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6 days ago | 
itprotoday.com | Christopher Tozzi
Not all cloud-native applications run in the cloud, and not all apps that run in the cloud are cloud-native. That, in a nutshell, captures part of the difference between cloud applications and cloud-native applications. But it only scratches the surface.
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1 week ago | 
datacenterknowledge.com | Christopher Tozzi
By many measures, there has never been a better time to invest in data centers. AI has spawned tremendous interest in expanding data center capacity. Hyperscalers are dumping billions of dollars into data center projects. Data center companies like Digital Realty and Equinix are posting solid revenue numbers. Yet, there is an argument to be made that the financial outlook for the data center industry is not as rosy as it may seem, at least over the short-to-medium term.
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1 week ago | 
datacenterknowledge.com | Christopher Tozzi
Measuring most types of return on investment (ROI) is relatively straightforward: You compare the cost of what you spent to the value of what you gained in return. However, calculating cybersecurity ROI presents a big challenge: It's not always clear how much value cybersecurity investments create because when the investments are effective, nothing happens — meaning no security breaches occur. And you can't easily quantify the monetary value of nothing.
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1 week ago | 
itprotoday.com | Christopher Tozzi
While cybersecurity ROI is notoriously tricky to quantify, organizations can still estimate its value through these three approaches. Measuring most types of return on investment (ROI) is relatively straightforward: You compare the cost of what you spent to the value of what you gained in return.
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2 weeks ago | 
itprotoday.com | Christopher Tozzi
Most conversations about cloud security focus on techniques that can help secure almost any type of cloud service — such as using Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies to restrict access or configuring cloud networks to mitigate risks. But there's another way to approach cloud security: by choosing the most secure type of cloud services for deploying workloads.
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2 weeks ago | 
datacenterknowledge.com | Christopher Tozzi
Tracking and managing all the components inside data centers can be a daunting task, which is why data center asset management software is a key tool for operators. While commercial solutions exist for data center asset management, many open source tools have also been designed for this purpose. This is an advantage for businesses that want to avoid paying for data center management software since most of these offerings are free.
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2 weeks ago | 
itprotoday.com | Christopher Tozzi
The most frequently cited benefits of low-code/no-code application development platforms are that they speed up the development process and empower users with limited coding skills to build applications. But should security be added to the list of low-code/no-code platform advantages? That depends on how you choose to think about the security implications of low-code/no-code development. In some respects, these platforms result in applications that are more secure.
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3 weeks ago | 
itprotoday.com | Christopher Tozzi
Open source software is typically free to download and use. But it's not always free to create. Although many open source developers work for free, some are paid — and even at projects where code contributions come entirely from volunteers, there are often ancillary costs, such as paying for the infrastructure that hosts open source code repositories and the network bandwidth necessary to distribute code. This begs the question: Who, exactly, pays to create open source software?
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4 weeks ago | 
itprotoday.com | Christopher Tozzi
If you're new to Kubernetes, you might assume that the meaning of Kubernetes deployment is self-evident and refers to the deployment of any type of workload within a Kubernetes cluster. In fact, though, deployment has a more specific definition within Kubernetes, the open source container orchestrator — and understanding precisely what a deployment is in this context is a step toward understanding how to use Kubernetes itself to maximum effect.
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1 month ago | 
itprotoday.com | Christopher Tozzi
If you want to implement platform engineering, you need a type software solution, known as an Internal Developer Platform (IDP), that developers can leverage to access pre-built tools, environments, and configurations. However, given that platform engineering remains a relatively novel idea, finding an IDP can be challenging.
