The list of organizations that have suffered high-profile cyber attacks grows longer by the week. As a result, CIOs and IT leaders have put network security under a bright spotlight. Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) is a rapidly growing area of interest AND...
What is Cloud Cost Optimization? Cloud Cost Optimization is a process, ideally automated, that involves the ongoing review of cloud costs. Successful optimization results in waste identification & remediation, and constant downward pressure on cloud bills. To keep...
Introduction With the ever-growing adoption of cloud services, effective cloud management has become more crucial than ever. It’s not just about maximizing efficiency and minimizing costs - it's also about safeguarding your organization from potential financial damage...
Your ops team are driven to maximize performance with real-time alerting and remediation. Your engineering teams are keen to move at pace, often automating everything in sight. Your finance team is desperate to keep a lid on costs, reducing them wherever possible....
AWS launched the AWS Well-Architected Framework to help cloud architects design & operate securely & efficiently, and help teams make better-informed decisions when building applications. You've probably heard about Well-Architected. Maybe you'd like to get...
With some cloud costs spiraling out of control, grimace-inducing inflation, and a global recession seemingly looming, cloud costs have never been more under the microscope. Forrester Senior Analyst, Tracy Woo, says that 80% of her cloud conversations involve FinOps in...
I feel your pain, Cloud Professional. Every day, you’re dealing with escalating pressures and demands from all sides, against a landscape of risk and technology that never stops shifting. Cloud technology is powerful — but, as our latest white paper illustrates, it’s...
What is NIST CSF? The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) was published in February 2014, in response to Presidential Executive Order 13636, “Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity”. This order called for a...
Hyperglance 7.0 is Here! The Hyperglance team is pleased to announce the release of the latest version of its cloud management platform. Thanks to our entire team for their efforts and hard work in producing a new user interface (UI), coupled with exciting new...
Log4j 2 Vulnerability Details A remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) is affecting multiple versions of the Apache Log4j 2 library. Active scanning and exploitation for this vulnerability has been detected and proof-of-concept code is available. Log4j 2...
I expected AWS re:Invent 2021 To Be Different There was no in-person re:Invent last year (for obvious reasons) and with the various goings-on of late, I really thought this year would be a scaled-down affair. Boy, was I wrong! My initial impression arriving into...
Cloud Governance is Tough Cloud Governance can be difficult to translate into technical objectives, and even more challenging to implement and scale. Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) Cloud Adoption Framework includes 6 different perspectives: Governance People Business...
New In-App RI Recommendations Continuing with our commitment to helping you save money in the cloud, we’ve added a recommendation engine that helps you see which AWS Instances would benefit from a Reserved Instance (RI) reservation. This new feature is included in all...
Hyperglance Launches Cloud Automation, Remediation & Actions Hyperglance’s automation/action feature set builds on top of our inventory and rules engine to give you the ability to manage and automate your AWS environment directly from Hyperglance. Using our...
What is Cloud Visualization? Visualization is a human trait; it's been part of us since our ancestors painted on cave walls to map animal types, movement and the hunt. Visualization is the representation of an object, situation, or set of information as a chart or...