Cloud, Compiled - Issue #55

Daniel Kirsch, Co-Founder, Principal Analyst, and Managing Director at Techstrong Research, discusses their report on multicloud and alternative cloud usage.

For many traditional hosting providers, there will be a scramble to find a way to scale to meet customer requirements. One of the things that makes the marriage of Akamai and Linode so exciting is that it really brings into focus how important it is to be able to service the entire continuum of cloud – from an individual developer to multinational enterprise – and do so with the scale and security this next wave of cloud computing requires.

Two security vendors – Orca Security and Tenable – have accused Microsoft of unnecessarily putting customers’ data and cloud environments at risk by taking far too long to fix critical vulnerabilities in Azure.

Developers and managers have different definitions of productivity. Most developers think their managers value output, when they really value outcomes. If your team has never answered “what is productivity?” before jumping to metrics, create space for that discussion.