Ahead in the Clouds

March 2017

Lock-in: Using cloud-neutral technology to avoid it
Caroline Donnelly - Senior Editor, UK 30 Mar 2017

In this guest post, Gary Bloom, CEO of database software supplier MarkLogic, explains why adopting a cloud-neutral strategy is essential for enterprises to avoid lock-in. Not so long ago, choosing ...

Amazon S3 outage: Acknowledging the role humans play in keeping the cloud going
Caroline Donnelly - Senior Editor, UK 06 Mar 2017

The Amazon cloud storage outage provides a neat reminder about the role humans continue to play in the delivery of online services, but - when things go wrong - end-user sympathy for the plight of ...

SearchCIO

Senators press Facebook, Google on consumer data value
Facebook and Google took the hot seat Tuesday during a Senate subcommittee hearing to defend their companies' business practices ...
FTC rescinds vertical merger guidelines, raises concerns
The FTC recently rescinded its 2020 guidance for vertical mergers. Meanwhile, Pres. Joe Biden plans to nominate a new ...
Top 10 promising 5G use cases CIOs should know
The technological advantages 5G presents are well known. The hard part for business leaders is choosing where 5G implementation ...

SearchSecurity

Microsoft releases emergency Exchange Server mitigation tool
Microsoft turned its attention to organizations that are slower to patch by releasing an emergency mitigation tool as a temporary...
Ransomware: Has the U.S. reached a tipping point?
The ransomware problem has grown more severe in recent years due to a growing number of attacks against large organizations and ...
SolarWinds hackers Nobelium spotted using a new backdoor
Microsoft researchers believe Nobelium, the Russian-backed group that breached SolarWinds, has been using a backdoor tool called ...

SearchNetworking

Automate network validation for smoother changes
Teams can verify network state before and after network changes to ensure smooth deployment of the changes. Automating those pre-...
Ways to speed up white box networking adoption
Most organizations are slow to deploy new techniques, white box networking included. Experts explain why and offer advice on how ...
A review of Cato Networks' SASE Cloud platform
Cato's SASE Cloud lacks some features and may require customers to replace point products to fully benefit from the platform. But...

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An introduction to using diff and patch together
Use the diff command in Linux to discover subtle differences between code files. Then, use the patch command to update those code...
Considerations for sustainable data center design
To design a green, sustainable data center, consider methods to improve energy conservation and efficiency. Then, look into green...
Use colocation and cloud together
Rather than deciding between cloud or colocation, consider using both cloud and colocation. Colocation can support a hybrid cloud...

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HPE intros GreenLake data lakehouse fabric for analytics
HPE taps multiple open source technologies, including Kubernetes, Apache Spark and Delta Lake, for developing new data fabric ...
The benefits and pitfalls of cloud-based data management systems
Learn the benefits of cloud-based data management systems, common pitfalls and strategies when considering varying data levels ...
NoSQL database types explained: Column-oriented databases
Learn about the uses of column-oriented databases and the large data model, data warehouses and high-performance querying ...

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March 2017

Lock-in: Using cloud-neutral technology to avoid it

Amazon S3 outage: Acknowledging the role humans play in keeping the cloud going