Here’s why it’s important to build long-term cryptographic resilience
The UN has proclaimed 2025 to be the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology — cryptographic security is more important than ever. The UN has proclaimed 2025 to be the…
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Why We Need Both Cloud Engineers And Cloud Architects
Let’s clear up the confusion around the semantics of these critical roles. They offer a combo of strategic vision and on-the-ground development skills. Are you a cloud architect, engineer, or…
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Five Key Things To Consider When Building A Cloud FinOps Team
In today’s fast-paced business landscape, managing cloud costs efficiently has become crucial. To achieve this, organizations are increasingly turning to Cloud FinOps teams to optimize…
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FinOps From The Field: Cloud Cost Forecasting
Cloud computing has become an essential part of many businesses and, as a Technical Account Manager, I have seen firsthand how cloud computing can help businesses save money and improve their…
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6 Security Best Practices For Cloud-Native Applications
Building secure, resilient, and scalable cloud-native applications requires a new set of best practices that diverge from traditional application development. Start with these six. The…
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The Impact Of Public Cloud Price Hikes
The higher the cloud bills, the more questions get asked. Here’s how to evaluate if you should divorce your cloud provider. The growth and success of cloud computing are undeniable. Also…
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Organizing “spaghetti” Software So It Can Be Easily Modified
The MIT spinout Silverthread helps companies transform complex codebases into modular systems that can be changed or updated without headaches. Zach Winn | MIT…
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4 Ways To Improve Long Term Kubernetes Capacity And Cloud Costs In Kubernetes
Today, who isn’t looking for ways to minimize costs and increase efficiency? The uncertain economic environment is causing many organizations to take another look at cloud costs and…
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An AI Dilemma: How To Implement Generative AI Tools Safely And Ethically
Artificial intelligence is being used in all sorts of ways, from chatbots and virtual assistants to self-driving cars, and 97% of business owners believe that ChatGPT will help their…
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The Tug-Of-War Between Cloud Optimization And Cloud Innovation
Should budget go to innovations or fixing existing systems so they don’t bankrupt you? The future of your business may ride on the answer. It’s a budget planning meeting, which always seems to…
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10 Awesome Benefits Of Artifact Management And Why You Need It
All about artifact management, alongside 10 awesome benefits that any good Artifact Management platform will provide, including added security, traceability, and control.
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How To Value Cloud Computing Services
As the costs for cloud services continue to rise, companies need to determine if the business value of those services is worth the price tag. Value refers to the worth or usefulness that…
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Beyond the Algorithm – The Process of Managing AI Projects and Infrastructure
Like any complex system, artificial intelligence requires careful management across its entire lifecycle. AI management process refers to the planning, organizing, directing, and controlling…
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AI Building Blocks – The Critical Role Of Datasets & Algorithms
In addition to the various technologies and techniques used and employed with the A.I. practice, an orthogonal set of activities that cuts across other disciplines relates to training and the…
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Lost in Translation? A Roadmap to Understanding AI Vocabulary
In the vast and dynamic realm of Artificial Intelligence (AI), one cannot escape the labyrinth of jargons, concepts, and terminology that define its landscape. As AI continues to evolve and…
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Hierarchy and Beyond – Organisational Structures for Any Institution
Institutions , whether international or domestic, can adopt various organisational structures based on their size, objectives, sector, and the complexity of their operations. Some of the most…
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Version After Version; How The Open Source Project Kubernetes Releases Its Software
Introduction In the last few years we’ve seen development teams move away from purely local development, and a more cloud-based developer environment. The goal is increased development…
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6 Finops Best Practices To Reduce Cloud Costs
Running applications in the public cloud can be expensive. Here’s how smart teams use finops tools and best practices to plan ahead. Some devops teams wait to optimize their applications…
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Funding For Cloud-Based Generative AI
Get ready for the rush of generative AI applications heading your way in 2024, but watch out for the size of the bill. Who is going to pay for it? Even though many IT budgets are down, and…
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Building A Kubernetes Platform: How And Why To Apply Governance And Policy
A Platform, sometimes called an “internal developer platform,” is a unified infrastructure that allows development teams in a company to deliver applications rapidly and consistently. Out of…
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Amazing Federated Multicloud Apps
Applications that span multiple public clouds are becoming more popular, especially with Kubernetes and containers, but think carefully. These days I hear a lot about the goal to run federated…
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Four Steps To Managing Your Cloud Logging Costs On A Budget
As part of our ongoing series on cost management for observability data in Google Cloud, we’re going to share four steps for getting the most out of your logs while on a budget. While we’ll…
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Kubernetes Costs Less, But Less Than What?
