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The Pope issued a recent encyclical on AI, urging developers to safeguard human agency in the age of artificial intelligence. Eyvonne and William explore this encyclical, moving beyond the headlines to the core message regarding human dignity. They examine how the document provides a values-based framework for evaluating technology and the need for a balanced... Read more »

Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman cover Tim Cook's final WWDC as CEO and Apple's Gemini-powered Siri strategy, the $35 billion Apollo and Blackstone deal backing Anthropic's capacity expansion, Intel's packaging wins with Google and NVIDIA, SpaceX's IPO at a $1.77 trillion valuation, Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 launch across every major cloud, and earnings reactions from Oracle, Micron, and Adobe. The handpicked topics for this week are: Apple's Siri AI Will Run on Gemini, Closing Out Tim Cook's Final WWDC as CEO: At WWDC, Apple confirmed Siri AI will run on Gemini through a new billion-dollar per year, multi-year deal, while Apple's Foundation Model Cloud Pro runs on NVIDIA GPUs inside Google Cloud. The announcement marks Tim Cook's last WWDC as CEO before John Ternus takes over on September 1. Apple isn't building its own AI cluster or competing on CapEx. They're betting that by owning the consumption layer, backed by access to health data and private messaging through iMessage, Apple will have a moat that compute spending can't replicate. (The Decode) Apollo and Blackstone Close the Largest Private Credit Deal Ever Backing Anthropic's Capacity Expansion: A $35 billion deal, the largest private credit transaction on record, will fund Google TPU capacity tied to Anthropic's compute needs, with Broadcom backstopping senior debt tranches and Google backstopping lease payments. The structure treats compute as a lendable asset class and signals more than 20 gigawatts of demand still being built out through 2028. Circular financing between chipmakers, cloud providers, and AI labs has moved from controversial to standard practice. (The Decode) Intel's Foundry Wins Packaging Work on Google's TPUs, Not a Full Fab Deal: Reports that Intel landed a deal tied to Google and NVIDIA reframe what's actually being handed off. Intel gets the packaging work on over 3 million TPUs, the compute die stays with TSMC, and the I/O die is being negotiated with Samsung at 2nm. INTC rose 12% Monday. The deal represents a low-risk path for Intel to augment, not replace, TSMC, while raising questions about anti-competitive dynamics in the foundry market. (The Decode) SpaceX Becomes an AI Infrastructure Company With a $1.77 Trillion IPO: SpaceX's IPO priced amid oversubscribed demand, with its valuation now reflecting not just Starlink connectivity and launch dominance but a newly material AI business, including AI1 orbital data center tests planned for late 2027 and a $920 million per month Google compute contract running through 2029. A sum-of-the-parts breakdown of the connectivity, launch, and AI segments lands well short of the trading price, with the gap largely explained by confidence in Elon Musk's track record of execution. (The Decode) Anthropic Launches Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Across Every Major Cloud: Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 with same-day availability across Snowflake, AWS Bedrock, Vertex AI, and Microsoft Foundry, pricing at $10 and $50 per million tokens. The hyperscaler-neutral distribution strategy lands ahead of Anthropic's anticipated IPO. The models represent a real step up in research capability over Opus 4.8, but they come with a significant change. Users no longer have the option to opt out of data sharing with Anthropic, a shift some enterprises, including Microsoft, are already responding to. (The Decode) Is SpaceX a Once-in-a-Generation Entry or the Top of the Market? One side argues SpaceX represents a generational opportunity on par with early Amazon or Netflix, with interplanetary travel and off-world resource extraction as the long-term payoff that justifies looking past current valuation math. The other side argues this is peak euphoria: a company trading at roughly 95 times sales, propped up in part by circular investment from Google into both SpaceX and its AI segment, with a steep drawdown likely before any sustained climb. (The Flip) The Chip and Security Trade Reverses From Broken to Bifurcated: The semiconductor sector posted its biggest single-day gain since 2020, with the SOX up 5% on Monday, June 8, as a prior selloff in names like Broadcom, CrowdStrike, and Palo Alto Networks fully reversed. Intel rose 12%, Marvell 10%, and Corning 7%. The rebound reframes the AI trade narrative from a broad breakdown to a split between winners and laggards within the same sector. (Bulls & Bears) Oracle Posts a Record Quarter, But the Market Focuses on a $50 Billion Funding Plan: Oracle delivered record revenue of $19.2 billion, up 21 %, with EPS of $2.11, beating estimates of $1.89. IaaS grew 93 %, the fastest pace among hyperscalers, and RPO hit $638 billion, up $85 billion quarter over quarter, including $75 billion in AI contracts. FY27 guidance of $90 billion was maintained, and EPS guidance was raised, yet the stock fell 5% after hours amid concerns about Oracle's capital spending plans. Oracle's AI cloud backlog now exceeds those of AWS, Google, and Microsoft, built heavily on commitments from Anthropic and OpenAI. (Bulls & Bears) Micron's Profit Trajectory Puts It in Google's Earnings Tier: Micron is projected to generate nearly as much profit in 2027 as Google, with Q2 revenue of $23.86 billion, up 22 % and beating estimates, and Q3 guidance of $33.5 billion in revenue, $19.15 EPS, and 81 % gross margin. The stock is up 776%, with Wall Street firms, including UBS, raising price targets. The open question is whether memory has broken its historically cyclical pattern given sustained AI demand. (Bulls & Bears) Adobe Beats Across the Board, But the Stock Drops on CEO Departure and Freemium Pivot: Adobe posted record revenue of $6.62 billion, up 13 % and beating consensus of $6.45 billion, with non-GAAP EPS of $5.96, topping estimates of $5.81. AI first ARR tripled year over year to over $500 million, with total ARR reaching $27.1 billion, and FY26 guidance was raised. The stock still fell 5.5 % after hours, driven by the CFO's departure to Marvell and market concern over a strategic shift toward freemium pricing that delays near-term profitability. (Bulls & Bears) Watch the full video at sixfivemedia.com, and be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel so you never miss an episode. The Decode Apple WWDC- Apple Caves to Google AND NVIDIA — Siri AI Runs on Gemini ($1B/yr) + Apple Foundation Model Cloud Pro Runs on NVIDIA GPUs in Google Cloud; Tim Cook's Final WWDC as CEO Before John Ternus Succeeds Him Sept 1 https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/08/apple-wwdc-2026-live-updates.html Google's $35B Infra Deal — Apollo + Blackstone Close the Largest Private Credit Deal Ever; Broadcom Backstops Senior Tranches; Google Backstops Lease Payments https://www.reuters.com/business/apollo-blackstone-back-anthropics-35-billion-capacity-expansion-new-broadcom-tie-2026-06-09/ Intel's Foundry Reportedly Wins Google Packaging (Not Full Fab) — The Information Reframed: 3M+ TPU Packaging by Intel, Compute Die Still TSMC, I/O Die Being Negotiated With Samsung 2nm; INTC +12% Monday; Pat Calls Out TSMC Anti-Competitive Risk https://www.trendforce.com/news/2026/06/09/news-intel-foundry-gains-momentum-as-google-reportedly-orders-3m-tpus-nvidia-evaluates-18a-for-multi-die-gpu-design/ SpaceX Becomes an AI Infrastructure Company — Friday IPO at $1.77T; AI1 Orbital Data Center Tests Late 2027; Google $920M/mo Compute Contract Through 2029 https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/spacex-poised-history-record-75-100000402.html Anthropic Ships Claude Fable 5 + Mythos 5 — Same-Day Distribution Across Snowflake, AWS Bedrock, Vertex AI, Microsoft Foundry; Hyperscaler-Neutral by Design Ahead of IPO; $10/$50 per M Tokens https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-fable-5-mythos-5 The Flip FOR: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/11/spacex-billionaire-investing.html AGAINST: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/technology/elon-musk-spacex-ipo.html Bulls & Bears The Chip + Security Tape Recovery — SOX +5% Monday June 8 (Biggest Day Since 2020); AVGO/CRWD/PANW Selloff Reversed; Intel +12%, Marvell +10%, Corning +7%; the AI Trade Pivots From "Broken" to "Bifurcated" https://www.investopedia.com/stock-market-today-dow-jones-s-and-p-500-06082026-11992852 Oracle (ORCL) Q4 FY26 ACTUALS — Record $19.2B Rev (+21%), EPS $2.11 Beat ($1.89); IaaS +93%; RPO HITS $638B (+$85B QoQ, $75B AI Contracts); FY27 $90B Guide Maintained, EPS Guide Raised; Stock −5% AH on Massive Capex Plan https://www.tradingkey.com/analysis/stocks/us-stocks/261959450-oracle-record-q4-2026-earnings-report-cloud-data-center-stock-tradingkey "$MU Will Generate Almost As Much Profit in 2027 as $GOOGL"; Q2 Rev $23.86B (+22% Beat), Q3 Guide $33.50B / $19.15 EPS / 81% GM; MU Stock +776%; UBS Among Wall Street Raising Targets https://247wallst.com/investing/2026/06/11/wall-street-just-put-a-monster-target-on-micron-is-the-stock-still-too-cheap/ Adobe (ADBE) Q2 FY26 ACTUALS — Record $6.62B Rev (+13%) Beats Consensus $6.45B; Non-GAAP EPS $5.96 Beats $5.81; AI-First ARR Triples YoY to $500M+; Total ARR $27.10B; FY26 Guide RAISED; Stock −5.5% AH Despite Beat-and-Raise https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260611677110/en/Adobe-Reports-Record-Q2-Results    

