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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO Business Intelligence

IT leaders at the 60-year-old fleet management firm determined that cloud could support its rapid growth without the challenges of maintaining data centers. Instead, his team employed DevOps practices to rearchitect applications to take advantage of native cloud capabilities. How will we balance security, agility, and usability?

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How to ensure security in a cloud migration

CIO Business Intelligence

The “aware” are mature and focus on #DevOps and integrated ways to deploy secure capabilities (like programmatically deploying firewall rules in #cloud). Integrate on-premise data center to #cloud, consider using VPN, direct connect, or dedicated network. Yes but it’s a tale of two cities.

Cloud 119
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Technology Short Take #63

Scott Lowe

In any case, here’s another collection of links and articles from around the Net on the major data center technology areas. At DevOps Networking Forum 2016, I had the opportunity to share a presentation on some Linux networking options. I’ll try to correct that for the next one. Have fun reading! Networking. Servers/Hardware.

Vmware 60
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Technology Short Take #66

Scott Lowe

In this post you’ll find a collection of links to articles about the major data center technologies. In the event you’re interested in an idea of how much latency the use of in-kernel hypervisor firewalling (such as that offered by VMware NSX) adds, have a look at this article by Sean Howard. Networking. Servers/Hardware.

Vmware 60
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Technology Short Take #31

Scott Lowe

Welcome to Technology Short Take #31, my irregularly published series that takes a look at links, posts, articles, and thoughts from around the web related to core data center technologies. Greg Ferro examines a potential SDN use case (an OpenFlow use case) in the form of enterprise firewall migrations. Networking.

Storage 108
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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Incident Response in the Cloud

ForAllSecure

And then you go and help the customer on site because the data is on site and you need to actually kind of get hands on to the point we used to do imaging in big data centers and stuff and it take hours because terabytes of data and you'd have people sleeping in the data center, like which is crazy.

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Technology Short Take #48

Scott Lowe

Matt Oswalt recently wrapped up his 3-part “DevOps for Networking” series. The “gotcha” is that these software stacks haven’t been written yet, so the idea of repurposing hardware from switch to firewall to load balancer is still a bit of a unicorn. Networking. However, it’s at least possible with whitebox networking gear.