Italy unveils plans for cybersecurity agency to aid its cloud strategy

Source:-https://cloudcomputing-news.net/ Italy plans to set up a national agency tasked with combating cyber attacks as it continues work on its unified cloud infrastructure. The country is one of many European nations attempting to enhance their cybersecurity capabilities. Many aspects of Italy’s digital security, which are dispersed among various Ministers and state bodies, are to be brought together under the authority of the Prime Minister. The general director and his deputy will be appointed for four years, according to a draft

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Ingram Micro accelerates data centre strategy with Veeam and Zadara Cloud Services

Source:-https://www.intelligentcio.com/ Demonstrating its strength in data centre and integrated solutions, Ingram Micro Inc, has said it is first to market with all-in-one compute- and storage- As-a-Service solution sets from Veeam and Zadara. At the heart of the new alliance is Ingram Micro’s state-of-the-art Integration Centre. Established in 2018, the Integration Centre builds technology from the ground up to spec or specialisation – offering channel partners everything from system design to compatibility and regulatory engineering. Both Veeam and Zadara are leveraging

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Remote learning and collaboration: How to set up your cloud storage strategy for success

Source:-https://cloudcomputing-news.net/ With the UK in the midst of its third lockdown of the last twelve months, the enforced shift to remote learning has been a learning curve for schools, universities and other education providers, with teachers and students now required to access course materials and administrative documents via digital means. It has shown just how essential digital solutions are to creating a successful learning environment online. Additionally, continued advances in the education sector mean that it’s an industry generating huge

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The 4 rules of a microservices defense-in-depth strategy

Source:-https://searchapparchitecture.techtarget.com Defense-in-depth is a popular security strategy that places the applications and data (or groups of applications and data) that inhabit an architecture into designated security layers. While attackers could still gain access to one part of a system, the idea is that these multiple, varied security layers will prevent that attack from universally gaining system access. However, the defense-in-depth strategy presents a unique challenge when it comes to microservices, simply because the proliferation of independent services involved creates a

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How Not to Sabotage Your Multi-Cloud Strategy

Source:- devops.com The immense pressure for enterprises to deliver new applications and insights that exploit new business opportunities has been a driving force for digital transformation. This, in turn, has led IT leaders to embrace a multi-cloud strategy—whether that’s deploying a combination of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure and Google, or extending private data centers to the public cloud—to achieve greater agility, optimized performance and cost savings resulting from deploying workloads across multiple cloud platforms. However, maintaining multiple cloud

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How the combination of cloud and AI is influencing IT investment strategy

Source:- cloudcomputing-news.net The pace of change from a traditional capital-intensive IT infrastructure model to a more flexible hybrid multi-cloud services model is influencing enterprise spending trends across the globe. Worldwide IT spending is forecast to total $3.79 trillion in 2019 — that’s an increase of just 1.1 percent from 2018, according to the latest global market study by Gartner. IT infrastructure market development “Currency headwinds fuelled by the strengthening US dollar have caused us to revise our 2019 IT spending forecast down

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ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF CLOUD COMPUTING MARKET, ADVANCEMENT STRATEGY, MAIN TOP PLAYERS, ANALYSIS AND FORECAST TO 2024

Source:- thescrippsvoice.com Cloud Computing Market 2019 report contains a focused socio-economic, political, and environmental analysis of the factors affecting the Cloud Computing industry. The report contains an analysis of the technologies involved in production, application and much more. The report also carries in-depth case studies on the various countries which are actively involved in the Cloud Computing production. An analysis of the technical barriers, other issues, cost effectiveness affecting the Cloud Computing Market. Determining the opportunities, future of the Cloud Computing

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Why Digitization Requires A New IT Operating Model

Source:- informationweek.com Digitization offers IT teams unprecedented opportunities to create value by becoming digital change agents for the enterprise, but the way most IT teams operate cannot support this ambition. As technology becomes central to company strategy and growth, IT teams face faster business change and rising volatility in demand, and they must rethink how they respond to technology spending outside of IT. In this environment, traditional ways of running IT, such as plan/build/run, are falling short. CIOs need a

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The true meaning of devops by Eric Knorr

Source – infoworld.com If you’re still puzzled about devops, allow me to make a recommendation: Read The Devops Handbook by Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, and John Willis. It’s a beautifully crafted, no-nonsense book that is filled with case studies and actionable advice intended to help you boost productivity by magnitudes. The Handbook is not structured the way you might expect. Only one section is devoted to what the authors call “the technical practices of flow” from development to operations,

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