Gilad David Maayan

Gilad David Maayan

Software Deployment Best Practices in the Azure Cloud

January 31, 2023

What Is Cloud Deployment? Cloud deployment is the process of deploying and managing applications, services, and infrastructure in a cloud computing environment. Cloud deployment provides scalability, reliability and accessibility over the internet, and it allows organizations to take advantage of

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Gilad David Maayan

Common Kubernetes Errors and How they Impact Cloud Deployments

January 27, 2023

What Are Kubernetes Errors? Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration system for automating software deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. There are many types of errors that can occur when using Kubernetes. Some common types of errors include: Deployment

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Gilad David Maayan

How Does a Service Mesh Impact Your Cloud Costs? A FinOps Perspective

January 25, 2023

Service Mesh and Cloud Costs What Is a Service Mesh? A service mesh is a configurable infrastructure layer for microservices-based applications that makes communication between service instances flexible, reliable, and fast. It provides features such as traffic management, service discovery,

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Gilad David Maayan

Managing Application Dependencies in a Cloud Migration

January 12, 2023

What Are Application Dependencies? Application dependencies are the external components, libraries, and frameworks that a software application requires in order to function correctly. These dependencies may include things like operating system libraries, third-party libraries, and other software applications that the

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Gilad David Maayan

What Is SASE and Why It is Critical for Cloud Security

December 28, 2022

What is SASE (Secure Access Service Edge)? SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) is a term coined by Gartner to refer to a new architecture for networking and security that combines both functions into a single, cloud-based service. SASE is designed

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Gilad David Maayan

Network Security in the Public Cloud: 2023 Guide

December 14, 2022

Network Security in the Public Cloud What is Network Security? Network security is a strategic approach to securing an organization’s resources and data across the corporate network. It helps protect organizations of all sizes, industries, and infrastructure against cybersecurity threats

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Gilad David Maayan

Why Application Dependency Mapping Tools Are Critical for Cloud Operations

August 16, 2022

What Is Application Dependency Mapping? Modern software development teams use fast-paced DevOps work processes. However, the complexity of modern software applications often gets in the way. A typical enterprise software project has thousands of components, many of them third-party and

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Gilad David Maayan

3 Pillars of Open Source Security: SCA, Vulnerability Management, and DFIR

August 2, 2022

What is Open Source Security? Open source software is now an inseparable part of most software projects. Research has estimated that as much as 90% of enterprise software is made up of open source components. However, while open source is

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Gilad David Maayan

What Is ZTNA and How Will it Affect Your Cloud?

July 12, 2022

What is Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)? In a zero-trust security model, all user connections are authenticated, and users only receive the access and privileges they need to fulfill their role. This is very different from traditional security solutions like

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Gilad David Maayan

Everything You Need to Know About CSPM

May 5, 2022

Cloud Security Posture Management Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) enables you to secure cloud data and resources. You can integrate CSPM into your development process, to ensure continuous visibility. CSPM is particularly beneficial for DevOps pipelines, which rely heavily on

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Gilad David Maayan

SSPM: System Hardening for SaaS

February 16, 2022

What Is SSPM? SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) is a set of security tools that an organization’s security team can use to gain visibility and manage security for their Software as a Service (SaaS) applications. SaaS is an increasingly popular

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Gilad David Maayan

Quick Guide to Azure Storage Pricing for 2022

February 9, 2022

Azure Storage Pricing Introduction to Azure Storage Services Azure Storage is a set of cloud storage services provided by Microsoft as part of the Azure public cloud. It offers highly scalable object storage, file systems as a service, virtual disk

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Azure Red Hat OpenShift: What You Should Know

October 28, 2021

Azure Red Hat OpenShift: What You Should Know What Is Azure Red Hat OpenShift? Red Hat OpenShift provides a Kubernetes platform for enterprises. Azure Red Hat OpenShift permits you to deploy fully-managed OpenShift clusters in the Azure cloud. Azure Red

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Making the Move to Cloud Storage

October 19, 2021

Moving to Cloud Storage If your organization is building or maintaining software services, scalable and performant storage is a prime concern. Most modern applications have exorbitant data requirements, and mission critical use cases require storage with low latency and high

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Gilad David Maayan

Leveraging Managed Kubernetes to Improve Your Operations

March 23, 2020

Leveraging Managed Kubernetes Kubernetes simplifies container orchestration, but sometimes companies are struggling with Kubernetes adoption. Many organizations do not have the required expertise to configure and manage Kubernetes by themselves. Managed Kubernetes is a good solution to this dilemma if

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Richard Duffy
Overcoming IT Infrastructure Disaster (Updated: 03.24.2023) One of the least considered benefits of cloud computing in the average small or mid-sized business manager’s mind is the aspect of disaster recovery. Part of the reason for ...
Drew Firment
Stop Focusing on Cloud Adoption and Start Focusing on Cloud Maturity For the past several years, most organizations have made it their priority to shift much of their applications and data from on-premises to the ...
Jen Klostermann
The Fintech Landscape The Nitty Gritty Although the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted its existence, most of us have been using fintech in some form or another for quite some time. It’s a big part of ...
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Higher Education A big challenge for professionals of all ages is time. Balancing the responsibilities of work and life leave little time for self-improvement in the form of education. But ongoing education is more than ...
John Peluso
Save Your Organization on Cloud Costs Organizations of all sizes are currently navigating their plans to avoid the recent surge in cyber-attacks and data breaches and preparing for unforeseen setbacks. Building a sensible backup and ...
Mark Ardito
OPEX is the new battleground I recently wrote in CloudTweaks about how cloud is forcing CIOs to work more closely with their C-suite colleagues to sell the benefits and its role as a business driver ...
Gilad David Maayan
What is SASE (Secure Access Service Edge)? SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) is a term coined by Gartner to refer to a new architecture for networking and security that combines both functions into a single, ...
Patrick Melampy
Cloud On-Ramp and Protecting Performance The expansion of remote work and the massive growth in usage of cloud-based applications have stressed existing infrastructure and put a keen focus on the performance of everyone’s network environment ...