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

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

Industry

• Where the cloud infrastructure is going in 2019 A brief overview of this year's key cloud trends: serverless systems, multi-cloud, 5G networks, quantum technologies and AI systems. In our Telegram channel we provide statistics and expert opinions on the topic and indicate 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, beta Project Dimension, a few words about PKS and vRealize Automation. Some more information on the latest VMware deals.

• The effect of GDPR: how the new regulation has affected the IT ecosystem It will be about why it’s “not 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 the cases of companies that decided not to even try to do this and closed.

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

IaaS cases

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

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

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

• What tasks will IaaS solve for companies Starting a business from scratch, scale infrastructure and cater to all the requirements of the regulator - IaaS cloud will help. By the example of BelkaCar, PickPoint and RailCommerce cases, we explain the strength of IaaS.

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

Technology 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 perspective of corporate customers. To the latter, we include organizations that provide services to a large number of users and require maximum system fault tolerance. We’ll tell you how it is easier and more profitable for such customers to solve their problems.

• Why are hard drives less likely to break? Previously, hard drives broke more often than all other server components. Today the situation has improved, but there is still work to do. We are talking about what "extends the life" of the HDD in the market for storage systems.

• Zscaler and Security as a Service solutions Today more and more companies are encouraging telecommuting. In this case, the virtual entry point often becomes the “entry point” for employees. To protect corporate data without compromising the effectiveness of business applications, you need to consider a number of features of the cloud environment. We tell how Security as a Service and Zscaler will help in this.

• Disaster Recovery as a Service: What You Need to Know Background material about infrastructure redundancy and disaster recovery using the IaaS provider DR platform. Using examples, we analyze the basic concepts: recovery time objective, recovery point objective and disaster recovery service, and others.

• How to increase the energy efficiency of a data center: 4 working approaches Data center approaches to improving energy efficiency are different: 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.