Somerford Blog How Does Kora Enhance Kafka & Confluent Cloud? Author: Sam Ward Release Date: 03/09/2024 Confluent Cloud: A Look Back In order to understand what Kora is, we first need to take a step back, and contextualise why Confluent needed a Cloud-Native Apache Kafka Engine in the first place. Confluent’s early Kafka offering was […]
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Somerford Blog How HashiCorp’s Solutions Suite Secures Kubernetes for Business Success Author: John Jarvis Release Date: 22/01/2024 Kubernetes has become a cornerstone of modern architecture. But managing it at scale, and securely, can be a big challenge. That’s where HashiCorp’s suite of tools comes in. From secrets management with Vault to service mesh security with
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Somerford Blog How to Configure Single-Sign On with Office 365 Author: Jamie Turbill Release Date: 13/06/2022 If you use Office 365 heavily, you know it’s a critical application in your organisation. It enables collaboration and communication between your employees, customers, suppliers and more and without it you simply cannot work. You May Also Like: Ensuring
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Somerford Blog Vault Enterprise: Secrets Management at Scale Author: John Jarvis Release Date: 11/01/21 HashiCorp’s Vault is a highly-flexible secrets management system: whether you’re a team looking for a secure, hassle-free key-value store for your application’s secrets, or an organisation in need of encryption-as-a-service to meet data-at-rest requirements, Vault is the answer; as your team
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Somerford Blog Top 5 Reasons to Choose HashiCorp Vault Author: John Jarvis Release Date: 12/12/2024 What is HashiCorp Vault? HashiCorp’s Vault (just Vault hereafter) is so versatile that it makes it tough to write a post like this. It’s the swiss army knife of the security world, I think it’s fair to say; and therefore,
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Somerford Blog What is HashiCorp Nomad? Author: Jordan Phillpotts Release Date: 03/05/2024 Greetings Traveller, come on in, you look weary from your lonely pilgrimage. Sit yourself by the fire and I’ll tell you a tale. This tale is of one like you, another Nomad, although this mythical figure does not travel the land in search
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Somerford Blog Extending Vault: Zero Trust with HashiCorp Boundary Author: John ‘JJ’ Jarvis Release Date: 28/01/22 HashiConf Global is a wrap, and, along with loads of Kubernetes integrations, a main theme was the importance of zero trust as a security model for modern organisations. In a multi-cloud context, this can be summarised as four pillars:
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Somerford Blog Data in Motion – Confluent vs Kafka Author: Riley Martin Release Date: 06/10/2023 When looking to set Data in Motion, a quick Google would probably get the results of Confluent and Kafka, you may even have found this blog that way! However, if you don’t have a lot of experience with real-time data
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Somerford Blog 5 Steps for Strengthening Cyber Resilience Authors: Jake Hammacott & Oliver Knapp Release Date: 26/04/2024 In the modern day, threats to businesses originate almost entirely in the digital world, be that with the aim of stealing identities, or the more basic desire of financial gain. As such, to businesses in this day and
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‘I know SSO, but what is this so-called Desktop SSO? How does it make my life easier?’ 21/07/19 – Author: Grace Maher – Certified Splunk Consultant We are all used to a traditional SSO portal, a centralised location for us to all sign into and access our applications without the need to know what your
