Because the cloud is ubiquitous, some companies think that outsourcing their business applications to Amazon, Google, and the like is a breeze. In fact, on the way, treacherous winds blow just off the beaten track.
Red Hat continues to improve the OpenShift Kubernetes distribution.
Application releases can take place several times a day. Terraform helps you roll out virtual machines automatically in your data center or in the cloud, and you adapt the manual only when it changes.
Microsoft continues to integrate Windows Server with the Azure cloud. With Cloud Witness and the RDS Connection Broker, you can operate distributed environments more reliably and efficiently, and SQL databases migrate sensibly into the cloud.
Offers for identity management as a service (IDaaS) are entering the market and promising simplicity. However, many lack functionality, adaptability, and in-depth integration with existing systems. We look at how IT managers should consider IDaaS in their strategy.
Discover the difference between automation and orchestration, and learn to quickly deploy and orchestrate well-defined, scalable business solutions for your organization.
New and updated features in Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) 4, along with seamless provisioning of services between traditional and cloud workloads, could help RHV make up ground on VMware and Hyper-V.
As Prometheus gave fire to mankind, the distributed monitoring software with the same name illuminates the admin's mind in native cloud environments, offering metrics for monitored systems and applications.
Continuously monitoring the performance of applications helps ensure the service quality in multilayered cloud services.
Any OpenStack installation that hosts services and VMs for several customers poses a challenge for the security-conscious admin. Hardening the overall system can turn the porous walls into a fortress – but you'll need more than a little mortar.
