The right managed cloud service provider enables technical leaders to spend more time on their core competency - building products valuable for customers. A properly developed cloud strategy will speed your time to market, increase reach, and market share - all designed to increase your revenue generation capabilities.
Automation tools are key for delivering on the philosophy of DevOps: better application and service delivery at high velocity without sacrificing performance. DevOps practices that leverage the latest automation tools and technologies also ensure that their engineering platforms and processes are in place to facilitate continuous delivery, integration, and improvement without sacrificing quality throughout the development process.
DevSecOps is the philosophy of integrating security practices within the DevOps process. Similar to DevOps, DevSecOps seeks to achieve greater efficiency and productivity through team collaboration, but the DevSecOps approach incorporates security principles.
On July 17 Virginia-based bank Capital One received an email tip that their data had been leaked on code-hosting site Github. An initial investigation found that the data originated from a Capital One server hosted in the cloud that was accessed via a misconfigured firewall.
Amazon Web Services (AWS), a dominant force in the realm of cloud networks, surpasses its competitors with its mature and advanced platform. Their current offering ranks high in reliability, with a competitive track record relative to cloud-market peers, Azure and Google Public Cloud. AWS is not only the oldest of the three but also the largest in terms of scale, with their platform currently offering 200+ services and growing.
The basic lego unit is the 1x1. It’s the smallest block, connects to any other piece and hurts a lot when you step on it with bare feet.
In AWS, the equivalent of the 1x1 is a Virtual Machine (VM). And yes, a lot of the “managed” services like RDS, ELB, and EMR are abstracted to provide the convenience of the service without managing the underlying infrastructure but behind the scenes, they all use virtual machines.
Springtime brings April showers, May flowers...and the California-based AWS Summits! These are designed as free-to-attend events that bring the cloud computing community together to connect, collaborate, and learn about AWS. Stratus10 was proud to host a booth as an onsite sponsor at the AWS Summit in Santa Clara, California, and Anaheim, California. Couldn't make it to the events?
Here are our team's top 3 takeaways:
When will companies learn how to properly protect their data? Starting with Target and Yahoo in 2013, Sony and OPM in 2014, Ashley Madison in 2015, the Democratic National Committee in 2016, Equifax in 2017 and now Marriott and Quora back-to-back to cap off 2018, data breaches are becoming a mainstay in the news. It begs the question: what are so many of these organizations missing?
And if it can happen to companies with big budgets like these, then how can a mid-market or small business be expected to keep up?
