Tag: 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 8, 2023

Data and information are the new oil; who hasn’t heard this metaphor? Thus, protecting company data is – obviously – a management priority. The main challenge for CIOs, CISOs, data protection officers, and their security architects is to select and […]

March 7, 2023

I guess I could place some stat here that shows multicloud is the large majority of public cloud deployments out there, but there are lots of other places to see that. We know it’s a common approach for enterprises to […]

March 7, 2023

Businesses are struggling to manage their hybrid cloud environments, as public cloud services remain largely proprietary and do not always provide the flexility they have on-premises. Enterprises are benefitting from public clouds while keeping some workloads on-premises, but connecting these […]

March 6, 2023

An organization takes a multicloud approach when it uses cloud services from more than one provider. That might seem obvious from the name—it’s multiple clouds, after all—but the reasons for choosing a multicloud approach can be as varied as the […]

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 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

A hybrid cloud is a computing platform built from both private and public cloud components. A public cloud is what usually comes to mind when we talk about cloud computing: storage and compute resources offered by a vendor to customers […]

January 31, 2023

Red Hat and Oracle announced jointly Tuesday that they have partnered to bring Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, broadening Oracle’s available public cloud options and creating a measure of détente between two long-standing competitors. The announcement […]

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 20, 2023

Cybersecurity threats abound whether you deploy workloads inside your own data center or use a public cloud. But the nature of the threats, and the main risks you’ll want to focus on, vary widely between data centers and the cloud. […]

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 5, 2023

A South Africa-based threat actor known as Automated Libra has been observed adopting increasingly sophisticated techniques to conduct a widespread freejacking campaign against various public cloud services. Freejacking is the act of using free or time-limited access to public cloud […]

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 30, 2022

First, I’m not a big fan of New Year’s resolutions. It seems to me we should improve ourselves all year, not just on January 1. Human nature being what it is, my gym will be more than crowded in January […]

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 27, 2022

IoT Analytics does a pretty good job of looking at the growth potential for cloud computing hyperscalers (public cloud providers) moving forward. They see this market moving from $157 billion in 2022 to approximately $597 billion in five years, to […]

December 19, 2022

Edge computing refers to geographically locating infrastructure in proximity to where data is generated or consumed. Instead of pushing this data to a public or private cloud for storage and computing, the data is processed “on the edge,” using infrastructure […]