Native cloud services work—up to a point. They speed development of applications that meet the needs of a majority of customers. However, native services are specific to a single cloud provider and they lack the flexibility to accommodate customers whose needs don’t align with those of the majority. Integrating third party vendors that offer common
The complexity and distribution of modern applications across cloud and private platforms creates challenges in visibility, analytics, and troubleshooting. By keeping data siloed or restricted to regional owners or functional teams, we expose applications to critical negative business impacts. Merging and finding relationship between distributed analytics, like application telemetry, events, and logs provides new insight
What lies beneath: a podcast for curious IT architects Our new podcast offers a deep dive into the technology and trends that drive modern IT. Each episode features a conversation with an IT expert about the technologies, processes, and cultural trends that impact today’s dynamic IT organizations. In 2006, Amazon launched Amazon Web Services (AWS),
It is common for IT departments to emphasize speed by empowering software developers to move quickly, but that is only half the race. In addition to accelerating the rate at which new software is launched (or existing software is updated), it is also vital to identify ways the overall business can be made more responsive
With a growing number of apps moving to the cloud, secure application architecture is more important than ever. Learn the three cloud architecture principles that can help you foster secure cloud resilience in your environment. Secure Cloud Architecture: The Foundation for Resilient Apps There are a lot of good reasons for a business to move
The financial services industry continues to demonstrate technology leadership by implementing the newest technology available. This in turn challenges technology providers to offer business solutions that drive revenue, enhance customer engagement, and deliver on the promise of digital trust—all at a pace that is faster than their peers in other industries. We isolated finance professionals’
Growing customer demand and cloud efficiency gains are accelerating development of innovative financial services applications—and, at the same time, exposing potential security vulnerabilities. Because sensitive financial data is so highly valued by bad actors, financial services organizations need to take every precaution to ensure secure application development and deployment while supporting governance, risk, and compliance
It is imperative for financial institutions to stay competitive in digital financial services. Competition is on all sides, from new fintech startups to big tech companies like Amazon, Facebook, and Google that are encroaching into financial services. The legacy systems that underpin large banks today are reliable and scalable, but they lack the agility and
In Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Valley of Fear, Sherlock Holmes informs a local inspector that “the temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.” In today’s information-flooded business world, access to sufficient data isn’t a problem. But we often struggle with a different challenge—inefficient data. Data and analytics are
Application security is hard. We see headlines about data breaches almost daily. According to F5 Labs, web application attacks are the #1 single source entry point of successful data breaches. Additionally, the fallout from application attacks come with high costs. What is it about web applications that makes them so precarious? Insecure software. The challenges