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Public Cloud

Alibaba Cloud Recognized For IaaS+PaaS Abilities In 2021 Gartner® Solution Scorecard

Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, has been recognized for its critical cloud abilities of compute, storage, network and security among global cloud service providers on the newly released 2021 Gartner® Solution Scorecard for Alibaba Cloud International IaaS & PaaS. Alibaba Cloud’s IaaS (infrastructure as a service) + PaaS (platform as a service) offerings were recognized with the 3rd highest overall solution score of 81% among all evaluated international vendors in this market. Alibaba Cloud scored 86% in the required criteria in the 2021 scorecard. It also met 74% of the preferred criteria and 58%…

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Securing The Cloud: Cyber Risks And Best Practices You Need To Keep In Mind

Private businesses and government organizations are moving large parts of their infrastructure and services to the cloud. However, many don’t address cyber risks properly. Many organizations struggle to identify security risks when it comes to their infrastructure because they have no precise understanding of the model of the cloud services they are using or their cybersecurity implications. In order to maximize cloud security across an organization, it is essential to understand both. To start, let’s discuss the three main models of cloud services: Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Infrastructure-as-a-Service In the IaaS model, businesses rent or lease servers for…

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Lightbend’s Akka Serverless Platform-As-A-Service Generally Available For Stateful Serverless App Development

Lightbend, a company providing cloud-native microservice frameworks for some of the world’s largest brands, today announced the general availability of Akka Serverless, a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering that sets a new standard for cloud native application development. Akka Serverless is based on an advanced new architecture that can remove the historical limitations that prevented the development of general-purpose, business-critical applications using the serverless model. Akka Serverless enables the creation of cloud native apps using any programming language and reduces the need for databases in deploying business-critical applications. Interested parties can get started with Akka Serverless today. “For the last few months, Akka Serverless’…

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Public Cloud

IaaS Vs. PaaS: Everything You Need To Know

Guest post originally published on Msys Technology‘s blog by Akash Bakshi PaaS and IaaS are two of the earliest and most widely used cloud computing services. They are similar in some ways, yet fundamentally different types of platforms. In simple words, IaaS is the combination of PaaS, Operating System, Middleware, and Runtime. Enterprises must understand these differences to choose the right type of cloud service for a given use case. Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offers added control and flexibility over cloud infrastructure but is more complex to manage and optimize. In contrast, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solutions offer the tools and the infrastructure required to…

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Comparing Log Management SaaS And PaaS Solutions

With the ever-increasing complexity in today’s software stacks, there’s a greater need to ramp up an organization’s observability capabilities to take on challenges brought about by cloud technology. Having a robust observability mechanism helps organizations detect and remediate issues and threats to their applications and infrastructure well in advance. A log is a crucial component of any observability stack. Since their inception, logs are the single source of truth for analyzing computing systems. To that end, democratizing logging and log data can help companies take their observability capabilities to the next level. Increasing log availability, content, and log usage can…

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Simplifying SaaS, PaaS, And IaaS

Guest post originally published on Logiq’s blog by Ajit Chelat Cloud computing is everywhere. An ever-increasing number of businesses have turned to the cloud for their storage, compute, analytics, content management and business operations demands. With its ever-increasing adoption, cloud computing is quickly turning into the lifeline for infrastructure, platform, and software setups for organizations of all sizes. The compelling and affordable pricing of cloud computing technology has made it a no-brainer for companies to adopt and build their operations and offerings around the cloud. The cloud is pretty comprehensive – through the cloud, you get access to a wide variety of…

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How Internal Developer Platforms Impact Your DevOps Team Success

The last decade has seen an acceleration of software technology such as progressive web apps, cloud computing, and APIs. This has led to fundamental changes in software engineering roles, teams, tools, and processes. As teams have shifted from monoliths to microservices and seek to streamline and automate processes for speed, continuous delivery, competitive advantage, and satisfied end-users, developers are reconfiguring not only their workflow but their workplace. An example of this is the use of Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs). What is an Internal Developer Platform? Evan Bottcher, Head of Engineering at ThoughtWorks Australia defines an IDP as: “A foundation of self-service APIs,…

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DevOps Or NoOps. What Really Matters Today?

It has always been confusing what DevOps and NoOps really meant, before the pandemic hit, while we are living through it, and and beyond. The truth is that definitions evolve with the fashion and realities of times. It is up to use mere mortals to make sense of things. Technical and business requirements are more challenging and IT service becomes more and more complex. That’s why the delivery is so important and why we need to orchestrate the whole process. With the cloud, we don’t need more sysadmin, but DevOps technical and business skills are in high demand. To implement…

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Platforms

DigitalOcean Launches App Platform To Simplify Application Development In The Cloud

DigitalOcean, the cloud for developing modern apps, announced DigitalOcean App Platform, a new platform as a service (PaaS) offering that automates infrastructure management so developers can deploy their code to production in just a few clicks. The new offering advances the company’s managed services strategy to simplify cloud computing so developers as well as small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) can focus more time creating software that changes the world. “With millions of businesses started in the cloud each year, developers need a simple, fast and scalable way to ship the apps that power their ideas,” said Apurva Joshi, VP of…

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