Building Resilient APIs: Strategies for Uptime and Reliability in Cloud Communications

By Madhu Chavva, VP of Engineering at Growthbook & Co-founder of CloudPac AI APIs are the lifeblood of cloud communications, and their resilience can make or break system reliability. In today’s world of global-scale services, […]

How Elasticity and Scalability in the Cloud Enhance System Performance

By Behrad Babaee, Principal Solutions Architect at Aerospike Building cloud systems that weigh cost-efficiency and performance equally demands an understanding of the principles of elasticity and scalability. Elasticity dynamically allocates system res…

The Missing Sustainability Perspective in Cloud Architecture

By Christian Siegers Cloud computing has transformed IT by providing scalability, flexibility, and cost efficiency. However, sustainability is often overlooked in architectural decisions. The focus remains on performance, resilience, and operational co…

Optimizing Cloud Security: Managing Sprawl, Technical Debt, and Right-Sizing Challenges

By Peter Turpin As organizations continue to embrace digital transformation through the rapid adoption of cloud services, they can face significant security challenges stemming from cloud sprawl, technical debt, and improper right-sizing of IT resource…

Risk Matters: Cyber Risk and AI – The Changing Landscape

By Lawrence A. Gordon, PhD In today’s world of interconnected computer-based information systems, cyber risk has become one of the critical risk factors impacting organizations. Indeed, several studies have shown that cyber risk (i.e., the […]

Vigilance, Resilience, Flexibility Are Considered Keys to Countering Evolving Cyber Threats

Various emerging technologies (from cloud and edge computing and applied AI to virtual reality and blockchain) increasingly complicate cyber risk management. And intensifying this dynamic are “risk entanglement,” the “interconnectedness (‘not Internet’…

Turning Vulnerability to Cyber Threats into Industrial Grade Resiliency in the Manufacturing Industry

By Reidar Boldevin, Consulting Manager – Security at Columbus Abstract Manufacturing has been the most cyberattacked industry for three consecutive years. The interconnectedness of operational technology (OT) and informational technology (IT) networks,…