William and Eyvonne discuss recent tech news, including the growing political and community opposition to AI data centers driven by fears over power and water usage. They also analyze the “AI Chip War” as hyperscalers such as AWS and Google invest in specialized silicon for training and inference.  Episode Links: Amid backlash, O'Leary Digital CEO... Read more »

Guest post by Sapthagiri Chapalapalli, Head of TCS Europe The European Environment European organisations have a unique opportunity to lead with trusted infrastructure, rigorous compliance, and innovation that advances both growth and societal goals. The European Union is seen as a regulatory superpower globally, often setting the standards which the world then adopts. In technology, traditionally Europe sets the bar high on risk, safety, rights and antitrust, but there is recognition that there is tension between this approach, versus the more innovation-friendly and hands-off attitude in the US. Organisations are caught in the middle, needing to be compliant, to work globally, and ultimately ensure their entire digital ecosystem is serving their needs with minimal friction. Maintaining a competitive environment for growth is a constant tightrope to walk. Right now, the game-changing nature of AI, a fluctuating global legislative environment, and concern over geopolitical risks, data dependencies, and concerns over supply chain vulnerabilities are driving European organisations to reevaluate their technology stacks as a business priority. A sovereign cloud approach is a strong route to advancing business goals while maintaining compliance and being in control of your data. The sovereign cloud objective Sovereign cloud is a strong option for European organisations because, by placing the concept of sovereignty at the core of transformation, they integrate data protection and compliance mechanisms from the start to create a framework within which they can competitively innovate, while exercising ultimate control over their data in a protected environment. At its core, sovereign cloud is a purpose-built cloud computing environment that specifically meets certain protection, security or legal requirements, granting organisations more comprehensive control over their digital assets. Data stays within defined borders or jurisdictions, even when the organisation is working with a global cloud provider, while remaining scalable to the needs of the business. Sovereign cloud provides strategic autonomy, including protecting intellectual property and personal data to maintain business continuity in the face of geopolitical or supply chain shocks, while preserving speed, elasticity, and interoperability. And sovereign cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is gaining popularity; spending in this area is forecast to total $80 billion (€68 billion) in 2026, a 35.6% increase from 2025, according to Gartner. As a technology service provider, we're seeing clients coming TCS with four needs in particular. 1. To reduce exposure to extraterritorial laws. With most mid and large-scale enterprises today storing data in off-premise in the cloud, organisations are often relying on international data centres. And as non-EU laws like the US Cloud Act and China's Cybersecurity Law become more numerous and powerful, organisations are increasingly looking to keep all of their data in a single controlled sovereign environment. 2. To adhere to strict EU data residency and processing requirements, and react to increasing pressure from regulations like GDPR, DORA, and other sector-specific policy. Organisations want a simple solution to stay compliant. 3. To manage data and supply chain risks in a tricky geopolitical environment by their data. This often means keeping data closer to home in Europe, but not always. 4. To competing on a global scale with new technologies like AI. Organisations want to control and protect the data environment for their AI solutions. Consequently, sovereign clouds are increasingly seen as critical for sovereign AI solutions. Achieving cohesive design and prioritising a 'Minimum Viable Enterprise' approach When talking with clients, we see sovereign cloud often described as a destination. In practice, it is a set of deliberate design choices working flawlessly in concert with the objective of ensuring meaningful and unambigu...

Today our Packet Pushers team assembles to discuss whether the grass is greener on the NetOps or DevOps side of the telemetry fence. William of The Cloud Gambit, Scott of Total Network Operations, and Ned and Kyler of Day Two DevOps discuss the difficulties and differences of getting telemetry and state from devices across different... Read more »

