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Cloud Instance Initialisation with cloud-init

Private cloud, public cloud, hybrid cloud, multi-cloud... the variety of locations, platforms and physical substrate you can start a cloud instance on is vast. Yet once you have selected an operating system which best supports your application stack, you should be able to use that operating system as an abstraction layer between different clouds.

The no-nonsense way to accelerate your business with containers

Container technology has brought about a step-change in virtualisation technology. Organisations implementing containers see considerable opportunities to improve agility, efficiency, speed, and manageability within their IT environments. Containers promise to improve datacenter efficiency and performance without having to make additional investments in hardware or infrastructure. Traditional hypervisors provide the most common form of virtualisation, and virtual machines running on such hypervisors are pervasive in nearly every datacenter.

Security Automation & Orchestration Needs a Unified Platform

Today's Security Operations Centers are inherently at risk. Plagued with skill shortages and increasing incident volume, CISOs need to counteract widespread threats-like phishing, exfiltration, ransomware and lost devices-fast. A unified Security Incident Response Platform helps expedite your response by optimizing processes and empowering your security team.

Network configuration management: Best practices

When a business grows and its needs expand, configuration changes begin to take place on a daily basis. Network admin can carry out these changes manually, but this presents the risk of human error, resulting in faulty configurations. In this e-book, we'll take a look at the best practices that can help IT admins ensure hassle-free network configuration management, and avoid errors.