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Cloud Security

UK government releases new cloud SCADA security guidance for OT

March 18, 2024

Via: TechRadar

The UK National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) has released new guidance on securing supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) cloud environments for operational technology (OT). UK critical national infrastructure (CNI) is highly dependent on SCADA as a means for data […]


Global Cloud

ThousandEyes Report: Top Cloud Outages of 2023

March 13, 2024

Via: eWeek

To say the cloud is important to how we work, live, and play is a major understatement – the cloud is now a critical element of tech infrastructure. However, what underlies these outages is often a mystery. That’s why I […]


Cloud Security

Google’s Security Command Center Enterprise fills gaps across cloud security lifecycle

March 12, 2024

Via: CSO Online

Google’s new Security Command Center Enterprise (SCC Enterprise) could streamline cloud risk management through AI automation, saving security teams time, experts say. Enhanced with Mandiant threat intelligence and generative AI, SCC Enterprise aims to offer comprehensive insights across the cloud […]


Service Models

IBM services aim to boost data center sustainability

March 12, 2024

Via: Network World

IBM is expanding its portfolio of sustainability offerings with new services that promise to help customers reduce data-center energy consumption and securely dispose of old gear and redundant data. IBM’s Technology Lifecycle Services group has added three new services to […]


Deployment Models, Hybrid Cloud

A better way to manage hybrid or multicloud deployments

March 11, 2024

Via: Computer Weekly

With hybrid cloud no longer merely a stop along the way to full-fledged public cloud, tackling management complexity is essential. Cost is among the considerations IT leaders take into account when assessing whether to deploy workloads on the public cloud […]


Cloud Security

5 PaaS security best practices to safeguard the app layer

March 11, 2024

Via: Computer Weekly

PaaS is a cloud model through which service providers deliver an environment where customers can develop, run and manage applications. Because PaaS providers host the hardware and software on their infrastructure, customers aren’t burdened with having to do so in-house. […]


Cloud Clients

AWS removes transfer fees for customers leaving with their data

March 6, 2024

Via: Network World

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has decided to waive data transfer fees for enterprise customers moving their business to another cloud provider. Google made a similar announcement in January. “Starting today, we’re waiving data transfer out to the internet (DTO) charges […]


Global Cloud

Dutch organisations start building a federated European cloud

March 5, 2024

Via: Computer Weekly

The European Commission (EC) approved the Project of Common European Interest – Cloud Infrastructure and Services (IPCEI-CIS) programme in late 2023. In this programme, around 100 companies and knowledge institutes from 12 EU countries will cooperate on developing new and […]


Cloud Security

Achieve scalable cyber resiliency in the cloud during an age of exponential data growth

March 5, 2024

Via: CIO

Data volumes continue to grow exponentially, and there’s no end in sight. IDC predicts that the amount of commercial data in storage will be 12.8 ZB by 2026. A typical novel contains 1 MB of data and is about 12 […]


Global Cloud

G-Cloud 14 insurance requirements ‘under review’ by CCS after SME supplier backlash

March 4, 2024

Via: Computer Weekly

The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) is reviewing its decision to ramp up the insurance cover needed by prospective suppliers on its flagship cloud computing framework, G-Cloud, by £20m after being criticised about how anti-small business the change would be. The […]


Cloud Clients

5 Azure Cost Management Strategies

March 4, 2024

Via: Cloud Tweaks

What Is Azure Cost Management? Azure cost management refers to the practices and processes that organizations implement to monitor, manage, and optimize their cloud spending on the Azure platform. This involves a systematic approach to understanding and controlling the costs […]


Global Cloud

10 tips for speeding up Python programs

February 28, 2024

Via: InfoWorld

By and large, people use Python because it’s convenient and programmer-friendly, not because it’s fast. The plethora of third-party libraries and the breadth of industry support for Python compensate heavily for its not having the raw performance of Java or […]


Cloud Security

Kubernetes cloud costs spike as overprovisioning persists

February 28, 2024

Via: CIO Dive

As organizations migrate more workloads, the pressure to keep a lid on cloud cost intensifies. Enterprises prioritized optimization in 2023, leaning on providers to deliver better usage data and implementing FinOps practices to track and trim spending. Kubernetes, the open […]


Global Cloud

What’s going on with cloud finops?

February 27, 2024

Via: InfoWorld

Hey, remember finops? Cost optimization? According to most surveys, it was a big deal in 2023, but you never would have known it, considering the amount of AI noise out there. The State of FinOps is an annual survey conducted […]


Global Cloud

CIOs rethink all-in cloud strategies

February 27, 2024

Via: CIO

After years of marching to the cloud migration drumbeat, CIOs are increasingly becoming circumspect about the cloud-first mantra, catching on to the need to turn some workloads away from the public cloud to platforms where they will run more productively, […]


Global Cloud

Lambda raises $320 million for GPU cloud

February 26, 2024

Via: Network World

AI cloud service provider Lambda has scored a $320 million cash infusion to build out its GPU-based services, which provide AI training clusters made up of thousands of Nvidia accelerators. Lambda is the latest cloud company to offer GPU processing […]


Global Cloud

How to Develop a Learning Management System (LMS) from Scratch

February 21, 2024

Via: Cloud Tweaks

Discussions about e-learning projects continue unabated, especially as online education begins to supplant traditional courses, trainings and workshops. This shift includes a growing trend to build LMS from scratch . Distance learning offers two notable benefits: it’s generally more cost-effective […]


Global Cloud

Why enterprises neglect billions in cloud savings

February 21, 2024

Via: CIO Dive

Cloud’s power to digitally transform business comes with a major caveat: access to practically unlimited compute can be a budget buster. Despite a broad enterprise push to optimize spending and commitments from AWS and other major providers to help, cloud […]


Service Models

IBM taps DNS technology to improve load-balancing service

February 20, 2024

Via: Network World

IBM is offering a new service that uses DNS to help enterprise customers more effectively load balance highly distributed application and multicloud workloads. The IBM NS1 Connect Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) service ties together the company’s NS1 DNS technology […]


Global Cloud

Making cloud infrastructure programmable for developers

February 20, 2024

Via: InfoWorld

Most developers don’t use infrastructure as code (IaC), argues AWS tech lead Chris Munns. But to those top 10% to 15% of developers who do use modern development technologies such as IaC go the spoils. Even if the audience for […]