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Detect suspicious activity in GCP using audit logs

GCP audit logs are a powerful tool that track everything happening in your cloud infrastructure. By analyzing them, you can detect and react to threats. Modern cloud applications are not just virtual machines, containers, binaries, and data. When you migrated to the cloud, you accelerated the development of your apps and increased operational efficiency. But you also started using new assets in the cloud that need securing.

10 Mistakes to Avoid When Sizing Cloud Resources

One of the most common concerns when moving to the cloud is cost. Given that cloud allows you to turn IT costs from CAPEX (long-term investments ex. in hardware equipment and software licenses) into OPEX (day-to-day operating expenses), it’s crucial to choose the right service and estimate it properly. In this article, we’ll look at the common pitfalls and discuss how you can avoid them to truly benefit from the cloud’s elasticity.

Boost Permissions Management with JFrog on Azure through Active Directory SSO

When you’ve chosen Microsoft Azure to host your JFrog Cloud Enterprise or Enterprise+ subscription, you’ll naturally want to make good use of the services Azure provides for security and user administration. DevOps security starts with who has access to your builds, releases, and automation.

Using SQL Clone with Githooks & Branch Policies in Azure DevOps

Switching branches quickly and testing Pull Request code when working on database changes is no easy thing, but fear not! Join Chris Unwin in this video to find out how you can set up SQL Clone to allow developers to preserve changes when switching branches, and how teams can review code against a live DB, rather than relying on the raw code in version control.

Why Your Business Should Consider Private And Direct Connections To Google Cloud

Although it entered the market later than Amazon and Microsoft, Google Cloud has established itself as one of the top 3 mainstream public clouds through its Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offerings, with a strong presence in Machine Learning, data analytics and AI (Artificial Intelligence). Google has also become known for an attractive pricing model for its cloud services.

IT Spring Cleaning: Making the best of the current situation

Spring is just around the corner. And since we're at home a lot right now due to the coronavirus pandemic, it's all the more worthwhile to take some time for spring cleaning. But it's not just in our own four walls that the winter grumpiness should disappear; the IT landscape is also in need of a digital spring cleaning.

Resource Roundup: Getting Started with InfluxDB Cloud on Google Cloud

Are you looking to get started with InfluxDB on Google Cloud? We’ve pulled together our top resources to help you get the most out of your time series data whether that’s coming from your Google Cloud infrastructure or your own application. Read how customers like Wayfair and Vera C. Rubin Observatory use InfluxDB on Google Cloud to solve their time series data collection and processing challenges to power their multifaceted, complex real-world use cases.

Use Nmap for faster discovery in Cloud Migrations

When starting a cloud migration project, one of the most important and often challenging parts is to have an accurate understanding of what you are trying to migrate. Over time, companies start new projects, which means creating new infrastructure, adding servers, databases, etc. This is a normal part of the development cycle. However, despite best efforts, inventories get out of sync.