The intersection of edge computing, telecommunications networks, and the cloud

By Dustin Ward

It’s been 12-plus years since we embarked on the paradigm-shifting edge computing story, which brings the cloud closer to the source of data generation and consumption. Nowadays, the cloud provides resource-rich compute and storage capabilities, remote management, and new applications and services as latency continues to be reduced. Edge computing has gone mainstream, as evidenced…

AWS Elastic Load Balancing from a serverless perspective [infographic]

By Dustin Ward

Load balancing is a significant part of every internet-facing software, and with Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), AWS offers a set of load balancers for every use case.  Since our latest update, Dashbird also gives you insights into these ELB services; let’s look at them and see how they can be used in a serverless environment. What is Elastic…

Enabling Zero Trust with Azure network security services

By Dustin Ward

This blog has been co-authored by Eliran Azulai, Principal Program Manager. With the accelerated pace of digital transformation since the COVID-19 pandemic breakthrough, organizations continuously look to migrate their workloads to the cloud and to ensure their workloads are secure. Moreover, organizations need a new security model that more effectively adapts to the complexity of…

New performance and logging capabilities in Azure Firewall

By Dustin Ward

Organizations are speeding up workload migration to Azure to take advantage of the growing set of innovative cloud services, scale, and economic benefits of the public cloud. Applications migration to the cloud consequently increases the network traffic throughput demand. This puts pressure on network elements and more specifically on Azure Firewall which is in the…

Answering the biggest AWS Lambda questions

By Dustin Ward

AWS Lambda offers you a variety of benefits like real-time data processing, custom back-end service and a lot more. Wish you knew the ins-and-outs of this system so you could decide if it’s the right fit for you? With so much information available about AWS Lambda, it can be hard to know what it is…