In this episode, hosts Lois Houston and Nikita Abraham break down the differences between Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-Service, and Software-as-a-Service. The conversation explores how each framework influences control, cost efficiency, expansion, reliability, and contingency planning.   Cloud Tech Jumpstart: https://mylearn.oracle.com/ou/course/cloud-tech-jumpstart/152992 Oracle University Learning Community: https://education.oracle.com/ou-community LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/oracle-university/ X: https://x.com/Oracle_Edu   Special thanks to Arijit Ghosh, Anna Hulkower, Radhika Banka, and the OU Studio Team for helping us create this episode. --------------------------------------- Episode Transcript: 00:00 Hi there! We're hitting rewind for the next few weeks and bringing back some of our most popular episodes. So, sit back and enjoy these highlights from our archive. 00:12 Welcome to the Oracle University Podcast, the first stop on your cloud journey. During this series of informative podcasts, we'll bring you foundational training on the most popular Oracle technologies. Let's get started! 00:38 Nikita: Welcome to the Oracle University Podcast! I'm Nikita Abraham, Team Lead: Editorial Services with Oracle University, and with me is Lois Houston, Director of Innovation Programs. Lois: Hey there! Last week, we spoke about how hypervisors, virtual machines, and containers have transformed data centers. Today, we're moving on to something just as important—the main cloud models that drive modern cloud computing. Nikita: Orlando Gentil, Principal OCI Instructor at Oracle University, joins us once again for part four of our discussion on cloud data centers.  01:14 Lois: Hi Orlando! Glad to have you with us today. Can you walk us through the different types of cloud models?  Orlando: These are commonly categorized into three main service models: Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-Service, and Software-as-a-Service. Let's use the idea of getting around town to understand cloud service models. IaaS is like renting a car. You don't own the car, but you control where it goes, how fast, and when to stop. In cloud terms, the provider gives you the infrastructure—virtual machines, storage, and networking—but you manage everything on top—the OS, middleware, runtime, and application. Thus, it's like using a shuttle service. You bring your bags—your code, pick your destination—your app requirements, but someone else drives and maintains the vehicle. You don't worry about the engine, fuel, or routing planning. That's the platform's job. Your focus stays on development and deployment, not on servers or patching. SaaS is like ordering a taxi. You say where you want to go and everything else is handled for you. It's the full-service experience. In the cloud, SaaS is software UXs over the web—Email, CRM, project management. No infrastructure, no updates, just productivity.  02:45 Nikita: Ok. How do the trade-offs between control and convenience differ across SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS? Orlando: With IaaS, much like renting a car, you gain high control. You are managing components like the operating system, runtime, your applications, and your data. In return, the provider expertly handles the underlying virtual machines, storage, and networking. This model gives you immense flexibility. Moving to PaaS, our shuttle service, you shift to a medium level of control but gain significantly higher convenience. Your primary focus remains on your application code and data. The provider now takes on the heavy lifting of managing the runtime environment, the operating system, the servers themselves, and even the scaling. Finally, SaaS, our taxi service, offers the highest convenience with the lowest control level. Here, your responsibility is essentially just using the application and managing your specific configurations or data within it. The cloud provider manages absolutely everything else—the entire infrastructure, the platform, and the application itself. 04:05 Nikita: One of the top concerns for cloud users is cost optimization. How can we manage this? Orlando: Each cloud service model offers distinct strategies to help you manage and reduce your spending effectively, as well as different factors that drives those costs. For Infrastructure-as-a-Service, where you have more control, optimization largely revolves around smart resource management. This means rightsizing your VMs, ensuring they are not overprovisioned, and actively turning off idle resources when not in use. Leveraging preemptible or spot instances for flexible workloads can also significantly cut costs. Your charges here are directly tied to your compute, storage, and network usage, so efficiency is key. Moving to Platform-as-a-Service, where the platform is managed for you, optimization shifts slightly. Strategies include choosing scalable platforms that can efficiently handle fluctuating demand, opting for consumption-based pricing where available, and diligently optimizing your runtime usage to minimize processing time. Costs in PaaS are typically based on your application usage, runtime hours, and storage consumed. Finally, for Software-as-a-Service where you can consume a ready-to-use application, cost optimization centers on licensing and usage. This involves consolidating tools to avoid redundant subscriptions, selecting usage-based plans if they align better with your needs, and crucially, eliminating any unused license. SaaS costs are generally based on subscription or per user fees. Understanding these nuances is essential for effective cloud financial management.  06:05 Lois: Ok. And what about scalability? How does each model handle the ability to grow and shrink with demand, without needing manual hardware changes? Orlando: How you achieve and manage that scalability varies significantly across our three service models. For Infrastructure-as-a-Service, you have the most direct control over scaling. You can implement manual or auto scaling by adding or removing virtual machines as needed, often leveraging load balancers to distribute traffic. In this model, you configure the scaling policies and parameters based on your specific workload. Moving to Platform-as-a-Service, the scaling becomes more automated and elastic. The platform automatically adjusts resources based on your application's demand, allowing it to seamlessly handle traffic spikes or dips. Here, the provider manages the underlying scaling behavior, freeing you from that operational burden. Finally, with Software-as-a-Service, scalability is largely abstracted and invisible to the user. The application scales automatically in the background, with the entire process fully managed by the provider. As a user, you simply benefit from the application's ability to handle millions of users without ever needing to worry about the infrastructure. Understanding these scaling differences is crucial for selecting the right model for your application's need.  07:45 Join the Oracle University Learning Community and tap into a vibrant network of over 1 million members, including Oracle experts and fellow learners. This dynamic community is the perfect place to grow your skills, connect with likeminded learners, and celebrate your successes. As a MyLearn subscriber, you have access to engage with your fellow learners and participate in activities in the community. Visit community.oracle.com/ou to check things out today!  08:18 Nikita: Welcome back! We've talked about cost optimization and scalability in cloud environments. But what about ensuring availability? How does that work?  Orlando: Availability refers to the ability of a system or service to remain accessible in operational, even in the face of failures or extremely high demand. The approach of achieving and managing availability, and crucially, your role versus the provider's, differs greatly across each model. With Infrastructure-as-a-Service, you have the most direct control over your availability strategy. You will be responsible for designing an architecture that includes redundant VMs, deploying load balancers, and potentially even multi-region setups for disaster recovery. Your specific roles involves designing this architecture and managing your failover process and data backups. The provider's role, in turn, is to deliver the underlying infrastructure with defined service level agreements, SLAs, and health monitoring. For Platform-as-a-Service, the platform itself offers a higher degree of built-in, high availability, and automated failover. While the provider maintains the runtime platform's availability, your role shifts. You need to ensure your application's logic is designed to gracefully handle retries and potential transient failures that might occur. Finally, with Software-as-a-Service, availability is almost entirely handled for you. The provider ensures fully abstracted redundancy and failover behind the scenes. Your role becomes largely minimal, often just involving a specific application's configurations. The provider is entirely responsible for the full application uptime and the underlying high availability infrastructure. Understanding these distinct roles in ensuring availability is essential for setting expectations and designing your cloud strategy efficiently. 10:32 Lois: Building on availability, let's talk Disaster Recovery. Orlando: DR is about ensuring your systems and data can be recovered and brought back online in the event of a significant failure, whether it's a hardware crash, a natural disaster, or even human error. Just like the other aspects, the strategy and responsibilities for DR vary significantly across the cloud service models. For Infrastructure-as-a Service, you have the most direct involvement in your DR strategy. You need to design and execute custom DR plans. This involves leveraging capabilities like multi-region backups, taking VM snapshots, and setting up failover clusters. A real-world example might be using Oracle Cloud compute to replicate your VMs to a secondary region with block volume backups to ensure business continuity. Essentially, you manage your entire DR process here. Moving to Platform-as-a-Service, disaster recovery becomes a shared responsibility. The platform itself offers built-in redundancy and provide APIs for backup and restore. Your role will be to configure the application-level recovery and ensure your data is backed up appropriately, while the provider handles the underlying infrastructure's DR capability. An example could be Azure app service, Oracle APEX applications, where your apps are redeployed from source control like Git after an incident. Finally, with Software-as-a-Service, disaster recovery is almost entirely vendor managed. The provider takes full responsibility, offering features like auto replication and continuous backup, often backed by specific Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) SLAs. A common example is how Microsoft 365 or Salesforce manage user data backups in restoration. It's all handled seamlessly by the provider without your direct intervention. Understanding these different approaches to DR is crucial for defining your own business continuity plans in the cloud. 12:59 Lois: Thank you, Orlando, for this insightful discussion. To recap, we spoke about the three main cloud models: IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, and how each one offers a different mix of control and convenience, impacting cost, scalability, availability, and recovery.  Nikita: Yeah, hopefully this helps you pick the right cloud solution for your needs. If you want to learn more about the topics we discussed today, head over to mylearn.oracle.com and search for the Cloud Tech Jumpstart course. In our next episode, we'll take a close look at the essentials of networking. Until then, this is Nikita Abraham… Lois: And Lois Houston, signing off! 13:39 That's all for this episode of the Oracle University Podcast. If you enjoyed listening, please click Subscribe to get all the latest episodes. We'd also love it if you would take a moment to rate and review us on your podcast app. See you again on the next episode of the Oracle University Podcast.

By Doug Green “Recovery is only the last line of defense.” That comment from Rick Hebly, Senior Director of Platform Marketing at Acronis, captures the larger strategy behind Acronis Cyber Frame. This is not simply a new infrastructure platform. It is Acronis making a clear move to help MSPs and service providers build their own Partner Cloud — and keep ownership of the customer relationship. In a recent Technology Reseller News podcast, I spoke with Hebly about the launch of Acronis Cyber Frame and why Acronis believes service providers need a more profitable, reliable and protected way to deliver infrastructure-as-a-service. The key idea is control. For many MSPs, the cloud opportunity has too often meant reselling someone else's infrastructure, under someone else's brand, with someone else owning much of the customer experience. Cyber Frame changes that equation by giving service providers a way to deliver IaaS under their own relationship, their own service model and their own margin structure. Hebly explained that Acronis has evolved over the past 23 years from backup and recovery into a broader cyber protection company. The company moved from traditional software delivery into cloud platforms, then into a managed service provider model with multi-tenant delivery from data centers around the world. The next major transition, he said, was from data protection to cyber protection. That evolution matters because infrastructure is no longer just about compute, storage and networking. For MSPs, the opportunity is to create a cloud offering that is protected from the start, easier to manage and aligned with the way service providers actually go to market. Acronis Cyber Frame brings virtual machines, storage, networking, backup, disaster recovery, security, threat protection and management into a single platform. Rather than forcing MSPs to assemble multiple tools and vendors, Cyber Frame gives them a more unified foundation for delivering infrastructure services. The larger message is that MSPs do not have to surrender the cloud relationship to hyperscalers or legacy infrastructure providers. With Cyber Frame, Acronis is positioning the service provider as the center of the customer relationship — not just the reseller, but the trusted operator of the customer's cloud environment. That may be the most important part of the launch. Cyber Frame is about more than IaaS. It is about helping MSPs create their own Partner Cloud, protect it by default, and build recurring revenue around infrastructure they can own, manage and monetize. Learn more at: https://www.acronis.com/

