Rackspace unveils Service Blocks to mitigate excessive customer cloud costs
In 2018 Rackspace launched Service Blocks, a modular public cloud services programme from its Australian team aimed at cutting customer cloud wastage and cost.
How to maintain security without increasing the operational load on IT staff
A 2009 look at how IT teams could keep networks secure as users, devices and applications grew without extra staff, using automation for passwords, logs and access.
5G deployments primed to drive new business opportunities and revenue growth: BPI Network and A10 survey
A 2019 BPI Network survey for A10 Networks found mobile operators expected new 5G revenue from IoT use cases but saw security, especially DDoS and core protection, as essential.
Biotech companies turn to e-learning tools to reduce training costs
Why biotech firms use e-learning and learning management systems to cut training costs, from compliance and onboarding to vendor-reported savings in life sciences.
Cloud and virtualization are taxing data centers: the 2015 case for colocation or cloud
In 2015, IDC, 451 Research and Gartner described enterprises weighing owned data centres against colocation and cloud, as Aligned pitched pay-for-use capacity.
HPE and Rackspace announce pay-as-you-go OpenStack private cloud
In November 2017 HPE and Rackspace announced a partnership for pay-per-use OpenStack private cloud, a managed service built on HPE Flexible Capacity infrastructure.
Why end-to-end encryption holds the key to trusted clouds
In 2014, as Singapore launched MTCS SS and Heartbleed shook confidence, end-to-end encryption was pitched as the basis of trusted clouds. A look at the case made.
Insights from data analytics help ShopBack offer the best deals
In 2017 ShopBack described how the Elastic Stack and X-Pack sped up its product search, cut monitoring complexity and supported expansion into Indonesia and Taiwan.
Traffic, mobiles and cyberattacks test web content delivery, Akamai co-founder said
In 2012 Akamai co-founder Tom Leighton set out how mobile traffic and cyberattacks were testing web content delivery, as he prepared to become CEO.
Failure Fridays: how PagerDuty practised breaking its own systems
In 2016 PagerDuty’s engineering chief explained Failure Fridays, the weekly controlled-failure sessions begun in 2013 and inspired by Netflix, and how the practice has evolved.