Embotics Cloud Management Blog

Last month, I attended the inaugural AWS re:Inforce conference in Boston – the company’s first event focused on security and compliance.

The way enterprises use the cloud is changing. Next-generation applications, built and delivered using DevOps methodology, are moving to the cloud. These virtual environments continue to evolve as enterprises move IT to the cloud, enabling the scalability and flexibility of on-demand resources. But with this next generation comes the need for increased security as many of these applications are not only complex, but can potentially have different types of security issues ranging from misconfigured servers to bad code.

As a locally-focused community bank, Great Western Bank has always been about building meaningful relationships with the individuals and businesses they serve. The bank also understands that in order to be successful as a company, their people must first be successful.

A few weeks ago, I wrote in this space about a recent webinar Embotics hosted with Torsten Volk of Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). On the webinar, Torsten and Scott Davis, our chief technology officer, spoke about the top priorities for managing hybrid cloud. My previous post took a look at the issue of cost control, but today I want to focus on issues that are at or near the top of every boardroom agenda: security and compliance.

From increased efficiency and cost savings to workload scalability and speed, cloud computing is becoming a business imperative and the de facto computing method for companies of all shapes and sizes. In fact, Comptia's latest Trends in Cloud Computing report reveals that 90 percent of companies currently leverage cloud computing in some way, while IDC estimates total spending on cloud IT infrastructure alone to increase more than 18% in 2017 to reach $44.2 billion.