Today’s headline news for Canadian IT solution providers: Acronis has launched Cyber Frame, a new hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform built specifically for managed service providers. The platform allows MSPs to build and deliver infrastructure services with native integration into Acronis’ cyber protection and remote monitoring and management (RMM) tools. Acronis says it is designed to give service providers an alternative to legacy virtualization and hyperscaler cost pressures, offering better margin control and options for both fully hosted and partner-hosted deployments. Citrix has introduced Citrix Platform Flex, a new persona-based secure access model intended to help organizations move away from static, one-size-fits-all IT delivery. The new platform is built to align IT resources more closely with evolving business needs, delivering secure access, managed services, and observability with more flexible and predictable pricing. It acknowledges that different worker profiles require vastly different access parameters in a modern hybrid environment. Upwind has launched its new AI Agentic Pack, adding agent-driven capabilities to its cloud security platform. The tools are designed to help security teams investigate threats, validate active exposures, and prioritize remediation, leaning into the growing industry trend of using autonomous agents to compress the window between threat discovery and response. Nerdio vice president of MSP sales Will Ominsky warned in a Redmond Channel Partner interview today that MSPs who figure out how to monetize AI by the end of 2026 will grab massive market share. He noted that partners who only experiment with AI internally—without building client-facing, revenue-generating AI practices—will be left behind in the coming wave of SMB adoption. Boomi and Red Hat have announced a strategic collaboration to deliver an integrated stack for deploying agentic AI at scale. The partnership combines Boomi’s Agentstudio with Red Hat AI, providing organizations with a framework to orchestrate AI workflows securely without losing control of their data governance or allowing cloud consumption costs to spiral. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is reportedly scrutinizing Instructure after a massive ransomware attack disrupted its Canvas online learning platform. The breach highlights the growing vulnerability of critical SaaS infrastructure and the widespread supply chain impact when platforms are targeted during peak usage periods, such as university finals week. Canadian cybersecurity provider Plurilock has announced CAD $1.13 million in new critical services contracts. The wins reflect continued momentum for the AI-native security firm as it expands its footprint across both public and private sector environments, capitalizing on the growing need for identity-centric security. [powerpresss] Read Full Transcript Welcome to The Buzz from ChannelBuzz.ca, I’m Robert Dutt, today is Thursday, May 14, 2026, and here’s what’s happening in the channel today. Acronis has launched Cyber Frame, a new hyperconverged infrastructure and infrastructure-as-a-service platform built specifically for managed service providers. The launch comes at a critical time for the channel, as many service providers are actively seeking alternatives to legacy virtualization platforms following recent industry shakeups and pricing model changes. Cyber Frame allows MSPs to build and deliver infrastructure services with native, seamless integration into Acronis’ existing cyber protection and remote monitoring and management tools. Rather than dealing with the unpredictable costs of hyperscale public clouds or the complexity of managing disparate vendor stacks, MSPs can use Cyber Frame to consolidate their service delivery. Acronis says the platform is designed to give service providers significantly better margin control and simplified management. It offers flexible deployment options, allowing partners to choose between a fully hosted model managed by Acronis, or a partner-hosted deployment running on the MSP’s own hardware in their local data center. By combining compute, storage, networking, and security into a single unified platform, Acronis is positioning Cyber Frame as a way for MSPs to scale their infrastructure offerings profitably while maintaining the tight security posture that modern SMB clients demand. Citrix has introduced Citrix Platform Flex, a new persona-based secure access model intended to help organizations move away from static, one-size-fits-all IT delivery. In today’s hybrid work environment, the access requirements for a call center employee, a traveling executive, and a remote software engineer are vastly different. Citrix built Platform Flex to recognize these distinctions, allowing IT teams to align resources, security controls, and application delivery specifically to the varying needs of different worker profiles. The new platform delivers secure application access, managed services, and comprehensive observability under a model designed for more flexible and predictable pricing. By shifting away from rigid licensing structures that often force companies to over-provision resources for basic users, Citrix aims to help enterprises optimize their cloud and infrastructure spending. Platform Flex also incorporates advanced analytics and security policies that adapt in real-time based on user behavior and location. For channel partners, this persona-driven approach provides a clear framework to help enterprise customers rationalize their IT investments, simplify the management of distributed workforces, and ensure that security protocols do not impede productivity for end users who require high-performance access to specialized applications. Upwind has launched its new AI Agentic Pack, adding autonomous, agent-driven capabilities to its cloud security platform. As cloud environments grow increasingly complex and security operations centers face unprecedented alert fatigue, the cybersecurity industry is rapidly shifting toward agentic AI to help manage the load. Upwind’s new tools are specifically designed to help security teams autonomously investigate threats, validate whether theoretical vulnerabilities are actually exposed to active exploitation, and prioritize remediation efforts based on real-world risk. Instead of simply generating more alerts for human analysts to sift through, the Agentic Pack leverages artificial intelligence to actively investigate the root cause of an incident, map the attack path across cloud infrastructure, and propose actionable fixes. This launch leans heavily into the growing necessity of using autonomous agents to drastically compress the window between threat discovery and response. With malicious actors utilizing AI to accelerate their attacks, defenders require matching speed to counter them. For managed security service providers, Upwind’s agentic capabilities offer a pathway to scale their operations, handle a higher volume of telemetry without adding headcount, and provide faster threat containment for their clients. In brief: Nerdio vice president of MSP sales Will Ominsky warned in a Redmond Channel Partner interview today that MSPs who figure out how to monetize AI by the end of 2026 will grab massive market share.  Boomi and Red Hat have announced a strategic collaboration to deliver an integrated stack for deploying agentic AI at scale.  The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is reportedly scrutinizing Instructure after a massive ransomware attack disrupted its Canvas online learning platform.  And Canadian cybersecurity provider Plurilock has announced 1.13 million dollars in new critical services contracts.  Later today on in the channel, we’re talking eCrime Reports and Threat Intelligence with Camerous Tousley and Pedro Kertzman of ESET. And if you missed it yesterday, check out my conversation with Auvik’s Steve Petryschuk on the gap between MSPs’ expectation around AI, and the reality they have realized to date. That’s how we’re seeing the headlines today. I’m Robert Dutt for ChannelBuzz.ca, thanks for listening. Have a great day.

Eyvonne and William sit down with Joseph Nicholson, a Network Operations Engineer with NTT DATA, to share how public speaking transformed his career and technical experience. Joseph went from a terrifying ten minute lightning talk at AutoCon 2 to presenting 45-minute sessions at conferences like NANOG. Together they discuss how conversations in conference halls influenced... Read more »

Eyvonne Sharp and William Collins speak with Sif Baksh, Principal Solutions Architect at Tines, to discuss the power of automation. Sif shares some personal stories of how he has been able to use automation to innovate and modernize networking operations. They also discuss the importance of learning AI and using it as a tool, how... Read more »

Vibe coding: give AI a description of what you want, the model writes the code, you ship it, and then you hope for the best. It works great for side projects, but it can fall apart the moment you point an AI agent at production infrastructure. Today, William and Eyvonne sit down with John Capobianco,... Read more »

IAAS Wanna Talks is back with a conversation that hits closer to home than you'd expect. In this episode, "Our Water, Our Shared Responsibility," we're unpacking something we all take for granted, yes, water. Did you know Indonesia holds 6% of the world's freshwater reserve, yet 27 million people still lack access to clean drinking water? Or that a single plate of rice you leave unfinished carries hundreds of liters of water that farmers fought drought to produce? From the irony of a tropical country facing water scarcity, to the daily habits in our dorm rooms that silently drain more than we realize — this one will make you think twice before leaving the tap running. Because the problem was never really about the water. It's about awareness. And it starts with us.

