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The digital transformation of an island nation: how Bahrain rose to lead cloud adoption in the GCC Region

CIO

Bahrain EDB As cloud adoption grows, its impact on economies and businesses is starting to show that digital transformation can make good on the utopian promises of innovation and improved public services. Those who demand to see hard facts that prove the power of cloud should examine Bahrain. So why did AWS select Bahrain?

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We are still early with the cloud

Erik Bernhardsson

about what I want from software infrastructure, but the ideas morphed in my head into something sort of wider. I encountered AWS in 2006 or 2007 and remember thinking that it's crazy — why would anyone want to put their stuff in someone else's data center? Less time spent on infrastructure. We've seen Cloud 1.0

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Storm in the stratosphere: how the cloud will be reshuffled

Erik Bernhardsson

Here's a theory I have about cloud vendors (AWS, Azure, GCP): Cloud vendors 1 will increasingly focus on the lowest layers in the stack: basically leasing capacity in their data centers through an API. Redshift at the time was the first data warehouse running in the cloud. 5 And what does that mean for other cloud products?

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Involta: On a mission to transform the world through technology

CIO

When Involta was founded in 2007, sustainability wasn’t a top-of-mind issue for the industry, but our founders understood its importance and continually made everyday improvements that promoted energy efficiency and reduced our carbon emissions,” says Kremer. “We

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3 Cybersecurity Technologies You Should Know

The Crazy Programmer

An SDP hides an organization’s infrastructure from outsiders, regardless of where it is situated, by constructing a perimeter with software rather than hardware. SDP is based on the Defence Information Systems Agency’s (DISA) “need to know” model, devised in 2007. That way only authorized users can access it.

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The Evolution of Cloud-Native Application Security

Prisma Clud

Insecure direct object references (IDOR) and CSRF made the 2007 OWASP list , for example. 2015 Onward: Secure Deployment in the Cloud Era The migration to the cloud significantly changed the definition of AppSec. But in cloud computing, cloud service providers (CSPs) and cloud users operate within a shared responsibility model.

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Infrastructure-as-Code Is The New Assembly Language For The Cloud

Stacks on Stacks

My career as a software engineer started in 2007 at Purdue University. A big component of this was figuring out how to navigate a gigantic code base, which hit 6 million lines of code that year (again, in 2007!) Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) fulfills the same foundational mechanism for cloud computing.