AWS Landing Zone accelerates customer adoption of the cloud by providing a prescriptive set of instructions for deploying an AWS-recommended foundation of interrelated AWS accounts, networks, and core services. AWS Landing Zone provides prescriptive guidance and best practice templates that a customer can deploy into their initial AWS environment with confidence that it will grow […]
GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) Resources Are You Ready?
The new European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) go into effect in a year on May 25 2018 are you ready? What Is GDPR If your initial response is that you are not in Europe and do not need to be concerned about GDPR you might want to step back and review that thought. While […]
WannaCry Exposed Gaping Risk Window between Identifying Vulnerability Risk and Fixing It Press Release
Flexera’s New Software Vulnerability Manager First to Shut Risk Window…for Good When WannaCry hit, the world learned that for two months a patch had been available that would have prevented the problem. But its victims were those that hadn’t yet deployed this patch. As many companies discovered the hard way, there is an unacceptable ‘risk […]
Turbonomic Appoints Alex Hesterberg as Chief Customer Officer
Turbonomic today announced that Alex Hesterberg has joined the company as its first Chief Customer Officer, reporting to Chief Executive Officer, Ben Nye. In the newly created role, Hesterberg will drive the company’s customer-centric business approach to help customers accelerate and activate their hybrid cloud journey, and be responsible for establishing, scaling and executing a […]
Citrix on the Final Piece of the Citrix Security Puzzle
I had the opportunity to spend some time in the expo hall at Citrix Synergy in Orlando this year looking at the different technologies our Citrix Ready Partners are bringing to market. One company called Sentry Bay, and their Armored Client for Citrix made such an impression that I decided to write a blog post about […]
Back to Boston! A recap of the 2017 OpenStack Summit
This year the OpenStack® Summit returned to Boston, Massachusetts. The Summit was held the week after the annual Red Hat® Summit, which was also held in Boston. The combination of the two events, back to back, made for an intense, exciting and extremely busy few weeks. More than 5,000 attendees and 1,000 companies were in […]
New – Managed Device Authentication for Amazon WorkSpaces
Amazon WorkSpaces allows you to access a virtual desktop in the cloud from the web and from a wide variety of desktop and mobile devices. This flexibility makes WorkSpaces ideal for environments where users have the ability to use their existing devices (often known as BYOD, or Bring Your Own Device). In these environments, organizations […]
How Can I Plan for Security, Risk, & Compliance Before Migrating to AWS? – #AWS Video
Learn how the security and compliance work stream for the Migration Readiness & Planning (MRP) program helps customers build a structured approach that will accelerate a customer’s readiness and planning for migrating to AWS. This video is from the fine folks at Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Open Source Kubernetes CIS Benchmark Tool for Security
Also is the First to Implement Distributed Security Auditing for Kubernetes 1.6 Deployments The Center for Internet Security (CIS) recently released the Kubernetes CIS Benchmark for Kubernetes 1.6 security auditing. Many companies planning deployments or already in production will want a simple way to test compliance for the 100+ recommendations in the Kubernetes 1.6 security […]
Microsoft Announces public preview of Apache Kafka on HDInsight with Azure Managed disks
HDInsight set a firm goal of helping enterprises build secure, robust, scalable open source streaming pipelines on Azure. To meet this goal, a few months ago we announced a limited preview of Managed Kafka on Azure HDInsight. The addition of Kafka on HDInsight completes the ingestion piece for scalable open source streaming on Azure. In […]