William Collins and Eyvonne Sharp invite Skylar Sands, Senior Automation Engineer at World Wide Technology, to discuss what it means to integrate AI into the daily workflow in a meaningful way. Together they break down the shift in the automation engineer's role now that AI can instantly generate the “toolkit” of Python, Ansible, and Bash,... Read more »

In this sponsored episode, FluidCloud co-founders Sharad Kumar and Harshit Omar sit down with William and Eyvonne to discuss how FluidCloud tackles multi-cloud portability. They detail how FluidCloud acts as a cloning platform that scans an existing cloud or VMware environment, extracts complex infrastructure configurations (including compute and storage, as well as firewall rules and... Read more »

We break down Oracle's Q3 FY2026 earnings, highlighting 44% year-over-year cloud revenue growth to $8.9B, driven by IaaS at $4.9B up 84%, while legacy software growth remains slower. We hash over Oracle's remaining performance obligations (RPO) of $553B, up 325% year over year, and discusses how heavy data center capital expenditures are pressuring free cash flow (over $11B negative) and contributing to slower constant-currency EPS growth (16%) versus revenue.Finally review guidance, including a $90B revenue outlook for FY2027 implying 34% growth, and share expectations for 30%+ growth with a longer-term view that Oracle could approach $200B in annual revenue by 2028. Join us on Discord with Semiconductor Insider, sign up on our website: www.chipstockinvestor.com/membershipSupercharge your analysis with AI! Get 15% of your membership with our special link here: https://fiscal.ai/csi/Sign Up For Our Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/b1228c12f284/sign-up-landing-page-short-formChapters:Chapters:00:00 Oracle Earnings 01:58 Q3 Highlights RPO Surge03:08 Cloud Segments Explained03:39 EPS Versus Revenue04:50 Guidance And Outlook06:44 200B Revenue Thesis08:28 CapEx And Cash Flow10:44 Debt Raise And Balance SheetIf you found this video useful, please make sure to like and subscribe!*********************************************************Affiliate links that are sprinkled in throughout this video. If something catches your eye and you decide to buy it, we might earn a little coffee money. Thanks for helping us (Kasey) fuel our caffeine addiction!Content in this video is for general information or entertainment only and is not specific or individual investment advice. Forecasts and information presented may not develop as predicted and there is no guarantee any strategies presented will be successful. All investing involves risk, and you could lose some or all of your principal. #oracle #ORCLstock #chipstockinvestor #datacenters #AI infrastructureNick and Kasey own shares of Oracle

The tech industry is split between two fantasies  – that AI writes production software while you get coffee, and that everything AI touches is slop. The reality is messier and more interesting: AI tools are force multipliers for people who already know what good looks like, and an expertise amplifier disguised as an easy button. ... Read more »

För några år sedan, när "molnet" var nytt, var det som rena rama guldruschen. Allt skulle till molnet och allt skulle bli bra där. Men nu, år 2026, så kan Mattias Jadesköld och Erik Zalitis konstatera att det publika molnet har mognat. Är det en teknisk mognad? Eller regulatorisk mognad? Eller kanske är det vi användare som har en mer mogen syn? Molnet som levereras mest från Microsoft Azure, AWS och Google Cloud med hjälp av IaaS, PaaS och SaaS har varit debatterat i säkerhetsvärlden länge. Men hur ser det ut idag? I dagens avsnitt diskuteras bland annat Skatteverket, Bring Your Own Keys, Schrems-domarna och en hel del massa saker. Nintendo faktiskt också! Läs mer här: https://www.itsakerhetspodden.se/321-ar-molnet-pa-vag-in-i-en-ny-mognadsfas/

Send a textStop guessing which software to trust. We break down a clear, repeatable path to evaluate commercial off-the-shelf tools, open source projects, custom third‑party builds, and cloud services so you can pass CISSP Domain 8.4 with confidence and protect your environment in the real world. We start with exam-winning tactics—how to slow down, read for intent, and think like a manager—then move into concrete practices that tame software risk without stalling delivery.You'll hear how to interrogate vendor claims, separate real certifications from marketing fluff, and judge patch cadences and incident response maturity. We dig into open source realities: vetting contributors, scanning dependencies against the NVD, building and maintaining an SBOM, and avoiding abandoned projects that explode under pressure. For third-party development, we outline what strong contracts look like—SLAs with teeth, security clauses, indemnity—and the proof you should see: code audits, SAST/DAST, penetration tests, and meaningful logging around integrations.Cloud isn't a shortcut; it's a shift in responsibility. We map the questions that matter for SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS: data protection, tenant isolation, hypervisor hardening, API security, and event visibility into your SIEM. Then we stitch it all into an evaluation workflow you can run every time: functional fit, vendor validation, layered security assessment, compliance and licensing review, sandbox integration testing, and a deployment plan that defines fix‑forward and rollback before anything hits production. Wrap it with monitoring, periodic reassessment, and documentation that procurement, IT, and security can actually use, and you've built a trustworthy software supply chain.If this helped you think sharper about software risk and the CISSP exam, subscribe, share it with a teammate, and leave a quick review telling us your top vendor vetting question. Your feedback shapes future episodes.Gain exclusive access to 360 FREE CISSP Practice Questions at FreeCISSPQuestions.com and have them delivered directly to your inbox! Don't miss this valuable opportunity to strengthen your CISSP exam preparation and boost your chances of certification success. Join now and start your journey toward CISSP mastery today!

William and Eyvonne tackle the biggest AI stories of early 2026. They dissect Matt Schumer’s viral “Something Big is Happening” essay – agreeing professionals need to skill up now while pushing back on the doomsday framing with real-world examples from engineering disciplines. The conversation takes a fascinating turn as Eyvonne draws a parallel between AI-assisted... Read more »

We’ve spent a decade figuring out how to (more or less) securely authenticate humans. Now AI agents are crashing the party, and identity just got a whole lot more complicated. Today we sit down with Dan Moore, Senior Director of CIAM Strategy and Identity Standards at FusionAuth, to explore the collision course between artificial intelligence... Read more »

In this episode, we sit down with Adam Zimman, author and VC advisor, to explore the world of progressive delivery and why shipping software is only the beginning. Adam shares his fascinating journey through tech—from his early days as a fire juggler to leadership roles at EMC, VMware, GitHub, and LaunchDarkly – and how those... Read more »

The industry has pivoted from scripting to automation to orchestration – and now to systems that can reason. Today we explore what AI agents mean for infrastructure with Chris Wade, Co-Founder and CTO of Itential. We also dive into the brownfield reality, the potential for vendor-specific LLMs trained on proprietary knowledge, and advice for the... Read more »

Episode 49 - Irrigation as a Service: A New Paradigm In our first episode of 2026, host Frances Hayes discusses a unique approach to supporting access to irrigation for smallholder farmers with Erin Anders, Senior Program Manager at the Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute.   Farmers of all sizes in all parts of the world need access to water, inputs and financing to grow food. Irrigation as a Service (IaaS) is an emerging business model to expand irrigation access, especially to smallholder farmers, and ultimately grow more food.   Irrigation as a Service (IaaS) has a broad definition but generally refers to the concept of third-party providers of irrigation in which the farmers do not own or maintain the equipment. The companies that arise under this business model can look very different and employ a variety of methods. However, they all unlock vital irrigation access to millions of smallholder farmers globally without the burden of high upfront costs.   Erin and her team have been working closely with and supporting entrepreneurs across the globe who are pioneering and providing this essential irrigation as a service, including those featured in the DWFI's recent series on IaaS. In this episode, she gives an insider's look at the challenges and potential of this growing movement.

Lindsey Burke returns to Freedom to Learn to discuss the Trump administration's plans to “return education to the states.” Lindsey, who serves as Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Programs at the U.S. Department of Education (ED), discusses the Department's origin story, what it does and does not do, and the pernicious impact of […]

professorjrod@gmail.comIn this episode of Technology Tap: CompTIA Study Guide, we dive deep into cloud security fundamentals, perfect for those preparing for the CompTIA Security+ exam. Join our study group as we explore the shifting security landscape from locked server rooms to identity-based perimeters and data distributed across regions. This practical, Security+-ready guide connects architecture choices to real risks and concrete defenses, offering valuable IT certification tips and tech exam prep strategies. Whether you're focused on your CompTIA exam or looking to enhance your IT skills development, this episode provides essential insights to help you succeed in technology education and advance your career.We start by grounding the why: elasticity, pay-per-use costs, and resilience pushed organizations toward public, private, community, and hybrid clouds. From there, we map service models—SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, and XaaS—and the responsibilities each one assigns. You'll hear how thin clients reduce device risk, why a transit gateway can become a blast radius, and where serverless trims surface area while complicating visibility. Misunderstanding the shared responsibility model remains the leading cause of breaches, so we spell out exactly what providers secure and what you must own.Identity becomes the new perimeter, so we detail IAM guardrails: least privilege, no shared admins, MFA on every privileged account, short-lived credentials, and continuous auditing. We cover encryption in all three states with AES-256, TLS 1.3, HSMs, and customer-managed keys, then add CASB for SaaS control and SASE to bring ZTNA, FWaaS, and DLP to the edge where users actually work. Virtualization and containers deliver speed and density but expand the attack surface: VM escapes, snapshot theft, and poisoned images require hardened hypervisors, signed artifacts, private registries, secret management, and runtime policy. Hybrid and multi-cloud introduce inconsistent IAM and fragmented logging—centralized identity, unified SIEM, CSPM, and infrastructure-as-code guardrails bring discipline back.We wrap with the patterns attackers exploit—public storage exposure, stolen API keys, unencrypted backups, and supply chain compromises—and the operating principles that stop them: zero trust, verification over assumption, and automation that responds at machine speed. Stick around for four rapid Security+ practice questions to test your skills and cement the concepts.If this helped you study or sharpen your cloud strategy, follow and subscribe, share it with a teammate, and leave a quick review telling us which control you'll deploy first.Support the showArt By Sarah/DesmondMusic by Joakim KarudLittle chacha ProductionsJuan Rodriguez can be reached atTikTok @ProfessorJrodProfessorJRod@gmail.com@Prof_JRodInstagram ProfessorJRod

