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Securing the Open-Source supply chain with Ubuntu Pro on Google Cloud

It’s official: since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, cybercrime has increased by 600%. Among these, ransomware attacks are estimated to cost $6 trillion in 2021 alone. And there were nearly 550,000 ransomware attacks per day in 2020. The question is: are your workloads secure enough? In this blog, we will discuss how to make your Open Source workloads more secure in one second.

Application Modernization With Azure

By running your applications and data on Azure, you get the innovation, flexibility, and affordability you need to more easily modernize and digitally transform your business, backed by the premium security policies and services you expect from Microsoft. Whether your goal is to make better decisions, perform important tasks faster, build apps more efficiently, drive profitability, or anything in between, #Microsoft and #Azure can provide your organization with the right tools to bring #applications and #data together and get the job done.

Announcing the Bitbucket Cloud Migration Assistant

We are excited to announce the launch of the Bitbucket Cloud Migration Assistant (BCMA). The BCMA is an Atlassian-supported app built to help Bitbucket Server customers automate the migration process from Bitbucket Server to Bitbucket Cloud. If you are considering a move to Bitbucket Cloud, this is the easiest way to get started. Download the BCMA from the Atlassian marketplace.

How Power Apps Drives Innovation in App Development?

There are many areas where #powerapps help you to innovate in your app development journey. Watch the video in full to know what are they Over 2.5 million platform developers are now actively building apps, analyzing BI, and automating workflows in low code. 86% of the Fortune 500 are now using Microsoft Power Apps along with thousands of organizations of every size, sector, and geography. The number of monthly active Power Apps users has grown more than 250% since this time last year, and those users are accessing nearly 4 times as many applications in production.

Deploy Friday: E78 Highlights from the international PHP conference

This year's PHP Conference Munich is wrapping up, and we'll be taking a look at the state of PHP, as well as the synopsis of a few of the top sessions, including the keynote, "Coding against climate change – Sustainable software engineering". Speakers Carsten Windler and Stefan Priebsch join me to give a report from the ground, and to discuss the following topics.

What Is AWS Anomaly Detection? (And Is There A Better Option?)

To explain how cost anomaly detection works in AWS, let’s first look at an analogy. Imagine you strategically propagate, cultivate, harvest, and replenish trees for a thriving forest products company. In keeping with your eco-friendly policy, you only harvest the trees with straight and tall trunks. You leave irregularly shaped trees alone. Your company doesn’t harvest trees you won't use.

Will Serverless computing reshape big data and data science?

Serverless development has been turning heads in the market for quite some time now. But it has yet to be accepted by the majority in the development community. With AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and IBM’s Open Whisk, the market is poised to take a different route in this field. Most of these organizations are spending a lot of money to make the market accept this new paradigm using serverless computing.

An Overview of Microsoft Azure Services

Microsoft Azure is the public cloud computing platform by Microsoft which offers software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS). It comprises more than 600 cloud services and supports varied operating systems, databases, and developer tools. And, even better, Splunk On-Call integrates with Microsoft Azure to help on-call teams improve incident response for Azure-based environments.

OpenStack vs AWS: which one is better for you?

OpenStack vs AWS is a discussion that almost every organisation must conduct when adopting a cloud strategy. This is because OpenStack and AWS are undoubtedly some of the most popular cloud technologies in both public and private cloud space. While AWS is the most popular commercial cloud platform, OpenStack remains its most popular open source equivalent. Both have their own pros and cons. But which one is better for you?