Containers Vs. Bare Metal, VMs and Serverless for DevOps

Source:-https://containerjournal.com/ As I explained in my prior blog, Containers Practices Gap Assessment, containerizing software is valuable for DevOps. Yet, as I work with clients on their DevOps journeys, I continue to encounter organizations that haven’t grasped the importance of using containers relative to bare metal, virtual machines (VMs) and serverless computing solutions. This article is intended to help organizations understand the difference and the advantages that containers offer for DevOps. The workhorse of IT is the computer server on which

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Google launches new serverless database migration service

Source:-https://illinoisnewstoday.com/ Recently google Announcement New serverless Database Migration Service (DMS) In preview. This service supports migrating self-hosted MySQL databases on-premises or in the cloud, as well as managed databases from other clouds to Cloud SQL for MySQL. New serverless services for database migration are aimed at enterprises migrating to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) managed database services Cloud SQL Or Google computing engine Seamlessly. In addition, according to a post on the announcement blog, customers using this service will benefit from:

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Vendia Named a 2021 Gartner Cool Vendor in Cloud Computing

Source:-https://www.businesswire.com/ SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Vendia, a multi-party application development platform for sharing code and data in real time, has been recognized as a 2021 Gartner Cool Vendor in the “Cool Vendors in Cloud Computing” report by Arun Chandrasekaran, Sid Nag, and David Wright on May 13, 2021. Business critical data is dispersed across both internal and external silos, making it challenging to control and share in real time. Vendia’s decentralized data platform enables the sharing and synchronizing of data or code

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How Azure Cloud is shaping the future of cloud services

Source:-https://wire19.com/ Cloud computing is quickly gaining ground in the business world and Microsoft Azure is taking the lead. About 84% of enterprises had a multi-cloud strategy in 2019. Gartner’s Top Strategic Trends for 2021 has established that organizations require a strong AI strategy to make sure that their projects don’t stall. With cloud computing showing no signs of reducing in its application and Microsoft taking a strong lead, it is important to examine what Azure Cloud is and how it

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CISO Roundtable Recap: Rethinking Security and Governance in the Public Cloud

Source:-https://securityboulevard.com/ A few days ago, I had the privilege of attending a boardroom discussion of CISOs at the virtual Chicago CISO Summit on the topic of Rethinking Security and Governance in the Public Cloud. The boardroom discussions are great since they serve as an opportunity to benchmark various CISO topics, and to discover cloud security challenges enterprise organizations are facing. It’s clear from our discussion that the ways in which we build technology value have changed drastically. Shifts from monolithic

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Cloud Computing Will Be a Goldmine in the Post Covid-Era

Source:-https://www.entrepreneur.com/ From rapidly transforming consumer behaviors to heavily affecting economies around the globe, the Covid-19 pandemic has created a plethora of challenges and continues to have a multi-sector impact on nations and citizens alike. With the arrival of vaccinations, 2021 seems to bring a new ray of hope for economies worldwide but the fact remains: This year is going to witness the ‘survival of the fittest,’ implying that businesses that turn digital and adapt to the ‘new normal’ are likely

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Datadog to Meld Observability and DevSecOps

Source:-https://devops.com/ Datadog is planning to expand the scope of the security and observability services it provides following the acquisitions of Sqreen, an application security platform provider, and Timber Technologies, a provider of a tool, called Vector, for collecting and normalizing log data. Ilan Rabinovitch, vice president of product and community for Datadog, said Vector makes it possible to collect, enrich and transform logs and other observability data from both on-premises and in-cloud environments in a way that makes it easier

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Google Cloud, MongoDB Take Their Alliance To The Next Level

Source:-https://www.crn.com Next-generation database developer MongoDB and Google Cloud are extending the strategic alliance they launched two years ago with a new partnership deal under which the MongoDB Atlas cloud database will be integrated with a slew of Google Cloud services. The move is expected to provide systems integrators, ISVs and other solution provider partners of the two companies with new opportunities in cloud application development and cloud data migration. Google Cloud and MongoDB have undertaken the joint engineering task of

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Google Cloud Workflows Now Generally Available

Source:-https://www.infoq.com/ Google has recently announced that Google Cloud Workflows, the service to orchestrate Google Cloud and HTTP-based API services with serverless workflows, is now generally available. Workflows Connectors are now in public preview. Google Cloud Workflows requires no infrastructure management and scales on demand, including scaling down to zero if no requests are processed, It can be used to develop complex serverless applications, building on workflows that connect series of serverless tasks together in a predetermined order and work with

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Security researchers find Azure Functions vulnerability

Source:-https://www.securitymagazine.com/ Intezer researchers discovered a new vulnerability in Azure Functions, which would allow an attacker to escalate privileges and escape the Azure Functions Docker container to the Docker host. Azure Functions is a serverless compute service that allows users to run code without having to provision or manage infrastructure. Azure Functions is Microsoft’s equivalent to Amazon Web Services’ well-known Lambda service, says Intezer. After an internal assessment Microsoft has determined that the vulnerability has no security impact on Function users

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IAM Best Practices For DevOps

