Tag: cloud infrastructure

February 13, 2024

The runaway success of Kubernetes adoption by enterprise software developers has created motivation for attackers to target these installations with specifically designed exploits that leverage its popularity. Attackers have become better at hiding their malware, avoiding the almost trivial security […]

February 13, 2024

I’ve been working with artificial intelligence systems since the 1980s. Back then, AI was considered a revolution in leveraging computer systems to achieve unheard-of capabilities. Things are much the same today with generative AI (genAI). But to avoid the mistakes […]

February 12, 2024

An IT leader on the way to the promised land comes to a fork in the road. There’s a sign up ahead with two arrows. The arrow pointing to the left path says: This way lies oral surgery. An arrow […]

February 9, 2024

Cisco has fixed three serious cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in its Expressway Series collaboration gateway and a denial-of-service (DoS) flaw in the ClamAV anti-malware engine. CSRF flaws allow unauthenticated attackers to perform arbitrary actions on vulnerable devices by tricking […]

February 9, 2024

Google is teaming up with HSBC to make it easier for climate tech companies that run their on the internet search giant’s cloud platform to access financial support. The partnership will see members of the Google Cloud Ready – Sustainability […]

February 9, 2024

Don’t look now, but 25% of organizations surveyed in the United Kingdom have already moved half or more of their cloud-based workloads back to on-premises infrastructures. This is according to a recent study by Citrix, a Cloud Software Group business […]

February 9, 2024

Joen Meier Olsen, senior manager of strategy advisers in EMEA for Apptio, says: “The hybrid cloud conversation in the Nordics focuses more on a cloud-if-it-makes-sense principle, rather than a cloud-first principle. Companies are moving to the public cloud if it […]

February 8, 2024

Managed services provider Flexential has released Flexential Fabric, a platform that enables customers to dynamically provision interconnection services through a web interface. Flexential Fabric supports both IP transit and private transport through a single port, which the company says is […]

February 8, 2024

We’ve seen how Steampipe can unify access to APIs, drive metasearch, enforce KPIs as code, and detect configuration drift. The enabling plugins were, until recently, tightly bound to the Steampipe binary and to the instance of Postgres that Steampipe launches […]

February 8, 2024

The aggressive use of large language models (LLMs) across enterprise environments in 2024 presents a new headache for CISOs. LLMs have their own cybersecurity challenges, especially with data leakage. The cloud has its own issues, with cloud platform providers making […]

February 6, 2024

Cisco has announced plans to infuse new security and AI capabilities within Cisco Security Cloud, the company’s integrated, cloud-based security platform designed to secure on-premise, cloud, and hybrid environments, using in-house as well as third-party telemetry. New capabilities include Cisco […]

February 5, 2024

Whether it’s to save money, reduce carbon emissions, comply with regulations or accommodate high-powered AI workloads, enterprises are looking to operate more energy-efficient data centers. A key to achieving those goals is selecting the right technology to help cool equipment […]

February 5, 2024

NoSQL databases arose in response to the limitations of using SQL (Structured Query Language) for database queries. NoSQL databases store and manage data in ways that enable high operational speed and a level of flexibility not found in traditional relational […]

February 5, 2024

Developers of a certain age are used to beginning their application development journey by choosing an operating system. Younger developers, by contrast, might start by picking a cloud. One of the most respected voices in tech suggests a different starting […]

February 5, 2024

Cloudflare has revealed that a nation-state actor hacked into the company’s self-hosted Atlassian server in November 2023, but the attack was stopped by the internal team within a few days of access. The hack, which used stolen tokens and credentials, […]

February 2, 2024

A recent survey is telling us what most of us already know. Cloud migrations are complex, expensive, and often need to be more successful. Perhaps it’s time we stopped digging a migration hole and learned to do better. Cloud migration […]

February 2, 2024

AWS focused on helping customers optimize cloud spend last year to mitigate the impact of a slowing economy. Cloud revenue growth, which grew 29% year over year in 2022, experienced a corresponding drop. A more favorable macro outlook coupled with […]

February 1, 2024

One of the great advantages of using the public cloud is the ability to deploy applications and services at scale. But scale has a flip side, as working with dozens or hundreds of servers imposes new constraints on systems administration. […]

January 31, 2024

Cisco and Hitachi Vantara have unveiled the first fruits of their partnership, signed last year, that aims to bring managed as-a-service offerings to enterprise customers with hybrid cloud environments. The joint offering, Hitachi EverFlex with Cisco Powered Hybrid Cloud, includes […]

January 31, 2024

As an industry underpinned by innovation, the technology sector can be its own worst enemy when it comes to skills. Cloud technologies are evolving more rapidly than previous generations, but workers aren’t being trained or upskilled quickly enough to meet […]