Digital Risk is Shifting to the Cloud Cloud services are frequently associated with digital transformation and innovation; however, these services also expand cyber attack surfaces for threat actors to exploit. According to Oracle’s 2020: Top Ten Cloud Predictions1, 7 out of 10 organizations will keep business-critical data in the cloud. While moving to cloud apps
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
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
Picture this: The long-awaited overhaul of your application is finally launched when, almost immediately, errors start popping up on the dashboard you and the app business owner are monitoring. You have no idea what’s wrong. It could be anything, from a networking issue, to a cyberattack, to a flaw in the application code. Fortunately, your
Speed and agility continue to be among the leading motives for enterprise cloud adoption, since slow has become unacceptable in this fast-paced world we live in. But as a DevOps practitioner tasked with accelerating app deployments while improving app performance and ensuring security, what does it take to modernize your systems and processes to overcome
We’re talking, of course, about your relationship with your cloud provider’s native application services for security and performance. Services which are, admittedly, perfectly fine—until you realize you need more. So, what are the signs that you’ve outgrown those cloud-native security and performance services? Before we go there, it’s worth remembering what attracted you to native
Challenges of extending data centers to the public cloud. Before reaping the benefits of public cloud, organizations must successfully integrate their on-premises data centers with the off-premises cloud, which is no easy task. There are many technical, process, and skill differences required to leverage these environments. Explore how VMware CloudTM on AWS helps to address
In this eBook, we’ll explore the industry shifts driving cloud adoption for elastic capacity, the challenges enterprises face in this new paradigm, and how emerging services are making seamless scalability from the data center to the cloud a reality.
What is your hybrid cloud strategy? Organizations will continue to benefit from their data center investments, yet many of these organizations are also looking to benefit from the unique advantages offered by public cloud that cannot be cost-effectively delivered with today’s static data center environments.