Many people are still parroting the “containers are fundamentally insecure” mantra while clearly not understanding the current state of the container development state. Since the start of the Docker-driven container revival, a host of useful tools have been developed to enhance container security. Nowadays, the larger security risks when deploying …
Happy 6th Birthday OpenStack!
OpenStack was perhaps initially ‘conceived’ in the form of the Nasa Nebula project right down the road from us, at the NASA Ames Research Center, but was ‘born’ at the first Design Summit in Austin, TX- July 13-14, 2010. We attended last week’s birthday party hosted by the SF Bay OpenStack to …
Video: The Cloud Value Proposition: Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) for Enterprise Users
Are cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings safe enough for use by enterprise level businesses? In this episode, Robert Starmer notes that public cloud SaaS offerings do have data security, data sovereignty and user access security issues, but IaaS may have the solution. Click the video to learn how!