Sure, compared to traditional IT, Kubernetes is great, but not much will beat public cloud in the long run. Let’s start with some gospel: In IT, there is no gospel. No definite “thou shalts”…
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Multi-Cloud, Still An Actual Thing After All These Years
The 2023 edition of VMware’s annual State of Kubernetes report is now out, and it’s got a lot of great information about how organizations are using Kubernetes today, as well as the…
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5 Open Ways To Help UX Designers And Developers Collaborate Better
Designing with open decisions can help increase collaboration between user experience and dev teams. Ideally, designers have a good relationship with their product team and users. However, the…
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How To Get Started With Event-Driven Microservices
Event-driven microservices are an excellent way to deliver both historical and new data to all of the systems and teams that need it, but they come with additional overhead and management…
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How Google And Intel Make Confidential Computing More Secure
Confidential Computing has quickly emerged as a critical technology to ensure confidentiality and security of sensitive data while it’s being processed. It performs computation in a hardware…
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How To Succeed With Cloud Computing During An Economic Downturn
Many say to cut cloud spending in a slowing economy, but it’s not that simple. Use these strategic moves to position yourself to lead the recovery. I’m starting to…
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Solving The Serverless Cloud Cost Conundrum
The CNCF 2022 Annual Cloud Native Survey reports a significant bump in serverless adoption. Enterprise cloud cost optimization practices must keep up to keep cloud spending in check.…
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Announcing A White Paper On Platforms For Cloud Native Computing
Community post by Josh Gavant and Abby Bangser, CNCF’s Platforms WG CNCF’s Platforms working group (WG) is pleased to announce the first release of a whitepaper to provide guidance and…
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How I Learned The Hard Way To Keep My Website Updated
My mistake was a good learning experience for me and a reminder that I must not become complacent. A few days ago, I received an email from a reader of one of my books. Among other things, he…
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The Changing World Of Java
Vaadin’s State of Java Report is a treasure trove of knowledge about how developers are using Java today. Let’s dig in. Vaadin recently released new research on the state of Java…
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5 Priorities That Cut Cloud Costs And Improve IT Ops
With infrastructure as code, virtual desktop infrastructure, and a proactive approach to incident management, you can help keep cloud costs reasonable. During the past decade, companies have…
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Open Source Tools For Mind Mapping
Use mind maps with open source tools to make an impactful presentation. In today’s world and social media, many people don’t have the patience to read lengthy textual content.…
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Bringing Observability To Cloud Security
Cloud security threats are increasing in both frequency and intensity. We need better visibility into potential threats and proactive approaches to addressing risk. Security observability is…
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How AI Can Improve Digital Security
AI is having a transformative moment and causing profound shifts in what’s possible with technology. It has the power to unlock the potential of communities, companies, and countries around…
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Why Is Your Multicloud So Slow?
Many complain about the performance of their multicloud deployments these days, and for good reasons. Here are a few areas to look for answers. It’s a Wednesday, and the accounting team is…
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3 Ways To Screw Up A Multicloud Deployment
We’re experienced with multicloud, but we’re also making common mistakes. Make sure you plan common services and have all your people on board. I guess I could place some stat here that shows…
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5 GKE Features To Help You Optimize Your Clusters
In this post, we’ll be discussing 5 features in GKE you can use to optimize your clusters today. To get started with testing these in GKE, check out our interactive tutorials for getting…
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The ABCs Of Building Reliable, Scalable, And Maintainable Web Applications – Reliability
Reliability, Scalability, and Maintainability are some of the least understood concepts of application development. Even with little understanding of these topics, many developers use them on…
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Network Detection And Response: The Future Of Cybersecurity
Did you know that 236.1 million ransomware attacks occurred worldwide in the first half of 2022 alone? Traditional security approaches are not as effective in protecting against…
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How To Improve Query Speed To Make The Most Out Of Your Data
The world is getting more and more value out of data, as exemplified by the currently much-talked-about ChatGPT, which I believe is a robotic data analyst. However, in today’s era,…
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Building Streaming Data Pipelines On Google Cloud
Many customers build streaming data pipelines to ingest, process and then store data for later analysis. We’ll focus on a common pipeline design shown below. It consists of three steps: For…
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Discovering 10 Cybersecurity Practices for Enhanced IT Infrastructure Protection
Cybersecurity is a rapidly growing concern for organizations today. With the increasing reliance on digital systems, cyber threats have become a major challenge for companies of all sizes.…
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The Cost And Sustainability Of Generative AI
All the people using DALL-E to create images or letting ChatGPT write their term papers are eating up a lot of cloud resources. Who’s going to pay for all this? AI is resource intensive for…
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Introducing New Cloud Services And Pricing For Ultimate Flexibility
As the saying goes, “it’s hard to make predictions, especially about the future.” Some organizations find it challenging to predict what cloud resources they’ll need in months or years ahead.…
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IBM, Vodafone, And GSMA Members Outline Critical Pathways To Protect Telcos Against Quantum-Era Cyberthreats
Experts say adoption of standards within the next few years is essential to help secure telco data and infrastructure from quantum-powered cyberattacks February 23, 2023 — As part of the…
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Planning An IPv6 Network On Google Cloud
Google Cloud supports a wide range of IPv6 capabilities. When using IPv6 addressing, Google Cloud gives you the choice of using Global Unicast Addresses (GUA) for external connectivity or…
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Access Control Set Up On Storage Transfer Service
Google Cloud Storage Transfer Service (STS) enables you to move or backup your data to a Cloud Storage bucket or POSIX file system. It offers flexibility and allows horizontal scaling,…
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Why Are Enterprises Moving On Multi-Cloud/Hybrid Strategies?
There has been a lot of discussion about the rising trend of businesses using private, public, and hybrid cloud services in their multi-cloud strategy. The architecture of multi-cloud allows…
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Privacera Connects To Dremio’s Data Lakehouse To Aid Data Governance
The integration of open-source based Privacera into Dremio’s data lakehouse is designed to allow joint customer enterprises to manage and organize secure data access. Open-source based data…
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