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Using SLA Management to Save Time and Improve

December 13, 2017 — by Daniel Lakier — 0

Today more than ever, the success or failure of our digital enterprise rests on whether our customer has a good user experience. No one wants to use something that is difficult to use or unreliable, and most of us don’t want to use something unless the user experience is consistent. All too often, organizations expend all their energy into making their tool /application look good, be easy to use or making it have great functionality. What they forget is that performance, especially consistent performance, can be just as important. All these things rolled into one are what I call the convenience factors. It’s not a new concept and many brick-and-mortar companies have failed over the years because of this. If we go back a few years, we can see many examples of technology or companies succumbing from an original position of strength because they never took this perceived convenience/quality factor into account. Three examples:

Marrying the Business Need With Technology Drive, Part Two: Security by Proxy or to Complicate

December 6, 2017 — by Daniel Lakier — 0

One of the biggest challenges we continue to see in the evolving cloud and DevOps world is around security and standards in general.

The general lack of accumulated infrastructure knowledge coupled with the enthusiasm with which DevOps teams like to experiment is causing significant challenges for corporations in terms of standardization. This is leading to two primary symptoms:

Encryption is a Double-Edged Sword for the Healthcare Industry

December 5, 2017 — by Frank Yue — 0

The healthcare industry must take security and privacy seriously. They collect and retain personal health information (PHI) and financial information while providing life-saving medical care. The protection of this information and the networks that manage it is one of the top concerns for IT organizations in the healthcare industry.

Marrying the Business Need With Technology Drive, Part One: Choosing Your Cloud

November 30, 2017 — by Daniel Lakier — 0

Several years ago, the monolithic approach to application development fell out of vogue because time to market became the key success metric in our ever-changing world. Agile development started to become the norm and the move to DevOps was born. At the same time as this change was taking place, there was another ground breaking development: the advent of public clouds. Either change by itself was industry -impacting but the two happening at the same time, both enabling each other, changed everything.

Load Balancers and Microservices

November 28, 2017 — by Prakash Sinha — 0

Many organizations, such as Netflix and Amazon, are using microservice architecture to implement business applications as a collection of loosely coupled services. Some of the reasons to move to this distributed, loosely coupled architecture is to enable hyperscale, and continuous delivery for complex applications, among other things. Teams in these organizations have adopted Agile and DevOps practices to deliver applications quickly and to deploy them with a lower failure rate than traditional approaches. However, you have to balance the complexity that comes with a distributed architecture with the application needs, scale requirements and time-to-market constraints.

Encryption is a Costume to Hide Threats on the Internet

November 1, 2017 — by Frank Yue — 0

It is the time of the year where adults and children alike put on costumes and go out to gather candy or create mischief. The costumes are scary or cute, but always achieve the goal of obfuscating the individual and hiding their true identity and intent. The person wearing the costume does not express their goal until they are interacting with their target.

Old Technologies Enable Future Secure Application Delivery Networking

October 18, 2017 — by Frank Yue — 0

Many years ago, one of my customers had an internet-facing application. They positioned load balancers in front of the application to support the growing traffic load. Traffic to the website was growing so fast, that parts of the network infrastructure could not support the customer load.

Why Traditional High Availability (HA) for Security Devices is Not Enough

October 11, 2017 — by Daniel Lakier — 0

It’s funny although sometimes the first way we do something might be the right way, we try to improve it to make it look shinier. Eventually we realize that the most obvious answer was actually the right answer, our original tactic.

Single Sign-On (SSO) for Cloud and On Premise Apps

October 10, 2017 — by Prakash Sinha — 1

If you have signed into Gmail and noticed that you were also able to access Google portfolio apps such as Google Maps, YouTube, Google Play, Google Photos and other Google applications, you are already using SSO! The user logs in once to a Google account, and has access to other Google applications.

Financial Institutions Must Protect the Data Like They Protect the Money

September 27, 2017 — by Frank Yue — 0

If you are like most people and myself, you do not go into a bank and have a conversation with a teller when you make a deposit or withdrawal. You probably do not write paper checks and sign them. You have an app on your phone to access your bank account and use one of the thousands of automated teller machines (ATM), around the world to move money in and out of your accounts.

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