March 12, 2021 bestdevops IT Training Leave a comment

Google’s Mission Critical Services offering raises the bar for cloud customer support

Source:-https://siliconangle.com/ Google LLC debuted a more robust customer support service for its public cloud infrastructure platform today called Mission Critical Services, aimed at customers wanting to ensure that their most critical business applications will never fail. Google Cloud Customer Experience Vice President John Jester told SiliconANGLE that some of Google’s cloud customers have extremely demanding environments, and that even a minute of downtime can mean millions of dollars in lost revenue. Jester called out financial services, telecommunications and retail, all

March 4, 2021 bestdevops Cloud Computing Leave a comment

CLOUD COMPUTING AND SAAS: WHY ARE BUSINESSES PIVOTING SOFTWARE-AS-A-SERVICE?

Source:-https://www.analyticsinsight.net Cloud is one of the hottest buzzwords in the tech-powered 21st century. Amid the coronavirus mayhem of 2020, many organizations turned to cloud platforms and applications as the panacea to the challenge of protecting employees’ health while equipping them with the tools to remain productive in WFH condition. In business jargon, cloud computing refers to using a vendor’s ready-made remote servers, which are located in a data center, to store, manage, and process data, instead of a local server

January 23, 2021 bestdevops Continuous Delivery Leave a comment

Security ‘shifts left’ to debug critical code before software deployment

Source:-https://siliconangle.com/ The cybersecurity world is a race against time: Organizations have a finite amount of resources and limited runway to find and fix bugs in code before malicious actors can discover and exploit them with damaging results. The way to best minimize this exposure is to fix bugs before software has been deployed into cloud native or other environments. That means catching potentially fatal flaws as code is being written using tools that continuously integrate and scan in-process. It’s an

November 13, 2020 bestdevops GitHub Leave a comment

Alleged source code of penetration testing software Cobalt Strike published on GitHub

source:-https://siliconangle.com Source code allegedly belonging to commercial penetration testing software Cobalt Strike has been published on GitHub, potentially providing a new path for hackers to attack companies. Penetration testing, usually abbreviated as pen testing, has legitimate uses as a security tool to test security but can also be used by bad actors to attack a company. Ethical pen testing involves simulated attacks on a computer system to evaluate the security of the given system. In the hands of hackers, the

October 9, 2020 bestdevops Continuous Deployment Leave a comment

Shipa debuts its cloud-native application management framework

Source:-https://siliconangle.com Shipa Corp., a startup that has built a cloud-native application management framework for managing the full app development lifecycle, is emerging from stealth mode today after banking $3.75 million in seed funding round led by Engineering Capital and Jump Capital. Shipa is trying to make life easier for developers that build containerized applications based on Kubernetes. Software containers are used to host the components of modern apps that can run on any infrastructure, while Kubernetes is the open-source software

August 27, 2020 DM Team Google Cloud Leave a comment

New features for Google Cloud spring from company’s significant IT resources

Source:-siliconangle Google LLC has a history of generating new products from the tools it uses to run a vast global information-technology network. Several of its more recent new cloud product and service releases appear to have been created with the idea that its customers will take full advantage of the company’s sizable infrastructure. Google Cloud VMware Engine was built inside Google to allow customers to run VMware as-a-service on top of the cloud provider’s infrastructure. “We built this as-a-service so

August 24, 2020 DM Team Cloud Computing, IT Training Leave a comment

Microsoft looks to secure more cloud contracts with foreign governments

Source:-siliconangle Microsoft Corp. is eyeing more cloud computing deals similar to the $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract it won from the U.S. Department of Defense last year. The company is targeting foreign governments with similar initiatives as it looks to expand its “cloud-based computing and storage resources at all government security classification levels,” CNBC said in a report Friday. Under the JEDI contract, Microsoft will provide the Pentagon with an extensive cloud computing infrastructure and access to secure,