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The Shared Responsibility of Cloud Security

By Bob Erdman on Fri, 10/26/2018
The agreement that cloud security is a shared responsibility between cloud providers and cloud users has now firmly taken hold. How those responsibilities shake out, however, is an ongoing conversation.
Infrastructure and Data Protection
Article

Eight Steps Toward a Secure Hybrid Cloud Environment

Fri, 03/16/2018
Protect your data and your company from internal and external threats by ensuring that your security policies on-premises and in the cloud are aligned with this checklist.
Infrastructure and Data Protection
Compliance
Article

New Approaches to the SWIFT and PCI-DSS Framework

Mon, 03/13/2017
THE WORLD OF COMPLIANCE At the official start of summertime 2016 in Britain we are starting to consume the labour of last autumn, five gallons of alcoholic homemade cider (yum!) made from eight apple varieties grown in mine and my neighbors’ gardens. I’m very VERY careful sterilizing glassware, containers, and buckets: there was this unfortunate...
Infrastructure and Data Protection
Guide

UNIX Load Average Part 1: How It Works

In this online article Dr. Gunther digs down into the UNIX kernel to find out how load averages (the “LA Triplets”) are calculated and how appropriate they are as capacity planning metrics.
Guide

UNIX Load Average: Reweighed

This is an unexpected Part 3 to the discussion about the UNIX load average metric answering the question of where the weight factor comes from.
Guide

The “LA Triplets” Quiz

This is a little quiz to test your understanding of the triplet of numbers that appear in the UNIX® load average (LA) performance metric.