Good read: The on-premises empire strikes back at AWS
Anybody who can read a financial report knows they are paying too much for compute, storage, networking, and software at Amazon Web Services. It is as obvious as the sun at noon. And it is also obvious – and increasingly so – that the retailing and media businesses at Amazon are as addicted to the AWS profits and the free compute capacity it gives to the corporate Amazon parent as IBM has ever been addicted to the high price of its vaunted mainframe platforms.
Good read: These Dutch cloud companies take on the reigning tech giants (Dutch article)
For years, Europe has been yearning for a European cloud alternative to the platforms of such reigning tech giants as Amazon, Microsoft, IBM and Google. One in three IT managers is even considering switching to a European alternative. AG Connect spoke with two Dutch cloud providers looking to break the power of big tech.
whitesky.cloud joins the battle against the big tech giants.
Good read: Carrefour Belgium: leading our move to cloud!
With 99,7% of its IT landscape moved to Google’s Cloud Platform, Belgium is the absolute frontrunner within the Carrefour Group when it concerns cloud adoption.
Good read: AV-Comparatives: Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud earns 100% detection rate, zero false-positives
Cloud technology has expanded the attack surface well beyond the confines of the traditional network. Today, cloud security is not only protecting a handful of resources, rather it is maintaining complete visibility over what third-party services and applications are processing or storing sensitive information and developing apps with minimal code issues.
Good read: 80% of organizations experienced a cloud security breach last year
Cloud technology has expanded the attack surface well beyond the confines of the traditional network. Today, cloud security is not only protecting a handful of resources, rather it is maintaining complete visibility over what third-party services and applications are processing or storing sensitive information and developing apps with minimal code issues.
Good read: US Cloud Act has major impact on European businesses and cloud providers (Dutch article)
The American Cloud Act has a great impact on European companies and cloud providers, even if they are not based in the US. To avoid hassle, affected cloud companies should always process data through a non-US company. Interesting Dutch article from Computable.
Good read: Best Practices for Remote Desktop Services (RDS) Licensing
Source: Octopus Cloud
The two most underreported products in Microsoft SPLA are SQL and RDS. SQL is a complicated beast, but RDS? You simply license every user that has access to the software, how hard is that? In this article, we will review RDS licensing and how to avoid getting caught off guard in case of an audit.
Good read: Successful Change Management for Service Providers in Five Steps (Dutch)
The digital transformation is disrupting traditional structures and patterns throughout society. Think of the way we listen to and watch our favourite music, films and television, and book holidays or do our banking. For many service providers, this transition represents the next step in their organisational maturity and forces companies to change; those who do not transform lose out to new technology and modern ways of working, and thus miss out on opportunities.
This is a great article in Dutch by Insight.
Good read: Software needs to make way for containerization and Kubernetes
Interesting article about containerization. Gartner expects that by 2023 70% of global organisations will be running more than two containerization applications. Whitesky supports Kubernetes and will launch a special Kubernetes service launchpad later this year (powered by RKE).
