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February 15, 2022
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Tigera Tightens Cloud Native Container Security

Tigera claims you can catnap about your container security with its new cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) for its Calico Cloud. If the name sounds familiar, there’s a reason. Gartner defined CNAPP as an emerging category of security programs. Its point is to … Continue reading

January 13, 2022
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Wireshark creator joins Sysdig to extend it to cloud security

If you’re a real network administrator, you know and love open source Wireshark. For over 15-years, it’s been the tool that professionals use for network traffic protocol analysis. Nothing else even comes close. Now, Sysdig, the container and cloud security company, has hired … Continue reading

June 26, 2020
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Principled Technologies releases first true cloud performance benchmarks

We all use the cloud, but measuring cloud performance is difficult. I should know. I’ve written benchmarks, and I benchmarked the major public clouds for PC Magazine using Primate Labs’ Geekbench 3 and other programs, which, frankly, weren’t ideal for testing clouds. But now Principled Technologies and … Continue reading

June 24, 2020
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Red Hat upgrades Ansible DevOps and new Certified Ansible Content Collections

Ansible, a leading DevOps program, may not be Red Hat‘s most well-known product line, but after Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) for system and cloud administrators, it may be the most important one. Thanks to its latest edition, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform with Ansible Tower 3.7 … Continue reading