Articles about Cloud

Enterprises are increasingly turning to cloud and hybrid solutions. In order to help them unlock the benefits that this transition offers, today sees the launch of IBM Cloud for VMware as a Service.

The new offering provides an operated, secured and managed service by IBM Cloud, to help enterprises deploy cloud with the VMware software stack and IBM Cloud infrastructure.

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Businesses of all sizes are keen to reduce their carbon footprints and impact on the environment. Moving systems to the cloud can be a tempting approach but one that risks simply moving your impact elsewhere.

Leah Goldfarb has recently been appointed as environmental impact officer at enterprise PaaS provider Platform.sh, we spoke to her to discover more about the role and the importance of environmental issues to the industry.

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Cloud technology has been gaining momentum in the last couple of years.

It threw a lifeline to companies by making remote work at the start of the crisis possible, enabled scaling for a reduced cost, and made information that much more accessible. However, all of these benefits also come with security risks for organizations that haven’t adequately protected their new infrastructure.

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Companies are increasingly recognizing the increasing need to protect their SaaS environments, with almost 90 percent of Microsoft 365 customers now using supplemental measures rather than relying solely on built-in recovery capabilities.

The latest study from data protection specialist Veeam finds 98 percent of organizations use a cloud-hosted infrastructure like Backup-as-a-Service or Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service as part of their data protection strategy.

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Dropbox has revealed details of a phishing attack to which it fell victim. In the attack, a threat actor was able to steal code from the company after gathering employee credentials to GitHub repositories.

The security breach took place in the middle of last month, with GitHub notifying Dropbox of suspicious account activity on October 14. The cloud storage company says that the code that was accessed "contained some credentials -- primarily, API keys -- used by Dropbox developers" but insists that "no one's content, passwords, or payment information was accessed", and that its core apps and infrastructure were unaffected.

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Windows 10 users who installed Patch Tuesday updates this month have reported that OneDrive and OneDrive for Business is broken.

The problem relates to the KB5018410 update and others released after it. People affected by the issue report app crashes, being unable to sign out of OneDrive, problems with syncing, and various other symptoms. Microsoft acknowledged the problem fairly quickly and has now issued an emergency fix (the KB5020953 update).

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Cloud Security Handbook helps you to understand how to embed security best practices in each of the infrastructure building blocks that exist in public clouds.

This book will enable information security and cloud engineers to recognize the risks involved in public cloud and find out how to implement security controls as they design, build, and maintain environments in the cloud.

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With most enterprises leveraging at least one type of cloud deployment today, the question arises: is the cloud more or less secure than on-premise solutions?

The reality is that for on prem or even private cloud environments, the approach to security largely relies on a barrier defense. When organizations are compromised within this barrier, it can basically become open season for malicious actors, which we’ve seen in marquee incidents such as the Target data breach, the Home Depot hack in 2014, or the recent Uber breach, which exploited an unpatched security vulnerability.

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The IT world is littered with acronyms and one of the latest is CNAPP, standing for Cloud Native Application Protection Platform. If you haven't heard about it already you almost certainly will do soon.

We spoke to Stanimir Markov, CEO at Runecast, about CNAPP, what it is and how it can benefit modern enterprises and their cloud environments.

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Over the last two years, IT teams have come under immense pressure, having to quickly rethink their architecture to support home working, and best prepare for a hybrid-working model in the future. As a result, IT spending has never been higher with a total projected spend of $4.4 trillion USD in 2022, an increase of 4 percent on spend in 2021.

Widely accepted hybrid working practices and a reduced intensity of digital transformation projects have been reflected in IT investment decisions. According to A10 Networks’ recent Enterprise Perspectives research, investment in the cloud is a standout priority. This comes in addition to a growing focus on strengthening cybersecurity strategies with the policies and practices that must accompany the shift to an expanded office network/hybrid working environment.

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More than half (53 percent) of DevOps professionals in a new study say they will consider multicloud architecture to reduce reliance on a specific cloud provider.

The survey of over 700 development professionals and leaders from Techstrong Research finds that the cloud landscape is changing as buyers increasingly put the developer experience on the same footing as core technical and performance capabilities of cloud infrastructure services.

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According to Gartner, Inc., as much as 3 percent of a company’s revenue is spent on paper, printing, and other associated costs. This can easily become inefficient over time, compromised by ad hoc expansion, obsolete or mismatched technology and lapsed servicing contracts. Unmanaged print networks cost businesses hundreds of thousands of pounds or more a year in server space, network bandwidth, IT support, hardware maintenance, toner, ink, and energy.

Alongside the financial costs, poor print performance is a threat to commercial agility, user satisfaction, network security and progressive business policy. An organization may also be exposed to breaches and cyber-attacks, leading to hefty fines and a damaged brand reputation.

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Lingering recession concerns and sky-high inflation have created a challenging economic environment. Last year, increased consumer demand coupled with supply chain snags gave companies incredibly high pricing power. That appears to be coming to an end, however. As the risk for a coming recession grows, many companies are wrestling with logistical issues fueled by geopolitical tensions, war, and the pandemic.

As businesses navigate increasing economic headwinds, leaders should consider how to optimize IT investments and expenditures to ensure business success during this challenging time.

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Developer-first security is the future in the cloud -- the responsibility for cloud security rests with developers and DevOps teams, not IT security.

In the days of the on-premise data center and early cloud adoption, the roles of application developers, infrastructure operations, and security were largely siloed. In the cloud, this division of labor increases the time-to-market for innovation, reduces productivity, and invites unnecessary risk.

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Cybersecurity is a priority for all enterprises. We regularly see news of data breaches across a wide range of industries, and as workforces increasingly move to a hybrid model the issue becomes more acute.

As businesses undergo digital transformation they need to update not only their tools but also their attitude toward keeping systems secure. We spoke to Pravin Kothari, executive vice president, product and strategy at cloud security company Lookout to find out why in a cloud-native world security needs a different approach.

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