Cloud Computing

Extract, transform, and load (ETL) software is the tool or tools needed to transfer data from multiple sources to a unified repository, such as a data warehouse or data lake. ETL tools have been in use for almost five decades, allowing organizations to analyze, develop, and act on data continually. Several tenured enterprise vendors for database management, analytics, and business intelligence continue to lead the...

Edge computing networks prioritize distributed infrastructure and micro data centers that bring processing and storage of digital resources to global end-users. But how should organizations at large approach edge network deployment? While the last decade has seen the widespread adoption of cloud computing — which relies on centrally hosted and managed data centers — edge computing provides enterprise organizations with the methods needed to keep...

Cloud computing security, or cloud security, is a set of policies and technologies to protect the services and resources of the cloud computing system. Cloud security is a subdomain of cybersecurity, and includes processes to protect services, applications, data, virtualized IP, and the related infrastructure of cloud computing systems. Virtualized environments, including virtual machines (VMs) and containers, present unique risks to cloud security. Here, we...

Containerization is the solution to the roadblocks posed by traditional virtualization. Since their inception, virtual machines (VMs) have enabled organizations to do more with less. A single physical device can contain several isolated, virtual environments through a hypervisor, and the benefits include reduced overhead, convenient mobility, and scalability. Sounds great – but there’s one problem. Virtual machines are heavy units. Because a significant appeal of virtualization...

Yes, data centers and server rooms are changing. The explosion of cloud infrastructure solutions enabled organizations to adopt large virtual workloads while innovative server technology offers more in less space. Though effective in causing the downward trend we've seen in recent years, these trends hardly mean the end of on-premises infrastructures. Through several years of trial-and-error, industry thought leaders are clear: the future of enterprise...

Zero trust as a security architecture can and should be applied to databases and applications. Read more to learn how.

Any company that’s delayed introducing cloud-based software into their infrastructure needs to consider leveraging these new technologies to reap all the benefits cloud computing has to offer. The time of physical servers is quickly fading in lieu of cloud-based software services, also known as software-as-a-service (SaaS), that offer improved security, reliability, scalability, and availability. This list of 10 cloud-based software companies will help you manage...

The news that Californian public cloud storage service provider Nirvanix is shutting down operations has sent shockwaves through the industry. For customers of the public cloud provider the situation is grim indeed — they have until October 15th to organize and carry out the complex task of getting their data off Nirvanix's cloud storage servers and onto their own or someone else's. "We are dedicating the...