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Can backup take on the data regulations frightening enterprises?
Has anyone noticed these data backup and recovery companies inflicting identity crises on themselves? For the past couple of years, they’ve been loudly rebranding their products data management solutions. They must have heard the customer footsteps coming. This new, multitalented backup is suddenly a heavyweight contender against obstacles to cloud adoption. And, to some, it looks ...
If your storage isn’t cloudy, it could rain on your data strategy
With data becoming the active, living core of digital business, the place where it lives, leaves, and goes home to must meet new standards. Storage today is less cloudified — agile, automated, etc. — compared to other infrastructure. This can potentially drag down a company’s entire data strategy. “We’ve just got a million snowflakes in storage,” said Matt Kixmoeller ...
Cloud-native reliability can’t guarantee reliable UX
“Our user ratings have tanked.” “What? Is our cloud-native technology stack broken?” “No, it’s working perfectly.” “Hmmm.” Some variant of that little chat may happen in businesses that go cloud native, assuming it’s better for absolutely everything. In fact, cloud-native scalability and reliability can make the UX a whole lot less reliable for application users. ...
Do you really know your IT? Discovery tools unearth high-risk surprises
If the average enterprise could see every part composing its infrastructure and applications, they’d be worried. Is that supposed to be there? Shouldn’t this be over there? Is it secure? What would happen if that were to malfunction? Like lifting a mattress, close examination can reveal some yucky stuff. Left uncleaned, it can stink up the ...
How a real business picks winners in mercurial tech market
Here on theCUBE, you hear it first when a ripple of innovation is made in tech’s constantly renewing waters. But not all of us are ready for cloud-native, serverless, microservices-orchestration platforms, or what-have-you, just yet. We also ask real-world businesses how they’re coping with their technology aches and pains today. “The bleeding edge doesn’t always work for ...
Tech companies chip away at tall order for Easy-Bake multicloud
Love it or hate it, multicloud is the future. Modern digital business necessitates it; vendors struggle to develop products that make it easier, while customers impatiently wave cash in front of them. Unfortunately, easy multicloud probably won’t be under the tree this Christmas. But every other tech company in Silicon Valley is trying to make ...
Everything old is new again in Fortinet’s 2019 Q3 ‘Threat Landscape Report’
Businesses all over are worried that they’re ill prepared to fend off novel cybersecurity threats. A quick scan of the latest “Threat Landscape Report” from Fortinet Inc. may calm their frazzled nerves. It shows that new intrusion methods have more or less plateaued. Deeper examination, however, reveals darker pixels in a still-scary cybercrime picture. Entry ...
What’s it like knee-deep in Kubernetes? One word: DevSecOps
Kubernetes is the enabler behind a lot of cutting-edge information technology. Multicloud — a term we hear similarly often these days — may not even be feasible without it. But to manifest a new wave of higher-level, Kubernetes-driven computing, the industry really has to get this security thing figured out. Kubernetes, on the surface, is an open-source ...
There aren’t enough humans for cloud-native infra. Can DevOps deal?
Applications are the tip of the iceberg in cloud-native computing. When monoliths shard into microservices and containers (a virtualized method for running distributed applications), the underlying infrastructure feels it. So do administrators and developer operations teams. How can they possibly spread themselves thin enough to handle all these distributed components? They can’t, and they shouldn’t ...
State of the application address: Can CNDb fill Kubernetes storage gap?
Kubernetes just keeps barreling over ground in modern hybrid technology; it’s in the cloud; it’s on premises; it’s at the edge; it’s for applications; it’s for data. Can anything block its tear through information-technology environments? Actually, there has always been stateful applications. Stateful apps — those that save client data from one session to the next ...