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Ahead in the Clouds

Analysis of the latest trends in cloud and datacentre technology.

October 2017

Halloween horrors: When a datacentre migration takes a dark turn
Caroline Donnelly - Senior Editor, UK 30 Oct 2017

In this guest post, Drew Nielsen, chief trust officer at cloud-based backup provider Druva, shares a scary and hairy tale about how shortfalls in any company's upkeep and maintenance schedule can ...

Discussing DevOps: A toast to the T-shaped engineers
Caroline Donnelly - Senior Editor, UK 17 Oct 2017

In this guest post, Steve Lowe, CTO of student accommodation finder Student.com, introduces the concept of T-shaped engineers and the value they can bring to teams tasked with delivering DevOps-led ...

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C-suite executives offer advice on working remotely during pandemic

C-level execs in industries from biotech and telecom to accounting and marketing are making sure their employees have the proper ...

How IT can build an agile business partnership

Gene Kim, award-winning researcher, author and founder of IT Revolution, discusses why IT leaders need to involve their ...

Former Cisco CEO offers C-suite leadership tips in time of crisis

COVID-19 is forcing enterprises to make tough decisions. There is no one-size-fits-all roadmap, but those who've survived earlier...

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Risk & Repeat: Zoom security comes under fire

This week's Risk & Repeat podcast looks at several security issues Zoom faced over the last week, which led to questions about ...

Zoom zero-day vulnerabilities patched a day after disclosure

An ex-NSA hacker reported two zero-day vulnerabilities on his blog Wednesday. One of them can give an attacker control of a ...

Beazley: Ransomware attacks on clients 'skyrocketed' in 2019

The 2020 Beazley Breach Briefing reported a 131% increase in reported attacks against clients last year, and the insurance giant ...

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CloudGenix-Palo Alto buy combines SD-WAN with cloud security

The CloudGenix-Palo Alto Networks acquisition will combine the Prisma cloud security suite with CloudGenix's software-defined WAN.

A deep dive into the differences between 5G and Wi-Fi 6

While the latest cellular and Wi-Fi technology generations -- 5G and Wi-Fi 6, respectively -- have been pitted against one ...

Maintaining network infrastructure in a pandemic and beyond

Network infrastructure that supports remote workers is essential today and will be far into the future. That includes VPN ...

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Tech giants aim supercomputers, clouds at finding a COVID-19 cure

The new COVID-19 HPC consortium comprised of tech giants, national labs and academia are using supercomputers and clouds to speed...

Top vendor SDDC certification programs for admins

If you decide to grow your knowledge of software-defined data center technologies, VMware, Nuage Networks and Microsoft offer ...

Build up your knowledge of leaf-spine network technology

As organizations deal with challenges of single tree path networks, many admins are considering leaf-spine architectures. Learn ...

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Oracle NoSQL database comes to the cloud

Another Oracle database is coming to the cloud with the general availability of Oracle NoSQL Database Cloud Service as the demand...

MariaDB SkySQL enables cloud-native database as a service

MariaDB brings back an old name for its cloud-native database-as-a-service platform. MariaDB CEO Michael Howard details how he's ...

DataStax making Cassandra easier with Kubernetes Operators

New Kubernetes tool for the Apache Cassandra database is DataStax's attempt to create a broadly adopted approach for cloud native...