Category: Public Cloud

March 13, 2023

What does Identity and Access Management (IAM) for/in IT departments have in common with the song “All I Want For Christmas Is You” in shopping centers in December? Well, both are an integral part of the experience and you only […]

March 6, 2023

As banks target core systems for cloud migration, difficulty sourcing cloud talent is a major risk factor, Accenture’s annual banking cloud report found. Banks perceive core migration as high-risk for several reasons, the report said, including “a lack of staff […]

March 1, 2023

The cloud brings a technological shift to IT landscapes and their backup strategies and implementations. Relying on well-established on-prem backup rules and patterns is convenient but risky. These backup strategies became popular because they solve critical challenges in the on-prem […]

February 22, 2023

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced availability of its new Amazon EC2 M7g and R7g instances, the latest generation of instances for memory-intensive applications and running Amazons custom Arm processor, known as Graviton3. This is the second offering of Graviton3-based […]

February 15, 2023

I recently wrote an opinion piece on the most important reason you should be using Linux at home. In the end, it’s all about keeping your data safe from third-party services and the ability to expand the applications, services, and […]

February 10, 2023

The CIO of a regulatory agency that reports to the US Securities and Exchange Commission — one of the biggest cloud consumers in the world — has made it his mission to help other CIOs — and Amazon Web Services […]

January 31, 2023

Zurich Insurance Group has agreed to migrate its entire enterprise IT infrastructure estate to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud, and has set itself a goal of moving 1,000 of its applications off-premise by 2025. The company, which specialises […]

January 18, 2023

Microsoft has fixed vulnerabilities in four separate services of its Azure cloud platform, two of which could have allowed attackers to perform a server-side request forgery (SSRF) attack — and thus potentially execute remote code execution — even without authentication […]

January 18, 2023

The long-held view that moving to the public cloud is a low-risk, flexible and inexpensive alternative to on-premise IT will be increasingly challenged throughout 2023, prompting some enterprises with complex infrastructure needs to slow down or press pause on their […]

January 4, 2023

The Achilles heel is when backups and workloads are under the control of the same identity and access management (IAM) solution. In other words: When attackers compromise the IAM solution, they can delete servers and traditional backups (Figure 1, left). […]

January 3, 2023

Here’s a topic we don’t discuss as much as we should: public cloud repatriation. Many regard repatriating data and applications back to enterprise data centers from a public cloud provider as an admission that someone made a big mistake moving […]

December 28, 2022

Immutable backups sound like a niche nerd topic, but somehow CEOs, boards of directors, and risk and audit specialists suddenly get interested. They are nervous – but why? What is the threat, and how do immutable backups help? And how […]

December 16, 2022

Sustainability and cloud computing go hand in hand. Cloud computing’s ability to share resources naturally leads to more efficient use of those resources. This sharing model gives cloud computing its ability to provide sustainability in the wide, but we must […]

December 6, 2022

IBM isn’t one of the big players in the pure cloud market, but the tech company wants to make a name for itself in hybrid cloud by targeting industry-specific solutions. Apart from mainframe domination, IBM has a history leveraging its […]

November 7, 2022

After a flurry of conferences, announcements, and events in the tech industry last month, it’s clear cloud providers experienced exponential growth in the last few years in AI and cloud capabilities. Based on Data Center Knowledge’s review of recent announcements […]

October 31, 2022

Gartner is warning that inflationary pressure could negatively affect its worldwide spending on public cloud services forecast, which presently suggests spending in this area is set to grow by more than 20% in 2023. The IT market watcher said global […]

October 31, 2022

Even as enterprises attempt to tackle economic headwinds with budget cutbacks, a research report from market research firm Gartner showed that end-user public cloud spending is expected to grow in 2023. The report, which covers categories such as infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), […]

October 7, 2022

Most businesses have many reasons for shifting to the cloud. The most common is to save money. Sadly, it happens pretty rarely, at least in the short term. Instead, as The Wall Street Journal recently reported, company executives say their […]

September 26, 2022

The pandemic accelerated the digitalization of day-to-day business operations, ushering in a new era of tech-dependence, particularly around cloud migration. Now, companies of all sizes are racing to update their infrastructure, data, and critical applications to the cloud. With spending […]

September 9, 2022

Throughout my career as a practitioner and teacher of cloud architecture and general enterprise architecture, I’ve focused on the distinction between logical and physical architectures. It’s no secret what they comprise: A logical architecture is a structure of technology concepts […]