Paessler PRTG monitoring increases relevance by cloud and enterprise focus
At Paessler, the development of a monitoring tool with a variety of use cases is in full swing. Additional focus on the cloud, enterprises and industries shows PRTG is working on further relevance.
Paessler exists 25 years this year and in that time it has made network monitoring its specialty. ... Read more
‘Zero trust high on agenda due to cloud, potential untapped’
The security world has been under the spell of zero trust for some time. Zscaler research now confirms that organizations also see the framework as an ideal tool for securing users, workloads and devices. Cloud migration contributes to this: 91 percent of the organizations have implemented or are i... Read more
ScaleFlux: Computational storage, mainstream is no daydream
Storage needs a makeover. Often thought of as back-office donkey/grunt work, we all recognise the need and importance of storage, but not many of us want to focus on it as a computing discipline in and of itself. Which is wrong, obviously.
Notwithstanding the fact that one Australian tech news p... Read more
HYCU bridges clouds, bridge to SaaS under construction?
Recently in Silicon Valley, we were guests of HYCU, a company generally characterized as yet another backup vendor. During HYCU's presentation, the goal was clear: to convince us that the company is more than a backup vendor. HYCU bridges the gap between different clouds for data protection, disast... Read more
Software’s post-pandemic recessionary lag factor
Knowledge is power. But further than any mere level of learning by rote understanding, we use the term ‘savvy’ to denote a particular level of practical knowledge and ability.
Coming out of the post-pandemic period of preparation for the ensuing recession will (arguably) require more savvine... Read more
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022: Eight ‘bits’ of cloud-native
Eight years ago, at GOTO Berlin, John Wilkes announced the first release of Kubernetes.
It was like giving the flux capacitor to datacentre platform teams - the cluster management kernel that powers Google's internal Borg system ("Borg for the rest of us", was a common refrain at that time) and ... Read more
OpenStack community releases Zed, even more emphasis on security and hardware enablement
Zed consists of 15,500 changes, by 710 contributors from 140 organizations across 44 countries. A successor to the Yoga version released earlier this year, Zed again sees the necessary emphasis on hardware enablement. In addition, security is also an important focus area.
With Zed, OpenStack has... Read more
Safe airstreams, Confluent climbs higher with data governance control
Information is accelerating. From the top-tier information services that we use on our desktop and mobile applications every day, through the middle layers that form the interconnecting fabric of the web and the cloud… and downwards to the backend base substrate operations systems that underpin e... Read more
‘Microsoft, Google, and AWS own 72 percent of European cloud spending’
A report by Synergy Research Group indicates that six US giants are ruling the European cloud market. Nearly three-quarters of customers' spending is owned by Google, Microsoft and AWS.
Synergy's numbers highlight that the European cloud market is almost five times as prominent as it was in 2017... Read more
50 percent of your data will soon come from the Edge
Managing infrastructure is a headache for more and more companies. In addition to their own data center, there are often multiple clouds and edge locations in use. The platforms differ from one another. It takes a lot of expertise to manage it all. Finding the right people is also difficult, which ... Read more