In this year-end episode, William and Eyvonne recap their experiences at AutoCon 4 in Austin, Texas. They discuss the conference’s new multi-track format, including Eyvonne’s presentation in the leadership track on why technical projects fail. The conversation dives into how AI tools like Google Gemini can augment – not replace – human creativity, from research... Read more »

In this sponsored episode recorded live at AutoCon 4 in Austin, we sit down with Peter Sprygada, Chief Architect at Itential, to discuss Itential’s on-stage announcement of FlowAI. Peter shares his journey from network engineering skeptic to AI advocate, explaining how Itential securely connects AI agents to infrastructure with enterprise-grade governance and traceability. We dive... Read more »

Show notesMicrosoft IgniteOpening KeynoteWhat Exactly is Microsoft's Copilot Frontier Programme? by Ben Lee Introducing Microsoft Agent FactoryWork IQFabric IQ Foundry IQMicrosoft, NVIDIA and Anthropic announce strategic partnershipsThe New UI for Enterprise AI - Microsoft DesignInside the new Power Apps: The future of app developmentBRK323: Power Apps: Reimagine the human-agent collaboration by Miti Joshi, Evan Lew, and Claudio RomanoAutomate web and desktop apps with computer use (CUA) (preview) BRK1742: Advanced Agent Development with Copilot Studio by Scott DurowBRK140: End-to-End migration of applications with AI Agents to IaaS and PaaS by Ashish BabbarBe sure to subscribe so you don't miss a single episode of Power Platform BOOST!Thank you for buying us a coffee: buymeacoffee.comPodcast home page: https://powerplatformboost.comEmail: hello@powerplatformboost.comFollow us!Twitter: https://twitter.com/powerplatboost Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/powerplatformboost/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/powerplatboost/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090444536122 Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@powerplatboost

(The Center Square) – President Donald Trump took another step toward fulfilling his promise to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education. Federal officials announced that “six new interagency agreements (IAAs) with four agencies to break up the federal education bureaucracy, ensure efficient delivery of funded programs, activities, and move closer to fulfilling the President's promise to return education to the states,” in a news release from the Department of Education. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Recorded live at AutoCon4, William Collins and Eyvonne Sharp join forces with John Capobianco for some in the moment thoughts and reflections on the AutoCon experience – from the in-person connections to the workshops to the stage presentations.  John gives us the inside story on his very own workshop and the latest version releases in... Read more »

(The Center Square) – President Donald Trump took another step toward fulfilling his promise to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education. Federal officials announced that “six new interagency agreements (IAAs) with four agencies to break up the federal education bureaucracy, ensure efficient delivery of funded programs, activities, and move closer to fulfilling the President's promise to return education to the states,” in a news release from the Department of Education.Support this podcast: https://secure.anedot.com/franklin-news-foundation/ce052532-b1e4-41c4-945c-d7ce2f52c38a?source_code=xxxxxx Read more: https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_14bd1737-987c-4892-b0f8-4820d490cf2a.html Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Joseph Avanzato is the Security Operations and Forensics Group Leader at Varonis. In this episode, he joins host Paul John Spaulding to discuss the common tactics attackers exploit and mistakes made by enterprises that lead breaches, as well as how Varonis is uniquely positioned to help public and private customers around the world investigate, contain, and evict attackers from their network. This episode is brought to you by Varonis, whose AI-powered data security platform secures your data at scale – across IaaS, SaaS, and hybrid cloud environments. To learn more about our sponsor, visit https://www.Varonis.com.

Today we delve into the tech expertise deficit and why technical depth and decades of doing the work matter more than social media followers and content creation hype. Our guest is Russ White, engineer, author, teacher, and certification developer. We begin with current events in AI, and then investigate the differences between career and influence... Read more »

Send us a textQuantum threats aren't waiting politely on the horizon, and neither should we. We kick off with Signal's bold move to deploy post-quantum encryption, unpacking the “belt and suspenders” approach that blends classical cryptography with quantum-resistant algorithms. No jargon traps—just clear takeaways on why this matters for privacy, resilience, and the pressure it puts on other messaging platforms to evolve. We point you to smart reads from Ars Technica and Bruce Schneier that make the technical guts approachable and actionable.From there, we switch gears into a focused CISSP Domain 8 walkthrough: how to weave security into every phase of the software development lifecycle. We talk practical integration across waterfall, agile, and DevOps; show why change management, continuous monitoring, and application-aware incident response are non-negotiable; and explain how maturity models like CMMI and BSIMM help teams move from reactive to repeatable. We also break down the developer's toolbox—secure language choices, vetted libraries with SCA, hardened runtimes, and IDE plugins that surface issues in real time—so teams can ship faster without trading away safety.Speed meets rigor in the CI/CD pipeline, where shift-left security comes alive with SAST, DAST, and SOAR-driven checks. We cover repository hygiene, secret scanning, and how to measure effectiveness with audit trails and risk analysis that map code issues to business impact. You'll get a clear view of third-party risk across COTS and open source, the shared responsibility model for SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS, and the daily practices that keep APIs from leaking data: least privilege, strict authorization, input validation, and rate limiting. We close with software-defined security—policies as code—bringing consistency, versioning, and automation to your defenses. Subscribe, share with a teammate who owns your pipeline, and leave a review to tell us the next Domain 8 topic you want us to deep-dive.Gain exclusive access to 360 FREE CISSP Practice Questions at FreeCISSPQuestions.com and have them delivered directly to your inbox! Don't miss this valuable opportunity to strengthen your CISSP exam preparation and boost your chances of certification success. Join now and start your journey toward CISSP mastery today!

Join William Collins and Evyonne Sharp as they catch up on all things AI. They discuss the AI bubble and how it relates to venture capital, stock, and company evaluations. They talk about the AI experience for the average person, the adoption rate of AI tools, and how the AI infrastructure buildout might affect the... Read more »

