Rethinking Monitoring: How Catchpoint Shifts Focus to the End User

Catchpoint is redefining monitoring by prioritizing the end-user experience instead of traditional IT metrics. They aim to identify performance bottlenecks from the perspective of users to ensure optimal service delivery and satisfaction. For additional insights from AI Infrastructure Field Day 2, watch Barton George’s blog!


Fortinet CNAPP Review: AI-Powered Cloud Security and Composite Threat Detection

In a comprehensive review of Fortinet’s CNAPP, the platform is highlighted for integrating AI to enhance cloud security and manage composite threats efficiently. The product emphasizes proactive threat detection and response, leveraging AI to provide real-time insights and robust cloud-native protection. For more in-depth coverage of AI Infrastructure Field Day 2, where this review was featured, watch Barton George’s blog!


How Infoblox Reinvents Network Services for the Multi-Cloud Era

Infoblox is at the forefront of transforming network services to thrive in the multi-cloud era, addressing the complexity of managing and securing network infrastructures spread across various cloud environments. Their innovative solutions offer enhanced visibility, automation, and security, ensuring operational continuity and resilience. Read more in this post-Cloud Field Day 22 blog post by Barton George.


Hybrid and Multicloud Applications are a Headache

Hybrid-multi-cloud applications have become part of the enterprise IT landscape, but they give me a headache. This episode of the Tech Field Day Podcast features Barton George, Mike Graff, Mitch Lewis, and Alastair Cooke discussing the dream of a single cloud provider being home to every application in the enterprise has long been morphed. The goal is to optimize applications by using both cloud and on-premises resources, but integrating different platforms is challenging. Services like AWS and Azure have distinct configurations, making a unified management console difficult to achieve. Some companies simplify by using a single cloud, but mergers or unique business needs often disrupt this approach. While hybrid multi-cloud setups improve efficiency, they also bring ongoing IT challenges.


Barton George

Barton has been in the tech industry for over 30 years, focusing on cloud, developers and open source.