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Why securing Kubernetes and containers can’t come ‘after the app’
Where would hybrid information technology be today without containers? The virtualized method for running distributed applications zips workloads from on-premises to cloud and back. Kubernetes — the open-source platform for orchestrating containers — helped solve the challenge of running them at scale. Now, with more and more enterprises deploying containerized apps in Kubernetes, security is ...
It’s business as usual on enterprise-ready cloud platforms
Hold those brand new, all-in-public-cloud, microservices-based horses. Leaving the on-premises data center doesn’t necessitate a full 180 for all infrastructure and applications. There’s a long hybrid arch in between for enterprises that must carry on business while modernizing. Smaller, enterprise-ready cloud platforms are luring some companies off the all-hyperscaler route. Many companies today eventually face ...
VMware taps pros in the field to write the book on SD-WAN
Software-defined wide area networking is getting a lot of press. Some claim it’s the skeleton key to a number of vexing information-technology puzzles, like multicloud and internet of things, for example. Is there a way businesses can cut through the hype and find out if SD-WAN is really for them? “There is a lot of noise out ...
NVMe over Fabrics makes room for enterprise-app explosion
We hear a lot about rapid data growth testing the capacity of enterprise storage systems. The tally of software applications is also climbing toward the ceiling. How will we accommodate them without crowding our data centers with stack upon stack of storage infrastructure? The number of enterprise apps will climb from 352 million to 792 million ...
Simple to use: These three words belie tons of work, and DevOps design is key
Simple to use. It sounds swell in marketing, but how many information-technology products live up to the phrase? With hybrid cloud, multicloud, and distributed applications, is simplicity a thing of the on-premises past? Can technologies built for these complex systems offer both flexibility and simplicity to the whole swath of customers? “The funny part about ...
Backup as a platform busts a move in multicloud, ransomware and GDPR
It looks like data-backup technology has been holding out on us. The historically siloed, unsexy wallflower in the data center has moves; it just needs space and a few apt partners to show them off. Startups and legacies alike are expanding backup software into integrated platforms featuring cross-cloud compatibility, machine learning, and application program interfaces. ...
What does backup have to do with GDPR, DevOps, security?
What’s a copy of backup data good for? It isn’t just a standby in case of disaster anymore. A host of data-management tricks and computing technologies are cropping up on top of backup data to make it more resilient to the unexpected, and less disruptive to business operations. Reliable backup software and usable data copies can improve ...
Software for service providers keeps giving to customers
Life is getting easier for those cloud service providers in competition with hyperscalers. While Amazon Web Services Inc. runs enough machines in their data centers to heat homes, smaller companies may still make do with less bulk. Technology companies are delivering subscription-based software offerings on which they can easily build. “We have our own division within Cohesity just for ...
Multicloud vs. multiple clouds: Do your clouds have anything in common?
What does it mean today when we talk about application-driven information technology? For starters, the way end users experience apps is crucial to digital business. Their performance can’t be second priority to whatever infrastructure is cheap or convenient. It also means a lot of apps in different environments potentially driving IT pros nuts. “Applications are driving ...
A hybrid pragmatist’s guide to going cloud native
What is your company’s cloud-native forecast? Developers might get flushed and excited at the thought of building cloud-native apps or learning the skills to do so. But information-technology leaders and executives may still consider cloud native too new, too expensive, or too high-tech for their organizations. Approachable new tech with cloud-native capabilities may bring it ...