Research firm Gartner's "Magic Quadrant" series of reports on cloud database management systems has long seen a crowded "Leaders" field populated with the usual cast of cloud giants and wannabes, but this year AWS has slightly edged ahead of the pack.
"Fully 75 percent of respondents say that cloud computing represents the single greatest expansion of the enterprise attack surface in the last 20 years!"
After introducing the basics, Tom Fenton looks at the ephemeral nature of container instances and how to use networking and persistent storage with them.
A new survey-based Kubernetes backup and data protection report shows Kasten by Veeam was identified as a leader in the field, though many respondents couldn't name any organization as a leader.
Paul takes a look at newly released Azure AD B2B Direct Connect and Microsoft Teams Connect shared channels.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 07/29/2022
With the recent upsurge in ransomware attacks have come a few huge payouts from insurance companies, so they are cracking down on rules and regulations to lessen their exposure.
Brien shows how to perform Windows Server core deployments in AWS without having to build your own custom Amazon Machine Image (AMI).
Announced at this week's big Inspire partner event, the new Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty has arrived to help public sector customers meet compliance, security and policy requirements when processing data and workloads in the company's cloud.
Most organizations already have sensitive data in the cloud. The majority of organizations surveyed (67%) in a new report host sensitive data or workloads in the public cloud.
After earlier describing some of the storage types that are used by EC2 instances, Brien now shows how this information plays into the troubleshooting process.
If it's not because of an increased workload, check for problems with the instance's storage.
Flush with $3.3 million in seed funding, startup Paladin Cloud has launched an open source Security-as-Code platform that aims to holistically improve cloud security.
Paul details where this hidden gem fits, where it doesn't, why you should care and coming improvements.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 07/06/2022
In gauging the benefits and challenges of cloud-native development, OutSystems found most respondents to a survey don't know that much about the approach, even though analysts predict it will pretty much account for all app development in a few years.
Lots of organizations are talking about sustainability, but not so many are walking the talk, indicates a new report from Google Cloud.
Cloud computing surveys usually reveal that security concerns and lack of in-house skills are top impediments to successful implementations, but a recent poll adds a new top challenge: cost control.
After earlier explaining the basics, Brien shows how to create a really simple subscription and how to publish a message.
Tom points out a key factor that can make VDI a success and talks about one of the reasons it failed in the early days.
The Cost Anomaly Detection tool goes beyond budget alerts to lower costs.
Tom takes a look at Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) and hybrid infrastructure.