Click to learn more about author Jason Collier. Over the last several years, organizations have adopted the Cloud for a variety of benefits including lower costs, agility and mobility. Most have cleared paths to transition 100 percent of their operations to Cloud platforms, whether private, public and in some cases hybrid. In the process, many […]
Evolving Cloud Networks and How to Keep Them Secure
Click to learn more about author Pete Johnson. The triumvirate of the Data Center world has traditionally consisted of compute, storage and networking, so naturally Cloud Computing has been based on the same. Just as we saw in the private Data Center world, networking tends to lag the other two in terms of evolution, and […]
SolarWinds Acquires Loggly, Strengthens Portfolio of Cloud Offerings
by Angela Guess According to a recent press release, “SolarWinds, a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software, today announced it has completed the acquisition of Loggly, Inc., a provider of cloud-based log monitoring and log analytics software. With the transaction, the company also will add to its team of world-class software engineering […]
Kubernetes 101: What Is It and What Value Does It Offer Me?
Click to learn more about author Pete Johnson. If you remember a time when the de facto target for application deployments transitioned from bare metal to virtual machines (VMs), this story is going to sound familiar to you. That’s not to say that you should think of containers as VMs, only smaller, but that’s a […]
The Biggest Misconception About Moving Data to the Cloud
Click to learn more about author Thomas LaRock Clouds consist of tiny droplets of water or ice crystals—hydrogen and oxygen. The Earth is made up mainly of iron, oxygen, silicon and magnesium. You wouldn’t expect these different combinations of elements to act the same, nor should you assume that your Cloud servers will function exactly like […]
The Data Logjam Facing DevOps and Digital Transformation
Click to learn more about author Paul Stanton. Cloud Computing and DevOps are dominant themes in computing today. AWS, Azure, Google, and others compete to provide greater agility, while reducing enterprise cost of building, running, and protecting information services. Progress is being made in DevOps strategies, with new leadership and organizational culture, combined with tools […]
Five Ways Data Analytics is Transforming the Insurance Industry
Click to learn more about author Roi Agababa. Insurance professionals collect a huge amount of data from their customers. And then, they hand it over to underwriters, who evaluate risks of insuring that person using various actuarial data, claims data, and a bunch of other techniques (some of which are proprietary to the insurer). From […]
Cloud Computing, AI Drive Revenue Opportunities, Present Resource Challenges for Banks
by Angela Guess A recent press release reports, “A new report released by Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. based on research by Greenwich Associates, examines the impact that cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI), and distributed ledger technology will have in driving new revenue and cost savings opportunities for capital markets firms. While the opportunity to leverage […]
How IT Can Keep a Seat at the Digital Transformation Table
Click to learn more about author Leon Adato. Traditional IT roles are changing. In the last two to three years alone, IT professionals across a variety of disciplines—systems, virtualization, databases, storage, networking—have experienced significant updates to their job descriptions to align with new capabilities introduced by the Cloud. IT’s function within businesses is changing, as well. […]
Cloud Harmonics Advances Cloud Architecture Security and Orchestration Platform
The recent press release stated that, “Cloud Harmonics, the pioneer of holistic distribution, announced today the Phantom Security Automation and Orchestration Platform will automate the response to threats within its full stack private cloud architecture. Cloud Harmonics and Phantom inked a distribution and channel enablement partnership that will give value added resellers the award-winning training […]