Cloud Architecture Best Practices: Using the Right Tools

whitePaper | June 5, 2023

Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ: QLYS) is a pioneer and leading provider of cloud-based security and compliance solutions. The Qualys Cloud Platform and its integrated apps help businesses simplify security operations and lower the cost of compliance by delivering critical security intelligence on demand and automating the full spectrum of auditing, compliance and protection for IT systems and web applications.

whitePaper | December 30, 2022

Gartner estimates $195 Billion1 of spending across industries on Cloud Application Services (SaaS) in 2023, with Financial Services set to be one of the key contributors to this overall estimated spend. As banks seek to cut costs and ramp up digital transformation, cloud adoption by banks has accelerated. Just under three-quarters (72%) of IT executives at banks surveyed by The Economist Intelligence Unit in 20222, report that incorporating the cloud into their organization’s products and services will help them to achieve their business priorities. 82% of banking IT executives say they have a clear strategy for adopting cloud technology.

whitePaper | April 20, 2022

The Japanese cloud computing market segment is experiencing rapid development, and global cloud services providers (CSPs) are becoming an essential part of the wider I.T. community of the country. As the COVID-19 pandemic accelerates the adoption of cloud-based solutions by the private and public sectors, many Japanese organizations have been leveraging cloud technologies to adapt to an increased volume of employees working from home.

whitePaper | November 23, 2022

The pandemic put strong pressures on organizations to modernize their infrastructure. The sudden rush of remote workers using virtual desktop infrastructure has resulted in surges and strains within current IT infrastructure. Organizations then were faced with a difficult choice: continue operations with slow, and at times insufficient capacity to support its workers, or upgrade their IT infrastructure. Upgrading IT infrastructure provides its own challenges: on-prem upgrades are an expensive endeavor and a considerable effort must be put into provisioning the right amount of hardware. Under-provisioning could potentially result in disruptions to operations and over-provisioning would result in wasted expenses. The other option is migrating to the cloud, which although does allow for elasticity with provisioning, does have challenges in the massive, timeand resource-intensive process of replacing legacy systems with cloud-based SaaS enterprise software.

whitePaper | March 8, 2022

Our daily lives are easier and richer because of modern devices and applications—except when it comes to our work. Even routine work tasks often mean switching between applications, remembering passwords, and searching in multiple places for the right file or data. Add the distraction of app notifications and it’s easy to see how employees lose the productivity and quality experience that helps them work effectively.

whitePaper | April 8, 2022

The Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) Public Cloud is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering with an architecture that is based on industry standard best practices, and ensures that our customers’ data and infrastructure is secure in the public cloud.