Source:-https://securityboulevard.com/ IAM governance is a priority for DevOps and security teams in the public cloud. Accounts, access, permissions, and privileges have become popular targets in recent cybersecurity attacks on the cloud. A well-established IAM governance policy will significantly reduce the risks of data breaches on the cloud from unauthorized access. While cloud service providers may offer effective baseline security policies that safeguard users from malicious activities, enterprises may face compromised security when implementing a multi-cloud strategy. However, multi-cloud adoption may

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AWS Glue DataBrew Visual Data Preparation is Now Generally Available

Source:-https://solutionsreview.com Amazon Web Services recently announced the general availability of AWS Glue DataBrew, a new visual data preparation tool that enables users to prepare data without writing code. While AWS Glue provides both code-based and visual interfaces, data analysts and scientists now gain an easier way to clean and transform data. AWS Glue DataBrew is a service that allows data exploration and experimentation directly from AWS data lakes, data warehouses, and databases. It also touts more than 250 pre-built transformations

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Cloud Growth and Other 2020 Trends

Source:-https://devops.com The rise of COVID-19 defined 2020 for nearly every industry. Cloud computing is no exception, though growth in the sector continued this year. Gartner estimates that $257.9 billion will be spent on public cloud services in 2020, up 6.3% from 2019. IDC reports that almost half of IT spending is cloud-based, “reaching 60% of all IT infrastructure and 60% to 70% of all software, services and technology spending in 2020.” These projections came in mid-2020, which proves that cloud

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CloudKnox extends support for serverless functions on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud

Source:-https://www.helpnetsecurity.com CloudKnox Security extended support for serverless functions on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The enhancement adds serverless functions to a substantial list of permissions management capabilities, including users, bots, service accounts, access keys, and other resources. The company also announced an integration with ServiceNow, the next step of many towards realizing CloudKnox’s next gen cloud security and permissions management vision. Together, the support for serverless functions and ServiceNow integration underscore CloudKnox’s market lead with

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Trend Micro Cloud One – File Storage Security: Designed to mitigate threats across the cloud

Source:-https://www.helpnetsecurity.com Trend Micro announced the world’s first cloud-native, fully serverless file storage security tool for organizations building applications in the cloud. Trend Micro Cloud One – File Storage Security is designed to mitigate threats across the cloud environment and support strict compliance requirements. The explosion of cloud-based file and object storage presents a new attack vector for threat actors to target with malicious files. Cloud One – File Storage Security provides automated anti-malware scanning to keep information safe and ease

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Nationwide Selects AWS as Its Preferred Cloud Provider to Deliver Digital Experiences to Customers

Source:-https://www.businesswire.com SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that Nationwide, a Fortune 100 insurance and financial services provider, is expanding its relationship with AWS and has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider. As part of its company-wide digital transformation, Nationwide is moving key, business critical workloads to AWS, including more than 850 business and customer-facing applications, such as Claims, Personal and Commercial Insurance Policy Systems, and their flagship website Nationwide.com. Leveraging the breadth and depth

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HOW TO ENSURE THE SECURITY OF CLOUD-NATIVE APPLICATIONS?

Source:-https://www.analyticsinsight.net With increasing move to cloud infrastructures, we have seen rapid growth of cloud-native applications. These applications are a collection of small, faster, and integrated services. By creating and operating cloud-native applications, businesses bring new ideas to market faster and respond instantly to customer demands. These applications typically empower enterprises to build and run scalable applications in modern, dynamic cloud environments such as public, private, and hybrid clouds. Serverless architectures, containers, Kubernetes, and others are some cloud-native applications. Though these

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ViacomCBS To Migrate Entire Broadcast Footprint to AWS Cloud as Part of New Deal

Source:-https://www.sportsvideo.org In one of the most significant commitments to the cloud by a major media company to date, ViacomCBS announced an agreement that makes Amazon Web Services the preferred cloud provider for its global broadcast media operations. As part of the strategic agreement, ViacomCBS will migrate operations for its entire broadcast footprint, which spans 425 linear television channels and 40 global data and media centers, to the AWS cloud – one of the first such large-scale transformations in the media

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Aviatrix expands its enterprise-class networking solution on AWS

Source:-https://www.helpnetsecurity.com Aviatrix announced that it will be showcasing how enterprise customers are benefiting from its most recent achievement of AWS Outposts Ready designation and support for AWS Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB) as well as its multi-cloud transit capabilities for AWS Lambda serverless computing. “Aviatrix provides the right business-critical cloud networking platform tools that enable us to do what we need to do for our hybrid environment. There’s so much flexibility; whether it’s network segmentation, integrating a newly acquired company, or

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TOP 10 CLOUD COMPUTING TRENDS FOR 2021

Source:-https://www.analyticsinsight.net Cloud computing has become as crucial to the information environment as it has to consumer’s lives. Its collaboration capacities (prominently manifested in telemedicine, internet banking, and e-commerce) typify the remote interactivity of a big data landscape shifting, inexorably perhaps, towards the edge. Cloud computing, which supported the world’s economy, worldwide supply chains and remote workforces during the coronavirus pandemic, will keep on being a fundamental objective for companies searching for increased scalability, business continuity and cost efficiency in 2021.

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