DevSecOps report: Cloud IT complexity creates ‘immutable’ security issues

Source:-zdnet.com Cloud IT deployments can be so complex that security issues cannot be fixed easily — so they aren’t — raising the attack surface for enterprises. A report on DevOps security has found that only 4% of issues found in production are dealt with because of the increased complexity of cloud based IT systems is creating new security gaps. The State of DevSecOps report was commissioned by Accurics — which specializes in addressing IT security through infrastructure as code in

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Google Cloud and Splunk Announce Strategic Partnership to Help Customers Gain Deeper Insights from Data

Source:-martechseries.com Splunk Cloud will be available on Google Cloud’s scalable and secure infrastructure Google Cloud and Splunk Inc., provider of the Data-to-Everything platform, announced a new strategic partnership to help organizations drive actionable insights from their data and enable better, faster decisions with real-time visibility across the enterprise. Splunk Cloud will soon be available on Google Cloud to help customers unlock the value of their data and provide increased flexibility for harnessing the power of the Splunk Data-to-Everything Platform. Marketing

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AWS expands beyond edge connectivity in Italy with datacentre region opening

Source:-computerweekly.com Amazon Web Services (AWS) has pressed ahead with the opening of its datacentre region in Milan, Italy, as that country’s businesses draw on public cloud resources to support them through the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. Italy has emerged as one of the worst hit by the global Covid-19 outbreak, and was among the first countries in the world to enforce a national quarantine in response to the pandemic. In a blog post announcing the launch of the AWS region in

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VMware, a leader in cloud infrastructure and remote work, dropped employees at the worst time

Source:-media.thinknum.com Coronavirus pandemic shelter-at-home mandates have led to a massive rise in work-from-home tools like Zoom and Cisco Webex teleconferencing software, the former seeing usage spike by as much as 300%. This has led to reports of Microsoft Cloud server demand being up by 775%. Several of our 10 early indicators of recovery are related or connected factors, such as online classes. Yet, strangely, VMware ($NYSE:VMW) is losing employees after a quiet round of layoffs beginning in February, according to

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Cloud computing spending breaks all records in 2019

Source:-techradar.com AWS retains its lead but Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud are growing fast Organizations worldwide spent a record $107bn on cloud computing infrastructure services last year according to a new report from Canalys. Spending on cloud computing infrastructure services was up by 37 percent compared to the previous year and a third of this year’s spending went to Amazon’s cloud computing division, AWS. As industries continue to digitize, businesses have increased how much they spend on infrastructure as a

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Cloud Testing Market Research and Technology Developments 2020 to 2024

Source:-citiblognews.com The report presents an in-depth assessment of the Global Cloud Testing including enabling technologies, key trends, market drivers, challenges, standardization, regulatory landscape, deployment models, operator case studies, opportunities, future roadmap, value chain, ecosystem player profiles and strategies. The report also presents forecasts for Global Cloud Testing investments from 2020 till 2024. The cloud testing market is expected to register a CAGR of over 12% over the forecast period (2020 – 2024). The Global Cloud Testing market is highly competitive

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Serverless: Is It The Kubernetes Killer?

Source:-forbes.com A few years ago, many believed OpenStack was going to take over the world. It was inevitable, and no one questioned it. Docker shifted the landscape, and then along came Kubernetes, which was another game-changer. Today, everyone is excitedly talking about serverless (functions as a service). Did Kubernetes kill the OpenStack engineer? Is serverless going to kill Kubernetes? The pace of innovation in the cloud over the last five years has been astounding to watch. There is no arguing that the technology is moving at

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Amazon wraps Oracle to AWS migration, looks to poach workloads

Source:- searchaws.techtarget.com Amazon has moved its consumer division’s IT operations off of Oracle’s database and onto AWS services, a towering effort that gives it a calling card to attract highly critical enterprise workloads. Amazon’s consumer division has completed its migration off of Oracle’s database, a gargantuan effort to shed the company’s reliance on a rival technology provider and generate a top-tier customer case study that could help sell more AWS database services. The Oracle to AWS migration project took several

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Future of Cloud Infrastructure Market Analyzed in a New Study

Source: arapidnewsnetwork.com Cloud computing is an innovation for data storage. It generally consists of three services software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and infrastructure as a service (IaaS). Cloud computing is growing due to increasing expense in ICT spending and trend of big data and analytics. Cloud infrastructure refers to the software and hardware components such as networking, storage, servers, and virtualization software that are required for a cloud computing model to operate. Cloud infrastructure also

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6 Cloud Security Predictions for 2019

Source- darkreading.com In 2018, more organizations adopted cloud computing, and at a rapidly growing pace. The main drivers for cloud were high efficiency, easier and faster deployments, and, of course, scalability. But from a security perspective, the speedy adoption of cloud computing is forcing security professionals to learn about new challenges, cloud-specific risks, and relevant mitigations as well as to develop more modern cybersecurity strategies. The past year also brought with it a greater number of security incidents related to misconfigured

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Cloud computing is making data centers more efficient.

Source- digitaljournal.com Cloud computing is changing the way many businesses deploy applications, control users, and deliver resources. The ability to interconnect data centers enables organizations of all sizes to be more agile and cost-effective — and become more competitive. Data centers are complex systems, composed of elements like routers, switches, security devices, storage systems, servers and application delivery controllers. Today many businesses have an option to provision a virtual data center in the cloud. A cloud data center ensures more power, safer

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Top 10 Ways To Achieve Agile Security

Source:- itbusinessnet.com Between 2017 and 2021, worldwide spending on cybersecurity will top $1 trillion, according to Cybersecurity Ventures. From new threat vectors within networks to the barrage of cyberattacks due to the move to the cloud, CIOs and CISOs have more to consider around cybersecurity than ever before. Cloud has brought benefits such as agility, scalability, and cost savings to business. Unfortunately, more often than not, security can’t keep up. Many businesses have witnessed the benefits of cloud firsthand. To enable

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