud offering is aimed at boosting infrastructure modernization, increasing developer productivity and enhancing security/resiliency.

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