Cloud Services

If you are in charge of IT infrastructure for a cloud provider, here are the areas to focus IT resources on to deal with the pandemic-induced challenges. Source: COVID-19: Five Recommendations for Cloud-Provider IT Leaders | Data Center Knowledge

Organizations can alleviate the continuing IT shortage by working more effectively with their IT staff and by integrating new technologies that can help them fast track new applications and achieve digital transformation goals. Source: No Excuses: Your Lean IT Staff Can Get Digital Transformation Done | Network Computing

ExpressRoute. A new peering service for enterprise-grade connections over the public internet. A Virtual WAN. A Private Link service that connects to Azure data and storage services on your own private IP address over Microsoft’s backbone network. An Application Gateway Ingress Controller for Azure Kubernetes Service. Why are there so many ways to connect to […]

In the coming year, more application services across every operational domain will emit the telemetry necessary to unlock the business value of data. Source: App Services Will Help Unlock the Value of Data | IT Infrastructure Advice, Discussion, Community – Network Computing

If putting unencrypted data up in a public cloud is like leaving your house unlocked, keeping encrypted data and the encryption keys in the same cloud could be akin to leaving a copy of your housekey under your doormat. Source: Encryption Key Management for Public Cloud: The Basics

IT leaders must take action to ensure their organizations are set up to realize the benefits of infrastructure and operations automation. Source: The Promise of IT Automation (And What You Should Do About It) | Network Computing

Big data and the Internet of Things are among the market and technology trends that have altered the distributed computing landscape. Whereas pockets of network closets traditionally hosted communications switches in office buildings, now, more powerful but compact micro data centers are filling those spaces. And they’re making appearances in retail locations, manufacturing sites, warehouses, […]

As 5G continues to roll out, it will enable new areas of innovation that lets us rethink the way large data center networks operate. Source: New 5G Capabilities in 2020 will Shift Data Center Pivot Points | Network Computing

AI-based storage enables organizations to analyze data quickly and intelligently, delivering insights almost instantaneously. Source: AI-Based Storage: A Natural and Increasingly Important Combination | Data Center Knowledge

Although servers are crunching six times as much data as in 2010, energy consumption has stayed relatively flat, thanks to improved hardware efficiency. Source: Data Centers Aren’t Devouring the Planet’s Electricity—Yet | WIRED