Cloud technologies are gaining momentum everyday in the largest data centers and the smallest businesses, offering services that encompass everything from the infrastructure down to the software level. There are many potential benefits as well as risks, but market leaders like Amazon, Rackspace, IBM, and Microsoft are bringing the cloud from the bleeding edge to the center of the IT landscape.
Last year, the 2021 Observability Forecast report focused on how, driven by digital transformation, full-stack observability (o11y) has become missioncritical to the success of every modern business. The report provided compelling reasons why it’s time for organizations to shift to full-stack observability so that they can plan, build, deploy, and run great software that powers ...
Log management has evolved. Organizations have moved beyond sifting through raw dumps of application and infrastructure logs whenever something breaks. Logging now plays a crucial role in an organization’s operations, business intelligence, and marketing. Logs power observability. Well-structured logs are a superpower that enable organizations to understand quickly and easily how their whole system runs—and ...
Organizations are managing a more diverse array of infrastructure than ever, which increases security, risk, and compliance concerns and affects service-level metrics. Monitoring and observability help address these concerns. However, monitoring is fragmented and significant data is unmonitored. Even so, as cloud, cloud-native, and open-source adoption, usage, and spending continue to increase, so do observability ...
PURPOSE When you evaluate cloud platforms, you need to compare features, costs, benefits, limitations and implementation details. TechRepublic Premium takes a look at the three biggest players — Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. From the cloud platform spotlight: AMAZON WEB SERVICES SUMMARY Amazon Web Services, a subsidiary of Amazon, has led ...
The rapid adoption of modern IT architectures creates a challenge for legacy methods of monitoring and performance analysis. There is increased interplay between DevOps, security, site reliability engineering (SRE) and infrastructure and operations (I&O) practices — and business leadership is now more involved and more aware. Digital business observability and customer experience are key drivers ...
PURPOSE The policy’s purpose is to define proper practices for using Apple iCloud services whenever accessing, connecting to, or otherwise interacting with organization systems, services, data and resources. This policy, from TechRepublic Premium, can be customized as needed to fit the needs of your organization. From the policy: POLICY DETAILS All organization representatives, including all ...
As advanced AWS partners, Anchor offers a range of scalable AWS cloud management plans for your business which are designed to act like outsourced IT teams for SMBs and emerging enterprise. There is no need to keep costly personnel on your payroll with Anchor, as all of your cloud services can be managed by our ...
Whatever the industry, today’s organizations want to become more agile so they can innovate and respond to changes faster. However, they also manage a portfolio of applications and workloads that are complex and built over a long period of time. When you re evaluate your application portfolio, you have the opportunity to consider the best ...
Data in transit means data is at risk if the proper precautions aren’t followed. Data stored inside a securely monitored environment is much less likely to fall into the wrong hands than data exchanged between people and systems. With this in mind, it is essential for company personnel to adhere to firm and clear guidelines ...
SIRIS is fundamentally different than traditional backup and recovery solutions. Utilizing a cloud-first approach, managed service providers (MSPs) can offer their clients an all-in-one solution that incorporates local backup and recovery with a secure, cloud-based repository and full disaster recovery in the cloud. All of this is administered from a multi-tenant cloud portal that allows ...
Critical business data lives on servers, personal devices, and in the cloud. If any of that data is compromised or breached, companies are vulnerable to significant revenue loss and even failure. With 85% of MSPs reporting attacks against SMBs in the last two years, MSPs need a powerful solution that protects against ransomware, accidental deletion, ...
When a client’s server goes down or is compromised in a cyberattack, managed service providers (MSPs) need an effective business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) solution to restore data and operations quickly, without sacrificing margin. That means industry-leading recovery technology from a vendor that is there to support you, no matter what. Simply put, you ...
THREAT REPORT: Exposing Malware in Linux-Based Multi-Cloud Environments 90% of cloud runs on Linux. So, is it any wonder that malware is propagating in multi-cloud environments under the radar? Current countermeasures are focused on addressing Windows-based threats, leaving multi-cloud deployments vulnerable to attacks. Based on research conducted by the VMware Threat Analysis Unit, this report ...
Your virtual machines are the backbone of your business and are essential to running your workloads, from mission-critical backup applications to test and development environments. The VMware Backup For Dummies e-book shows how to ensure seamless recovery of critical workloads with an agentless backup solution. Learn more about which recovery methods and data protection strategies ...
Most of the traditional backup solutions on the market today are not very good. Challenges include a lack of time, resources and energy from IT administrators to address real business challenges. It’s really frustrating! Subscribe to the Cybersecurity Insider Newsletter Strengthen your organization's IT security defenses by keeping abreast of the latest cybersecurity news, solutions, ...