by ray | Feb 1, 2019 | Security, Cloud Tools, Tech News
Palo Alto Networks Inc. today announced that it has agreed to buy RedLock Inc., a competitor focused on securing cloud environments, in an all-cash deal worth $173 million. The purchase is the latest in a series of nine-figure acquisitions that the network protection...
by ray | Feb 1, 2019 | Azure, Microsoft
Three years ago, Mark Russinovich, CTO of Azure, Microsoft’s cloud program, said, “One in four [Azure] instances are Linux.” Then, in 2017, it was 40 percent Azure virtual machines (VM) were Linux. Today, Scott Guthrie, Microsoft’s...
by ray | Feb 1, 2019 | Kubernetes
Getting Started There are a lot of different ways to use Kubernetes. Even a quick look at the documentation shows that the number of options for building and managing Kubernetes clusters is overwhelming. The good news is that there are plenty of tools that...
by ray | Feb 1, 2019 | Security, Tech News
This morning Bloomberg is reporting a bombshell for hardware security. Companies like Amazon and Apple have found a malicious chip on their server motherboards. These are not counterfeit chips. They are not part of the motherboard design. These were added by the...
by ray | Jan 31, 2019 | Security, Tech News
Homeland Security has said it has “no reason to doubt” statements by Apple, Amazon and Supermicro denying allegations made in a Bloomberg report published earlier this week. It’s the first statement so far from the U.S. government on the...