Tag: cloud-native

June 1, 2023

A fundamental decision for cloud security architects is how much to rely on the cloud-native security tools of their cloud provider, be it AWS, GCP, Azure, or any other provider. “As much as possible” is the wish of cloud engineers, […]

January 27, 2023

A recent study by Gartner predicts that by 2025 more than 95% of application workloads will exist on cloud-native platforms (up from 30% in 2021). I tend not to believe these kinds of predictions because adoption is never linear. We […]

October 20, 2022

SolarWinds, the maker of a well-known and widely used suite of IT management software products, announced this week that it’s expanding to the cloud, with the release of Observability, a cloud-native, SaaS-based IT management service that is also available for […]

October 18, 2022

According to a new study from Wanclouds, 81% of IT leaders say their executives and boards of directors have directed them to reduce or take on no additional cloud spending. It’s little surprise as cloud costs skyrocket while the economy […]

October 14, 2022

I’ll admit I felt a bit vindicated by this article about “embracing the discomfort” with cloud vendor lock-in. This is a reality I’ve stressed for years as organizations move to single and multicloud deployments. My viewpoint is not the result […]

August 1, 2022

From manufacturing to transportation to retail, companies across virtually every industry are supporting their digital transformations by moving to a cloud-based infrastructure. The shift from on-premises software to cloud services has been revolutionary to the process of application development and […]

June 20, 2022

Any sizeable organization focused on developing and deploying cloud-native applications should consider establishing a cloud center of excellence (CCoE). Creating a CCoE will help you successfully leverage the cloud to increase the scale and agility of your business. In a […]

May 23, 2022

I read an OutSystems report the other day that surprised me. According to OutSystems’ “Cloud-Native Development: Ready or Not?” report, although both Gartner and IDC predict that 90% to 95% of applications will be cloud-native by 2025, only 47% of […]

May 13, 2022

One of the things I learned early on is to design systems that allow for easy ongoing change. How? Cloud or non-cloud system, you build for change by compartmentalizing system components so that they can be configured or changed on […]

March 31, 2022

Cloud native is of one of those terms that caught the wave of tech press hype. The term is so hot right now that some companies are “cloud native washing” their products and services to ride the cloud native wave. […]

March 30, 2022

Palo Alto Networks has launched a new, fully managed “next-generation” firewall (NGFW) service in partnership with Amazon Web Services designed to remove the complexities of securing AWS cloud deployments. The network firewall vendor says its Cloud NGFW for AWS enables […]

March 8, 2022

Today’s cloud strategies revolve around two distinct poles: the “lift and shift” approach, in which applications and associated data are moved to the cloud without being redesigned; and the “cloud-first” approach, in which applications are developed or redesigned specifically for […]

March 4, 2022

I’m not a big fan of tech buzzwords. Even the term cloud computing has driven me nuts at times, and of course new tech terms are created all the time. Full disclosure, I use buzzwords to communicate ideas if those […]

February 8, 2022

If you asked me five years ago if I thought hybrid cloud was a cop out – a misinformed strategy for businesses that weren’t ready to transform hard enough – I probably would have said yes. I saw the allure […]

February 1, 2022

I consistently hear false information about multicloud in the press, meetings, training, podcasts, and other sources where cloud professionals share information. These are rarely deliberate attempts at misinformation; people just lack some understanding of what’s real and what isn’t, based […]

February 1, 2022

Just a quick refresher: cloud native means we leverage services and systems found only on a specific cloud provider. When developers and architects refer to “cloud native,” they are typically referring to specific cloud services that won’t be found on […]

January 31, 2022

In the past few years, cloud computing has become a dominant trend in enterprise IT. The benefits of moving to the cloud are clear: lower costs, increased flexibility, and improved scalability. But as more companies move their infrastructures into public […]

January 31, 2022

In late October Roblox’s global online game network went down, an outage that lasted three days. The site is used by 50 million gamers daily. Figuring out and fixing the root causes of this disruption would take a massive effort […]

December 28, 2021

To manage the complexities of today’s cloud native infrastructure, there’s an increasing need for IT monitoring technology, often referred to as observability. As core building blocks of this trend, two sophisticated technologies are rapidly developing: Monitoring-as-Code and Infrastructure-as-Code. Let’s dig […]

December 10, 2021

Have you heard about serverless computing? Guess what, it’s not serverless at all. It just automates the allocation of back-end servers you’ll need to complete a particular task. Today we have dozens of types of serverless systems from databases to […]