Why Object Storage is Best for Cloud-Native Apps
A crucial question that plagues cloud application developers is, “What kind of storage should we use for our app?” Unlike other choices like compute runtimes—Lambda/serverless, containers or virtual machines—data storage choice is highly sticky and makes future application improvements and migrations much harder. All three hyperscalers have storage services that present block, file and object-based […]
The Forces Massing Against the Data Center
We’ve come a long way over the last few decades. A ton of stuff about IT has changed, even in the last five years. And it is true in IT that the only constant is change. We like to have control of our environment to provide the most stable platform for user satisfaction that we […]
Lightbend Launches Serverless Managed DevOps Service
Lightbend today unfurled a cloud service based on a serverless framework that provides developers with a managed DevOps platform to build applications that dynamically scale resources up and down as required. Brad Murdoch, executive vice president for strategy at Lightbend, said Akka Serverless provides access to its Java development platform environment that runs atop Kubernetes […]
Tiering Cold Data to the Cloud Without Tears
The cloud provides inexpensive storage. But like everything else in the cloud, there are hidden costs. Cloud storage providers (CSPs) charge to put data into and retrieve data from the cloud. They charge for the API calls and they generally charge an egress cost when the data is extracted from the CSP. So, to keep […]
DevOps’ Data Storage Problem
The technology sector has always been about problem-solving. When the value of big data was finally embraced, thanks to new analysis capabilities developed in the late nineties and early aughts, the industry adapted its mindset toward storage by investing in on-premises data centers to help store the data that would drive better business decisions. When […]
Accurics Adds Compliance Control Support to Code Analyzer
Accurics, at the online KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2020 conference today, launched an update to its open source Terrascan static code analyzer that adds support for Open Policy Agent (OPA) engine to make it easier for developers to create custom compliance policies in addition to leveraging more than 500 out-of-the-box policies based on the CIS Benchmark. […]
Humio Adds Unlimited Ingest Plan to Log Management Service
Fresh off raising an additional $20 million in funding, Humio, a provider of a platform for analyzing log data, has added an unlimited ingest plan to a cloud-based service to make it easier for organizations to retain massive amounts of log data. The unlimited ingest plan for the company’s cloud service extends a similar option […]
Why Reinvent Deduplication? Isn’t Cloud Storage Cheap?
Most people assume cloud storage is cheaper than on-premises storage. After all, why wouldn’t they? You can rent object storage for $276 per terabyte per year or less, depending on your performance and access requirements. Enterprise storage costs between $2,500 to $4,000 per terabyte per year, according to analysts at Gartner and ESG. This comparison […]