Articles about Hybrid Cloud

Hybrid cloud infrastructure is under mounting strain from the growing influence of artificial intelligence, according to a new report.

The study, from observability specialist Gigamon, of over 1,000 global security and IT leaders, shows breach rates have surged to 55 percent during the past year, representing a 17 percent year-on-year rise, with AI-generated attacks emerging as a key driver of this growth.

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As AI reshapes business operations, companies are facing new challenges around cost uncertainty, security, and data integrity. The rise of hybrid cloud strategies -- combining private clouds with public infrastructure -- is becoming a key approach to addressing these concerns.

While enterprises focus on cost control, safeguarding sensitive corporate data, and preventing AI-driven data leakage, they are also trying to leverage LLMs to exploit data in the public cloud while retaining sensitive data in private clouds that they control.

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Until recently, many organizations’ ‘cloud-first’ strategies in reality meant ‘cloud-only’ (and more specifically, public cloud). Indeed, it wasn’t really a strategy, rather more an aspiration.

However, fast forward to today and many organizations are realizing that public cloud providers can’t fully meet all their needs and priorities. In fact, most organizations will never be fully on the public cloud for a number of reasons:

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As more organizations look to deploy AI and LLMs across their operations to drive a competitive edge, ensuring the data being used to power these innovations is of high enough quality is becoming business critical. To give these AI and LLM innovations the best chance of success, many organizations are turning to hybrid cloud infrastructures, making use of both on-premises and cloud to ensure they can tap into valuable data.

But hybrid cloud infrastructure comes with its own set of challenges, particularly when it comes to data governance. Inherently, a hybrid infrastructure allows data to move between environments, which can make that data vulnerable to not only security risks but also growing regulatory compliance considerations. With so many regulations surrounding data firmly in place, such as the EU’s GDPR and the US HIPAA, compliance is crucial to business operations. GDPR fines alone can reach 2 percent of global turnover. A penalty of this magnitude would have a huge impact on the entire organization.

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A new survey of over 1,000 Security and IT leaders across Australia, France, Germany, Singapore, UK, and the USA, shows a decline in detection and response capabilities year-on-year.

The Hybrid Cloud Security Report from Gigamon shows that as hybrid cloud environments grow in complexity and threat actors launch a barrage of concealed attacks, 65 percent of respondents believe their existing security tooling cannot effectively detect breaches.

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AlmaLinux 9.4 is officially available for download here. Closely aligned with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.4, it reinforces its status as a robust, open-source enterprise Linux solution. This latest version is built directly from RHEL's openly available source code and was released swiftly following RHEL 9.4, showcasing the community's ability to deliver prompt updates.

AlmaLinux 9.4 is enhanced with significant updates across software environments and development tools. The release includes updated module streams for popular programming languages and web technologies:

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Cloud has been a cornerstone of the computing industry for many years. As it enters its third decade in 2024, economic pressures, anti-monopoly moves and more mean things will look different for hyperscale providers.

We spoke to Amol Dalvi, VP of Product of Nerdio, to discuss what we can expect to see over the next 10 years.

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IBM is launching a new version of its LinuxONE system, engineered to deliver cybersecurity, resiliency, scalability and AI inferencing for hybrid cloud environments, and making the technology more accessible for smaller and medium businesses.

IBM LinuxONE 4 Express is a pre-configured rack mount system designed to extend IBM LinuxONE to startups and small and medium sized businesses and within new data center environments.

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The IT and cloud computing landscape has grown and evolved in 2023, and it’s poised to continue developing in 2024. Companies worldwide are actively adapting to the dynamics of a post-pandemic world. In this pursuit of resilience and innovation, we anticipate the emergence of four key trends that will shape the new year. These trends encompass technological advancements and shifting IT paradigms regarding spending, loyalty and governance.

Here are four trends we will likely see in the new year.

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A new study of over 800 IT professionals across the US, UK and Germany finds that 72 percent of mid-size companies report a lack of cloud management skills as being a barrier to their growth.

The study from Parallels finds 64 percent of respondents have already implemented a hybrid approach, and 38 percent of all respondents plan to further embrace a hybrid cloud approach in the next year.

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New research from hybrid data company Cloudera reveals that organizations currently estimate they are not using 33 percent of their data effectively.

The survey 850 IT decision makers (ITDMs) across the EMEA region shows 72 percent of respondents agree that having data sitting across different cloud and on-premises environments makes it complex to extract value from all the data in their organization.

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New survey findings from Lookout show that 70 percent of IT leaders in the financial services sector report a significant increase in data breaches compared to previous years.

Nearly half of organizations (47 percent) are struggling with the heightened difficulty of detecting and mitigating threats, while about a fifth (18 percent) face a significant lack of control over their applications and data.

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Businesses of all sizes have had to accelerate digitization across the entire business in recent years, as the adoption of hybrid working practices forces them to make changes to ensure operational continuity. By digitizing processes and embracing the cloud, businesses have delivered faster, more flexible, and more resilient services for employees and customers.

The rate of cloud adoption shows no signs of relenting. Gartner forecasts worldwide public cloud end-user spending to reach nearly $600 billion in 2023. This growth presents a multitude of opportunities, but the compounded cyber risk that comes with a widening digital footprint presents IT and security teams with an immense challenge.

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Hybrid cloud and hybrid work have changed where and how we access systems, challenging organizations to find ways to secure the enterprise while delivering the best user experience.

While cloud-delivered Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) solutions are now widely adopted to secure remote work, they don't deliver the application performance and inline policy enforcement needed for workers at the office.

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Cloud has completely changed how contemporary businesses operate. It gives organizations a scalable means of managing their infrastructure, applications, and data. Between its flexibility and Pay as You Go (PAYG) options, Cloud provides substantially more configuration and design options than traditional infrastructure. As a result, businesses are adopting cloud services more and more frequently, giving them access to new tools and technologies, while also yielding efficiency improvements for their operations and procedures.

According to some projections, the worldwide cloud services industry will be worth about $600 billion by 2023, generating a rapidly expanding need for hybrid and multi-cloud solutions. Gartner expects that cloud system infrastructure services will be the second-biggest, but fastest-growing, cloud expenditure market category in 2023. As illustrated by the projected increase, hybrid and multi-cloud computing is becoming the new normal for many organizations -- providing them with the scalability benefits of public cloud -- while also delivering the flexibility and control inherent in private cloud computing and traditional server infrastructure.

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