Public cloud adoption has soared since the launch of the first commercial cloud two decades ago. Most of us take for granted the countless ways public cloud-related services—social media sites (Instagram), video streaming services (Netflix), web-based email applications (Gmail), and more—permeate our lives. In the business sphere, both large enterprises and small startups depend on […]

Cloud FinOps goes beyond simply saving money on cloud costs; it’s a comprehensive strategy to unlock the full business value of cloud operations. It fosters financial accountability for cloud spending across all organizational levels, promotes the identification and elimination of unnecessary expenses, and encourages a data-driven approach to inform cloud strategy decisions. Ultimately, FinOps helps […]

Integration is essential to every business. As businesses consider the core of their IT infrastructure, their focus might be on their data and applications. But without integration, the data would be locked into siloes; and the applications would be isolated and overloaded with complexity as fragile, tightly coupled connections were added to allow applications to […]

Data virtualization is a technology that allows for the integration of data from various sources, including databases, big data repositories, and cloud storage, into a single, logical view. This approach enables organizations to access and manage their data without needing to physically consolidate it, facilitating real-time data analytics and decision-making. These platforms offer various features […]

In the realm of digital technology, proxies emerge as critical tools, primarily enhancing security, enabling efficient load balancing, and fortifying privacy protection. They act as a shield, hiding users’ IP addresses, thus safeguarding their online identities and sensitive data from potential threats. By distributing incoming requests across multiple servers, proxies ensure no single server bears […]

New developments in renewable energy are making headlines and inspiring hope in communities worldwide, from a remote Arctic village working to harness solar and wind power under challenging conditions to a U.S. Air Force base planning an advanced, utility-scale geothermal power system. As much of the world grapples with mitigating the effects of climate change […]

Storage, storage, storage! Last week, we celebrated 18 years of innovation on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) at AWS Pi Day 2024. Amazon S3 mascot Buckets joined the celebrations and had a ton of fun! The 4-hour live stream was packed with puns, pie recipes powered by PartyRock, demos, code, and discussions about generative […]

AI continues to become more weaponized, with nation-state attackers and cybercrime gangs experimenting with LLMs and gen AI-based attack tradecraft. The age of weaponized LLMs is here. At the same time, multi-cloud-based infrastructures more businesses rely on are under attack. Exfiltrating any identity data available from endpoints and then traversing a network to gain more […]

A large US-based healthcare company recently engaged with IBM® to accelerate their cloud adoption with consistent and predictable outcomes. This collaboration enhanced their confidence to navigate app modernization across various applications and landing zones for both hybrid cloud and platform-native modernization. As a healthcare company, this client had an obligation to provide safe, reliable, time-sensitive, […]

Starting today, you can use InfluxDB as a database engine in Amazon Timestream. This support makes it easy for you to run near real-time time-series applications using InfluxDB and open source APIs, including open source Telegraf agents that collect time-series observations. Now you have two database engines to choose in Timestream: Timestream for LiveAnalytics and […]