In this episode, hosts Lois Houston and Nikita Abraham, along with Principal OCI Instructor Orlando Gentil, break down the differences between Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-Service, and Software-as-a-Service.   The conversation explores how each framework influences control, cost efficiency, expansion, reliability, and contingency planning.   Cloud Tech Jumpstart: https://mylearn.oracle.com/ou/course/cloud-tech-jumpstart/152992 Oracle University Learning Community: https://education.oracle.com/ou-community LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/oracle-university/ X: https://x.com/Oracle_Edu   Special thanks to Arijit Ghosh, David Wright, Kris-Ann Nansen, Radhika Banka, and the OU Studio Team for helping us create this episode. ----------------------------------------------------- Episode Transcript: 00:00 Welcome to the Oracle University Podcast, the first stop on your cloud journey. During this series of informative podcasts, we'll bring you foundational training on the most popular Oracle technologies. Let's get started! 00:25 Nikita: Welcome to the Oracle University Podcast! I'm Nikita Abraham, Team Lead: Editorial Services with Oracle University, and with me is Lois Houston, Director of Innovation Programs. Lois: Hey there! Last week, we spoke about how hypervisors, virtual machines, and containers have transformed data centers. Today, we're moving on to something just as important—the main cloud models that drive modern cloud computing. Nikita: Orlando Gentil, Principal OCI Instructor at Oracle University, joins us once again for part four of our discussion on cloud data centers.  01:01 Lois: Hi Orlando! Glad to have you with us today. Can you walk us through the different types of cloud models?  Orlando: These are commonly categorized into three main service models: Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-Service, and Software-as-a-Service. Let's use the idea of getting around town to understand cloud service models. IaaS is like renting a car. You don't own the car, but you control where it goes, how fast, and when to stop. In cloud terms, the provider gives you the infrastructure—virtual machines, storage, and networking—but you manage everything on top—the OS, middleware, runtime, and application. Thus, it's like using a shuttle service. You bring your bags—your code, pick your destination—your app requirements, but someone else drives and maintains the vehicle. You don't worry about the engine, fuel, or routing planning. That's the platform's job. Your focus stays on development and deployment, not on servers or patching. SaaS is like ordering a taxi. You say where you want to go and everything else is handled for you. It's the full-service experience. In the cloud, SaaS is software UXs over the web—Email, CRM, project management. No infrastructure, no updates, just productivity.  02:32 Nikita: Ok. How do the trade-offs between control and convenience differ across SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS? Orlando: With IaaS, much like renting a car, you gain high control. You are managing components like the operating system, runtime, your applications, and your data. In return, the provider expertly handles the underlying virtual machines, storage, and networking. This model gives you immense flexibility. Moving to PaaS, our shuttle service, you shift to a medium level of control but gain significantly higher convenience. Your primary focus remains on your application code and data. The provider now takes on the heavy lifting of managing the runtime environment, the operating system, the servers themselves, and even the scaling. Finally, SaaS, our taxi service, offers the highest convenience with the lowest control level. Here, your responsibility is essentially just using the application and managing your specific configurations or data within it. The cloud provider manages absolutely everything else—the entire infrastructure, the platform, and the application itself. 03:52 Nikita: One of the top concerns for cloud users is cost optimization. How can we manage this? Orlando: Each cloud service model offers distinct strategies to help you manage and reduce your spending effectively, as well as different factors that drives those costs. For Infrastructure-as-a-Service, where you have more control, optimization largely revolves around smart resource management. This means rightsizing your VMs, ensuring they are not overprovisioned, and actively turning off idle resources when not in use. Leveraging preemptible or spot instances for flexible workloads can also significantly cut costs. Your charges here are directly tied to your compute, storage, and network usage, so efficiency is key. Moving to Platform-as-a-Service, where the platform is managed for you, optimization shifts slightly. Strategies include choosing scalable platforms that can efficiently handle fluctuating demand, opting for consumption-based pricing where available, and diligently optimizing your runtime usage to minimize processing time. Costs in PaaS are typically based on your application usage, runtime hours, and storage consumed. Finally, for Software-as-a-Service where you can consume a ready-to-use application, cost optimization centers on licensing and usage. This involves consolidating tools to avoid redundant subscriptions, selecting usage-based plans if they align better with your needs, and crucially, eliminating any unused license. SaaS costs are generally based on subscription or per user fees. Understanding these nuances is essential for effective cloud financial management.  05:52 Lois: Ok. And what about scalability? How does each model handle the ability to grow and shrink with demand, without needing manual hardware changes? Orlando: How you achieve and manage that scalability varies significantly across our three service models. For Infrastructure-as-a-Service, you have the most direct control over scaling. You can implement manual or auto scaling by adding or removing virtual machines as needed, often leveraging load balancers to distribute traffic. In this model, you configure the scaling policies and parameters based on your specific workload. Moving to Platform-as-a-Service, the scaling becomes more automated and elastic. The platform automatically adjusts resources based on your application's demand, allowing it to seamlessly handle traffic spikes or dips. Here, the provider manages the underlying scaling behavior, freeing you from that operational burden. Finally, with Software-as-a-Service, scalability is largely abstracted and invisible to the user. The application scales automatically in the background, with the entire process fully managed by the provider. As a user, you simply benefit from the application's ability to handle millions of users without ever needing to worry about the infrastructure. Understanding these scaling differences is crucial for selecting the right model for your application's need.  07:34 Join the Oracle University Learning Community and tap into a vibrant network of over 1 million members, including Oracle experts and fellow learners. This dynamic community is the perfect place to grow your skills, connect with likeminded learners, and celebrate your successes. As a MyLearn subscriber, you have access to engage with your fellow learners and participate in activities in the community. Visit community.oracle.com/ou to check things out today!  08:05 Nikita: Welcome back! We've talked about cost optimization and scalability in cloud environments. But what about ensuring availability? How does that work?  Orlando: Availability refers to the ability of a system or service to remain accessible in operational, even in the face of failures or extremely high demand. The approach of achieving and managing availability, and crucially, your role versus the provider's differs greatly across each model. With Infrastructure-as-a-Service, you have the most direct control over your availability strategy. You will be responsible for designing an architecture that includes redundant VMs, deploying load balancers, and potentially even multi-region setups for disaster recovery. Your specific roles involves designing this architecture and managing your failover process and data backups. The provider's role, in turn, is to deliver the underlying infrastructure with defined service level agreements, SLAs, and health monitoring. For Platform-as-a-Service, the platform itself offers a higher degree of built-in, high availability, and automated failover. While the provider maintains the runtime platform's availability, your role shifts. You need to ensure your application's logic is designed to gracefully handle retries and potential transient failures that might occur. Finally, with Software-as-a-Service, availability is almost entirely handled for you. The provider ensures fully abstracted redundancy and failover behind the scenes. Your role becomes largely minimal, often just involving a specific application's configurations. The provider is entirely responsible for the full application uptime and the underlying high availability infrastructure. Understanding these distinct roles in ensuring availability is essential for setting expectations and designing your cloud strategy efficiently. 10:19 Lois: Building on availability, let's talk Disaster Recovery. Orlando: DR is about ensuring your systems and data can be recovered and brought back online in the event of a significant failure, whether it's a hardware crash, a natural disaster, or even human error. Just like the other aspects, the strategy and responsibilities for DR vary significantly across the cloud service models. For Infrastructure-as-a Service, you have the most direct involvement in your DR strategy. You need to design and execute custom DR plans. This involves leveraging capabilities like multi-region backups, taking VM snapshots, and setting up failover clusters. A real-world example might be using Oracle Cloud compute to replicate your VMs to a secondary region with block volume backups to ensure business continuity. Essentially, you manage your entire DR process here. Moving to Platform-as-a-Service, disaster recovery becomes a shared responsibility. The platform itself offers built-in redundancy and provide APIs for backup and restore. Your role will be to configure the application-level recovery and ensure your data is backed up appropriately, while the provider handles the underlying infrastructure's DR capability. An example could be Azure app service, Oracle APEX applications, where your apps are redeployed from source control like Git after an incident. Finally, with Software-as-a-Service, disaster recovery is almost entirely vendor managed. The provider takes full responsibility, offering features like auto replication and continuous backup, often backed by specific Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) SLAs. A common example is how Microsoft 365 or Salesforce manage user data backups in restoration. It's all handled seamlessly by the provider without your direct intervention. Understanding these different approaches to DR is crucial for defining your own business continuity plans in the cloud. 12:46 Lois: Thank you, Orlando, for this insightful discussion. To recap, we spoke about the three main cloud models: IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, and how each one offers a different mix of control and convenience, impacting cost, scalability, availability, and recovery.  Nikita: Yeah, hopefully this helps you pick the right cloud solution for your needs. If you want to learn more about the topics we discussed today, head over to mylearn.oracle.com and search for the Cloud Tech Jumpstart course. In our next episode, we'll take a close look at the essentials of networking. Until then, this is Nikita Abraham… Lois: And Lois Houston, signing off! 13:26 That's all for this episode of the Oracle University Podcast. If you enjoyed listening, please click Subscribe to get all the latest episodes. We'd also love it if you would take a moment to rate and review us on your podcast app. See you again on the next episode of the Oracle University Podcast.

