Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

The latest News and Information on Cloud monitoring, security and related technologies.

More Clouds, More Tools, More Problems

Organizations need tools to manage their infrastructure, which today is expanding beyond the data center to include multiple public clouds. In fact, in a recent survey of hybrid cloud decision makers, we found that the vast majority of respondents (88%) have placed more than one-quarter of their workloads in the public cloud, and 44% indicated that they’re running more than half of their workloads in the public cloud.

Ubuntu Pro-based Microsoft SQL Server Instances available for Azure

1st November 2021: Today, Canonical announced support with Microsoft for Microsoft SQL Server with Ubuntu Pro on Microsoft Azure. Canonical has worked with Microsoft to bring a highly performant and fully supported solution for SQL Server to market, based around the Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS operating system.

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.

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.

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?

Create a static version of your blog using WordPress and Gatsby

At FlashDrive.io we use every day and love modern static websites frameworks like Gatsby, Hugo, Jekyll, and more. Gatsby, for its huge community and user base, is the first framework to have a complete build add-on developed on FlashDrive and we love playing with Gatsby every day (some of us are even a little too more invested in the project... we love you E, but get back to work!!). What's also great with Gatsby is that it comes with a large set of plugins to connect with various CMS.

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.