Category: Internet

August 4, 2023

We’ve long been comparing and contrasting cloud-based infrastructure with the infrastructure sold by traditional enterprise hardware and software players. However, some further information is starting to appear. The Bureau of Labor Statistics Producer Price Index reported a 3.9% month-over-month decline […]

August 2, 2023

Migration to the cloud is seen as a way to simplify IT, but legacy systems may not allow for simple lift-and-shift cloud migration. Mark Kedgley of Netwrix discusses why it’s important to consider private vs public cloud and the implications […]

July 31, 2023

Container-as-a-service (CaaS) is a cloud service that manages, hosts, deploys, and scales containers and applications through APIs, virtualization, or portals. This service is used to develop and manage containers within the IT infrastructure operating in a hybrid or multi-cloud environment. […]

July 25, 2023

If you’re considering a Home Internet plan from Verizon, you’ll have to act fast if you want to avoid paying more for the service. Apparently, the Big Red plans to increase Home Internet plans tomorrow, July 26, and the price […]

July 21, 2023

I like to observe patterns that emerge around me, certainly where technology is involved. The rise of the Internet has pushed many applications from distributed to centralized. Back in the 1990s, we were all evolving from mainframes to local area […]

July 18, 2023

Value refers to the worth or usefulness that something holds for individuals or organizations. It is subjective and can vary from person to person, or business to business, or from one context to another. Value can be seen as the […]

July 11, 2023

If you’ve explored the advantages of your cloud computing platforms, you’ve likely come across the autoscaling features. Although these differ for each provider, the idea is that they will detect if you need more memory, CPUs, or storage and automatically […]

July 5, 2023

Since the Watson demonstration on the Jeopardy quiz show, IBM has attempted to position itself as a dominant player in the cloud and artificial intelligence business. The company has not achieved success in either field, and now Big Blue is […]

June 30, 2023

If you are at least a semi-tech-savvy internet user, odds are high that you are either using an ad block in YouTube, or you are paying for the Premium tier, which has no ads. And Google is looking for ways […]

June 27, 2023

The studies are coming fast these days. Thales Global Cloud Security Study for 2022 found that during the past 12 months, 45% of businesses have experienced a cloud data breach or failed to perform audits. (It would have been nice […]

June 26, 2023

President Joe Biden is getting closer to distributing more than $40 billion in funding to support broadband expansion nationwide as part of his administration’s goal to connect all Americans to high-speed internet by 2030. The funding, authorized in Biden’s 2021 […]

June 26, 2023

The White House on Monday announced plans to spend as much as $42 billion on making internet access universal in the country by 2030, according to a report by Reuters. This initiative is part of President Joe Biden’s new economic […]

June 23, 2023

YouTube wants to make it easier to dub your videos in other languages by giving you some help with AI. The company announced Thursday at VidCon that it’s bringing over the team from Aloud, an AI-powered dubbing service from Google’s […]

June 20, 2023

I understand the benefits of generative AI; my background is in artificial intelligence development and integration with enterprises and cloud architectures. However, I also know that where there are many benefits, there are downsides that must be considered simultaneously. Generative […]

June 16, 2023

According to a report sponsored by SAS titled “A Silver Lining from Every Cloud,” most decision-makers at enterprises in the United Kingdom and Ireland face challenges from having data in multiple clouds (aka multicloud). The report focuses on the difficulties […]

June 12, 2023

Some devops teams wait to optimize their applications for cost considerations until reports and invoices show higher-than-expected charges, or when cloud costs scale faster than expected. Others carefully consider the cost to run and scale infrastructure during a project’s design […]

June 9, 2023

Huawei could be banned from developing critical 5G network infrastructure in the European Union (EU) as soon as next year, the Financial Times (FT) reported earlier this week. According to the publication, Brussels is discussing the option of banning not […]

June 8, 2023

Many organizations are starting out on their Kubernetes and container journey, while others are encountering complexity issues as they scale out their deployments. Containerized applications bring many benefits, but also introduce new types of security challenges. Uptycs reduces risk for […]

June 2, 2023

Even though many IT budgets are down, and belt tightening seems to be the clear trend, next year many enterprises are preparing for a rush to generative AI that they are not ready to pay for. It’s time to start […]

May 30, 2023

It’s late on a Friday. You get a call from your CIO that data has been removed from XYZ public cloud server, and they need it back ASAP. It gets worse. First, there is no current backup copy of the […]