Michael Reid went from studying aerospace engineering to becoming CEO at Megaport, a global network-as-a-service platform. How did he get there, and what can we learn from his journey? We walk his career path, including a pivotal role scaling ThousandEyes from 74 million to over 2.4x ARR post-acquisition, and how those experiences shaped his approach to... Read more »

professorjrod@gmail.comCloud perimeters are fading, identities are multiplying, and threats move faster than patches. We dive into the real mechanics of securing a hybrid world—mapping cloud deployment choices, clarifying shared responsibility across SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS, and showing how Zero Trust reshapes defenses around identity, posture, and context. It's a practical tour from first principles to field-tested patterns, grounded by case studies like Capital One and SolarWinds and anchored in frameworks such as NIST SP 800-207.We start by decoding public, private, hosted private, community, and hybrid models, then connect those choices to risk: multi-tenant isolation, data flows between zones, and the observability challenges of decentralization. From there, we move into reliability engineering—high availability, geo-redundancy, disaster recovery—and the role Kubernetes plays in scaling securely, with a frank look at container pitfalls and how least privilege and image scanning reduce blast radius. Automation takes center stage with infrastructure as code, autoscaling, and software-defined networking, plus how SASE brings secure access to a remote-first workforce without bolting on more complexity.Embedded systems and IoT get a hard look: scarce memory, weak encryption, default credentials, and unpatchable firmware that turns convenience into risk. We offer a simple playbook—segment aggressively, enforce egress controls, rotate credentials, and plan device lifecycles—to stop small sensors from causing big outages. Zero Trust ties it all together: never trust, always verify; microsegment to prevent lateral movement; and evaluate every access request through identity, device health, and real-time signals. Along the way, we weave in Security+ exam-style questions so you can test your knowledge and lock in the fundamentals.If this helped you see your cloud and Zero Trust roadmap more clearly, follow the show, share it with a teammate, and leave a quick review. Got certified recently or put these controls into practice? Email professorjrod@gmail.com—we'd love to shout you out on a future episode.Support the showIf you want to help me with my research please e-mail me.Professorjrod@gmail.comIf you want to join my question/answer zoom class e-mail me at Professorjrod@gmail.comArt By Sarah/DesmondMusic by Joakim KarudLittle chacha ProductionsJuan Rodriguez can be reached atTikTok @ProfessorJrodProfessorJRod@gmail.com@Prof_JRodInstagram ProfessorJRod

Network automation has a data problem. Traditional tools may hit limitations when managing complex infrastructure relationships. We explore how OpsMill’s InfraHub uses graph databases and temporal versioning to create what our guest calls “the knowledge graph of infrastructure” – enabling true version control at the database level while maintaining the flexibility to model anything from... Read more »

Terry Ray is the Vice President of Product Strategy at Varonis. In this episode, he joins host Paul John Spaulding to discuss database security, including defense against modern cyber threats, risks associated with over-permissioned users and applications, and more. This episode is brought to you by Varonis, whose AI-powered data security platform secures your data at scale – across IaaS, SaaS, and hybrid cloud environments. To learn more about our sponsor, visit https://www.Varonis.com.

In this deep dive episode, we explore the evolution of networking with Avery Pennarun, Co-Founder and CEO of Tailscale. Avery shares his extensive journey through VPN technologies, from writing his first mesh VPN protocol in 1997 called “Tunnel Vision” to building Tailscale, a zero-trust networking solution. We discuss how Tailscale reimagines the OSI stack by... Read more »

- One of the biggest SaaS security incidents recently of course is the Salesloft Drive/Salesforce incident, which impacted hundreds of organizations and involved compromised OAuth tokens. Can you tell us a bit about the incident and the fallout?- In an AppOmni blog on the incident, you all discuss attackers taking advantage of persistent OAuth access, over-permissive access, limited monitoring, and unsecured secrets. Why do these problems continue to plague organizations despite incidents like this?This is part of a broader trend of increased SaaS supply chain attacks. What makes these attacks so enticing for malicious actors and challenging for organizations to prevent entirely?You recently published your State of SaaS Security Report, which projects SaaS to grow 20% YoY between 2025 and 2032. This is despite 75% of organizations reporting a SaaS security incident in the past year. Why do you think we're seeing continued growth in adoption but still lagging in SaaS security to accompany the adoption?The report discusses the rise of NHIs and GenAI and how this will exacerbate problems around SaaS Access and incidents. Can you unpack that for us?I was shocked to see the report find that just 13% of organizations use SSPM tooling despite SaaS's widespread adoption. When you talk to enterprises, for example, nearly everyone is doing some CSPM activity for IaaS. Why are so many neglecting hygiene and posture for their SaaS footprint?

John Capobianco is back! Just months after our first Model Context Protocol (MCP) discussion, John returns to showcase how this “USB-C of software” has transformed from experimental technology to an enterprise-ready solutions. We explore the game-changing OAuth 2.1 security updates, witness live demonstrations of packet analysis through natural language with Gemini CLI, and discover how... Read more »

In this unplanned and unfiltered conversation, we dive deep into network automation realities with Ivan Pepelnjak, networking’s long standing and independent voice from ipSpace.net. We explore why automation projects fail, dissect the tooling landscape (Ansible vs. Terraform vs. Python), and discuss the cultural barriers preventing enterprises from modernizing their networks. Ivan delivers hard truths about... Read more »

Today we explore how to build sustainable tech companies with Brian Pontarelli, Founder of FusionAuth. Brian shares his path from early programming on an Apple IIe to creating innovative solutions in the complex world of customer identity and access management (CIAM). Brian argues that single-tenancy and local development capabilities are crucial for developers. He also... Read more »

How is Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) evolving? How does user experience fit in? Today on The Cloud Gambit, Cory O'Daniel, Co-Founder & CEO of Massdriver, lends his experience as a coder, architect, and founder to help us answer these questions. Cory also discusses what it was like building and funding a startup in the 2021-2022 market, the... Read more »

The Cloud Gambit is joining the Packet Pushers network! Launched in 2023 as an independent podcast, The Cloud Gambit cuts through the hype to deliver what actually matters in cloud and AI. Hosts William Collins and Eyvonne Sharp decode the strategies, technologies, and market forces reshaping enterprise infrastructure. Built for engineers who lead, leaders who... Read more »

Mike Thompson is the Director, Cloud and Security Architecture at Varonis. In this episode, he joins host Paul John Spaulding to discuss Varonis' 2025 State of Data Security report, including the latest threats, how companies can stay protected, and more. This episode is brought to you by Varonis, whose AI-powered data security platform secures your data at scale – across IaaS, SaaS, and hybrid cloud environments. To learn more about our sponsor, visit https://www.Varonis.com.

Yaki Faitelson is the co-founder and CEO at Varonis. In this episode, he joins host Amanda Glassner to discuss Varonis' AI-powered data security platform, including what CISOs across the industry are saying and whether their goalposts have shifted, as well as how cybersecurity teams of all sizes can address new threats, and more. This episode is brought to you by Varonis, whose AI-powered data security platform secures your data at scale – across IaaS, SaaS, and hybrid cloud environments. To learn more about our sponsor, visit https://Varonis.com.

When we use the phrase "talent gap" in cybersecurity, we're usually talking about adding headcount. For this interview, however, we're focusing on a gap that is evident within existing teams and practitioners - the often misunderstood soft skills gap. Side note: I really hate the term "soft skills". How about we call them "fundamental business skills", or "invaluable career advancement skills"? Hmm, doesn't quite roll off the tongue the same. Soft skills can impact everything, as they impose the limits of how we interact with our world. That goes for co-worker interactions, career advancements, and how we're perceived by our peers and community. It doesn't matter how brilliant you might be - without soft skills, your potential could be severely limited. Did you know that soft skills issues contributed to the Equifax breach? We'll also discuss how fear is related to some of the same limitations and challenges as soft skills. Segment Resources: https://www.softskillstech.ca/ Order the Book You might know them from their excellent research work on groups like Scattered Spider, or their refreshing branding/marketing style, but Permiso is laying some impressive groundwork for understanding and defending against identity and cloud-based attacks. In this interview, we talk with co-founder and co-CEO Paul Nguyen about understanding the threats against some of cybercriminals' favorite attack surface, insider threats, and non-human identity compromise. Segment Resources: This blog post from our threat research team on Scattered Spider shows how threat actors move laterally in an environment across identity providers, Iaas, PaaS and SaaS environments, and how this lateral movement ultimately creates blind spots for many security teams This great talk by Ian Ahl, from fwd:cloudsec 2024, touches on a lot of great TTPs used by attackers in IDPs and in the cloud Another blog, When AI Gets Hijacked: Exploiting Hosted Models for Dark Roleplaying and another, What Security Teams Can Learn From The Rippling/Deel Lawsuit: Intent Lies in Search Logs This week, in the enterprise security news, we check the vibes we check the funding we check runZero's latest release notes tons of free tools! the latest TTPs supply chain threats certs won't save you GRC needs disruption the latest Rippling/Deel drama All that and more, on this episode of Enterprise Security Weekly. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-401