A survey of 250 IT leaders published by Snow Software, a provider of software asset management software, finds 91% are changing their cloud strategy in the wake of the economic downturn brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. The survey also finds twice as many respondents report they are accelerating cloud migration (45%) and digital transformation […]
Report Finds Most Cloud Security Issues Left Unaddressed
Accurics, a provider of a platform for assessing the security of cloud computing environments, has published a report that finds that even once discovered, only 4% of issues reported in cloud production environments are addressed. Based on research conducted using its platform and other public sources of data, the report also finds 90% of organizations […]
Lucidchart Launches Tool to Visualize AWS Cloud Environments
Lucidchart today added a visualization tool that generates interactive diagrams of an IT organization’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment. Dan Lawyer, senior vice president of product at Lucidchart, said Lucidchart Cloud Insights makes it possible to automatically visualize all the services an organization is consuming from the cloud service provider, with support for other cloud […]
Commvault Deepens Ties With NetApp to Automate Data Protection
Commvault has extended its alliance with NetApp to make it possible to recover files nearly instantaneously from an all-flash memory array. Ranga Rajagopalan, vice president of product management for Commvault, said NetApp Scale-out Data Protection (SDP) from Commvault builds on its backup and recovery software to make it possible to use to NetApp hyperconverged infrastructure […]
Deploying OpenStack: Pick a Distribution With These 7 Qualities
OpenStack, which turns 10 years old in July, remains the leading open source infrastructure component in private clouds. But, there is a plethora of OpenStack distributions out there, and selecting the right one is vital to the success of every organization’s OpenStack project. How do you know which is best? It’s an important question because, […]
Despite Downturn, Enterprise IT Budgets Remain Intact
A survey of 137 IT operations leaders at companies in the U.S with at least 500 employees and an annual IT budget in excess of $5 million finds a surprising amount of resiliency at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Conducted April 1 by OpsRamp, a provider of IT operations tools, the survey finds more […]
Castles in the Cloud: How to Take Your Business Kingdom Off-Prem with Confidence
Cloud transformation requires migrating all or part of an organization’s virtual assets off-premises, typically to a public cloud. This enables greater efficiency and cost savings, among other benefits, but it brings heightened risk as well. At the same time, many organizations moving to the cloud don’t fully understand the implications in terms of security. Consequently, […]
The Disservice of Cloud Consolidation
There’s no secret that over the past five years especially, the major (“tier 1”) cloud infrastructure players—Amazon, Microsoft and Google—have been snatching up smaller specialty providers, particularly cloud migration and security services. While this acquisition strategy immediately aims to strengthen and expand the provider’s direct and tangential cloud infrastructure offerings, the long-term goal is customer […]
HPE Extends Hybrid Cloud Computing Strategy
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) today advanced its hybrid cloud computing strategy by announcing at its HPE Discover 2019 conference an alliance with Google to embrace Kubernetes in hybrid cloud computing environments and then extending the reach of its software-defined infrastructure for building private clouds to legacy ProLiant servers. Lauren Whitehouse, director of marketing for the software-defined […]
DevOps and Networking: Working to Achieve Nirvana
Enterprises don’t own the cloud, just the experience. If there’s an outage or even a hiccup in the performance or network service, it’s on the network and application teams (not the cloud provider) to fix it. But often with problems in the cloud comes finger-pointing, as network and application teams look to determine liability and […]