What's new in the cloud: 15 materials on standards, tools and regulation

Under the cut - reviews of cloud solutions, cases, practical advice and analytical materials from our blog and Telegram channel .

Industry

• Where cloud infrastructure moves in 2019 A brief overview of the key cloud trends of this year: serverless systems, multi-cloud, 5G networks, quantum technologies and AI systems. In our Telegram channel, we present statistics and expert opinions on the topic and designate the development prospects of each of the areas.

• VMworld Europe 2018: the main announcements of the last conference Here you will find a compact overview of the Cloud Foundation 3.5 platform, Project Dimension beta, a few words about PKS and vRealize Automation. Another bit of information about the latest VMware transactions.

• GDPR effect: how the new regulation has affected the IT ecosystem It will be about why “it’s not so easy to take” and begin to fully comply with the requirements of the GDPR, introduce new security policies and mechanisms for working with personal data. We analyze cases of companies that have decided not to even try to do this and closed.

• Who supports cloud projects: 4 open source funds Post-reference on the funds OSF, GraphQL, Ceph and Edge - they all develop tools for working in the cloud and form thematic communities around them. Let's tell what each of them is remarkable.

IaaS-cases

• IaaS for Avito.ru Today it is one of the largest Russian online sites. In the material, its representatives tell how IaaS helped scale up the business, why a hybrid infrastructure was chosen, and what systems they brought to the cloud.

• How to place in the cloud 100% of the infrastructure Case SL Tech, specializing in the development of B2B services. In our microformat, we explain why the company decided to move the IT infrastructure to the cloud, what is the benefit of such a decision, what exactly was transferred, and what is important to remember in order not to regret about migrating to the cloud.

• How IaaS helps the largest network of pharmacies This is a material about how the GOSAPTEKA pharmacy chain transferred its services to the cloud. Here is the basic migration algorithm with comments from representatives of the pharmacy network - from choosing a provider to sending individual services to the cloud: an accounting database, a commerce system, and others.

• What tasks will IaaS solve for companies? Start a business from scratch, scale the infrastructure and cater to all the requirements of the regulator - IaaS-cloud will help. Using the BelkaCar, PickPoint and RailCommerce case studies, we explain the power of IaaS.

• IT architecture of the future - who prepares for it and how We are talking about data processing and storage , peripheral computing, multi-cloud, virtual networks and IoT. Micropost will tell you what opportunities are there, and who already uses them.

Technologies and tools

• What you need to know about PCI DSS Material about what constitutes a standard for protecting payment card data. We consider the requirements and talk about certification.

• Virtual machines or containers We talk about the advantages and disadvantages from the position of corporate customers. The latter include organizations that provide services to a large number of users and require maximum fault tolerance of systems. We will tell you how it is easier and more profitable for such customers to solve their problems.

• Why hard drives are less likely to break Previously, hard drives broke more often than all other components of servers. Today the situation has improved, but there is still something to work on. We say that “prolongs the life” of HDD in the market of data storage systems.

• Zscaler and Security as a Service Solutions Today, more and more companies are encouraging telecommuting. The “entry point” for employees in such a case is often virtual infrastructure. To protect corporate data without compromising the efficiency of business applications, you need to take into account a number of features of the cloud environment. We describe how Security as a Service and Zscaler will help.

• Disaster recovery as a service: what you need to know Reference material on infrastructure redundancy and disaster recovery using the IaaS provider DR site. With examples, we analyze the basic concepts: recovery time objective, recovery point objective and disaster recovery service, and others.

• How to improve the energy efficiency of the data center: 4 working approaches Data center energy efficiency is addressed in different ways: someone builds data centers in the Arctic, others - immerse servers in oil. In this article, we talk about less radical methods of reducing energy costs: DCIM-solutions , virtualization and climate control.