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How Sumo Logic monitors unit economics to improve cloud cost-efficiency

An often overlooked aspect of a company’s journey to the cloud is cost visibility. While the single number delivered by the cloud provider on a monthly invoice is straightforward, understanding where this number comes from is often more tricky. Fortunately, this task can be facilitated through the usage of various cost monitoring tools available on the market, coming from both third-party companies and the cloud providers themselves.

CIS-Harden your Ubuntu in Google Cloud

CIS Benchmarks are best practices for the secure configuration of a target system. The Center for Internet Security, Inc. (CIS®) is the authority backing CIS Benchmarks. Ubuntu Pro is entitled to be CIS compliant and packaged with CIS toolings from Canonical. Let’s SSH into your Ubuntu Pro virtual machine. If you haven’t yet upgrade your Ubuntu LTS to Ubuntu Pro, please follow this tutorial.

Cloud Computing; Basic Walk-through

Cloud computing is the on demand delivery of IT solutions. Instead of investing capital in buying, owning, and maintaining physical servers and data centers, cloud computing enable the organizations to access the services such as, computing, storages, and databases, whenever required from the desired cloud providers. Now, let us move ahead and have a look at some of the key benefits of cloud computing.

Leaning on Technology in The New Noisy: Managing Cloud, Change and Risk

Your company’s “digital transformation” will be driven by new application designs and methods, new technology stacks, and new processes. To master it, and delivering next generation services through it, massively complex sets of signals and data need to be leveraged, processed, and acted on. Developers need integrated data and insights through that noise, while being able to leverage their tools of choice. All of this must be managed, even in spite of massive rates of change and innovation.

Serverless Cost Optimization: 4 Ways To Lower Your Costs

Serverless services save time. When you switch to serverless architecture, you offload redundant cloud management activities to your cloud provider and gain more time to focus on the most important parts of your business — development and innovation. Even better, you only pay for what you use, so you don’t have to worry about committing to reserved instances or committing to a savings plan. But there’s a catch.

Strengthen Your Cloud Ops with Preventive Healing

The cloud is driving enterprise digital transformation. Gartner predicts that by 2026, public cloud spending will exceed 45% of all enterprise IT spending, a 2.5x growth from 2021. Enterprises globally are accelerating application modernization, embracing the cloud. This is giving rise to a few key trends. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) adoption is on the rise. So, organizations are using applications whose implementation/infrastructure they have little or no control over.

Can A Cloud Managed Service Provider Turn Your Digital Transformation Dream Into A Reality?

The cloud has changed the world of IT — including IT services. In particular, it has enabled companies to dramatically decrease the amount of infrastructure they manage on-premises — reducing their need to use outside IT services to help them purchase, set up and maintain this infrastructure.

Deploy Friday: E79 The Long and Winding Road towards security compliance

Platform.sh has worked hard to be the most secure, compliant, and dependable business partner possible for our customers. To that end, we're able to provide data processing agreements (DPAs) for European GDPR, German BDSG, Canadian PIPEDA, and the Australian Privacy Act. We have been successfully audited for SOC 3 Type 2 and PCI DSS Level 1 compliance, and we've got more important acronyms in the works.

Innovations in cloud network security

Learn about innovations in cloud network security over a global network. This includes Google Cloud innovations released this year from DDoS and Web Application Firewall (WAF), Google Cloud Armor, Google Cloud firewalls, and Google Cloud IDS - the newest network based intrusion detection solution.

Migrate and Modernize: How to Upgrade Your DevOps as You Move to the Cloud

Understand how to transform your IT with AWS infrastructure and JFrog DevOps. Join our webinar to learn how JFrog and AWS can help you transform your DevOps and infrastructure to a more nimble and secure environment. In this webinar, you will gain insight on the strategies and best practices to overcome the challenges of legacy infrastructure and older application build and deployment approaches. In this webinar you will discover.