NetApp released the “2023 Cloud Complexity Report” with a focus on the shifting demands of a multi-cloud environment. Some of the key findings of the report: 98% of global tech executives report their business has been impacted by the increasing complexity of data across the cloud Tech executives across the board consistently highlight a wide…Read…

Cloud native is a way to build and run applications taking full advantage of cloud computing technologies. It involves building an application based on a collection of microservices deployed independently and scaled horizontally to meet demand. This provides more flexibility as developers can modify certain services as needed, rather than replacing the entire application. It…Read…

In April, the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023 held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, was one of the largest open-source conferences ever, with over 12,000 attendees. Together with valuable insights, the event confirmed once again that Kubernetes is the centre of cloud-native computing. An interesting article on Silverlinings from Steven Vaughan Nichols describes 5 highlights from…Read…

With a post on the Azure blog, Microsoft announced that ChatGPT is now available in preview in Azure OpenAI Service. GPT-3.5 will be included in the set of AI models available (Dall-E 2, Codex, etc.) to help customers innovate in new ways and in different scenarios with the power of Artificial Intelligence such as generating…Read…

For the past eight years, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation has utilised its pivotal role in the cloud-native community to survey the technology landscape, comprehend its workings, and cater better to the users of open-source cloud-native technologies. The worldwide survey has been conducted from June to September 2022, reaching 2,063 participants. The survey was conducted…Read…

The “Cloud and Threat Report” for 2022 from Netskope Threat Labs highlights a cloud malware delivery increase in cloud environments, with Microsoft OneDrive leading the charts as the origin of the majority of cloud malware downloads, together with phishing, scams, credit card skimmers, exploit kits, and other malicious web content, emphasizing the importance of inspecting…Read…

Cloud repatriation refers to the process of moving data and applications back to traditional, on-premises systems from a public cloud provider. This trend is usually driven by the high costs and complexity of cloud computing, as many enterprises have found that their cloud bills are higher than expected. This is often due to inefficiencies in…Read…

Cloudification offers many great opportunities, is the way to go, but requires some cybersecurity consideratoins. Learn from some of the mistakes and incidents that happened in the previous years : 1. failing to implement “any” security measures; 2. misconfiguration of Azure buckets; 3. management dashboard publicly available over the internet; 4. compromised employee accounts (to…Read…

According to the report “The State of Zero Trust Transformation 2023” by cloud security firm Zscaler, more than 90% of IT leaders who have started migrating to the cloud have implemented or are planning to implement a zero-trust security architecture. This approach, which is based on the principle that no user, device, or application should…Read…