Palo Alto Networks released research showing how vulnerabilities in the development of cloud infrastructure are creating significant security risks.The Unit 42 Cloud Threat Report: Spring 2020 investigates why cloud misconfigurations happen so frequently. It finds that as organizations move to[...]
As we look ahead to this year and beyond, we can expect to see an explosion in numbers—think billions—with respect to 5G networks connecting Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The IoT will be a system of many millions of different types of devices for a multitude of applications. Such devices will[...]
Microsoft is the most popular supplier of public cloud services and is continuing to gain on AWS, according to research. What's more, the tech giant's cloud platform, Azure, is expected to dominate the market over the next three years. This is according to a survey of over 100 IT executives from[...]
F5 has announced the acquisition of Shape, a company with products and services in the antifraud and abuse category. According to the companies, F5 will pay approximately $1 billion for the privately held Shape.In a blog post to employees, F5 CEO François Locoh-Donou wrote that Shape is currently[...]
Containerization is rapidly becoming a standard for managing applications in large production environments. Containerization allows our development teams to move fast, deploy software efficiently, and operate at an unprecedented scale. However, managing containers can be a time-consuming task.[...]
Vendor revenue in the worldwide server market declined 6.7% year over year to $22.0 billion during the third quarter of 2019 (3Q19), according to IDC. Worldwide server shipments declined 3.0% year over year to just under 3.1 million units in 3Q19.In terms of server class, volume server revenue was[...]
It is estimated that the global SaaS and IaaS industry will be worth over $130 billion by next year. In the wake of the success of companies such as Salesforce, the industry has now evolved to the point where vendors and suppliers manage their own software and no installation is required (software[...]
Enterprises plan to aggressively shift investment to hybrid cloud architectures, with respondents reporting steady and substantial hybrid deployment plans over the next five years, according to a Nutanix survey.The vast majority of 2019 survey respondents (85%) selected hybrid cloud as their ideal[...]
The software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) is a technology for configuring and implementing an enterprise WAN — based on software-defined networking (SDN) — to effectively route traffic to remote locations such as branch offices. SD-WAN technology derives significant flexibility and agility[...]
