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Is cloud repatriation the only answer?

Cloud repatriation should be a last resort, not a repudiation of the cloud. Do you know how to fully optimize cloud workloads to avoid costly in-house investment?

By Tom Nolle • Sept. 23, 2024

Amazon Bedrock vs. SageMaker JumpStart for AI apps

Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker JumpStart both provide AI models for applications. Bedrock offers readily available models, while JumpStart supports more customization.

By Ernesto Marquez • Sept. 23, 2024

What is cloud economics?

Cloud economics analyzes the total cost of ownership, benefits of cloud services and the overall computing costs in an enterprise environment, focusing on the economic principles driving these factors.

By Andy Patrizio • Sept. 20, 2024

9 cloud cost management tools you should know about

There's a whole category of tools dedicated to managing cloud costs. Here's how they optimize cloud resources and improve bottom lines, plus descriptions of nine of the best ones.

By Adam Bertram • Sept. 20, 2024

16 metrics that matter in cloud performance monitoring

Compute cost and requests per minute are just two of the metrics that keep cloud performance humming. Here's how cloud metrics differ from on-premises, plus advice on buying tools.

By Chris Tozzi • Sept. 19, 2024

How to build a cloud capacity management plan

Running workloads in the cloud gives an organization access to unlimited resources. That's a good thing, but only if the IT team adopts good capacity planning practices.

By Chris Tozzi • Sept. 18, 2024

Cloud change management: What you need to plan for

Traditional change management and frameworks like ITIL are usually too slow and bureaucratic. You need to adapt them for the speed, and agility -- and risks -- of the cloud.

By George Lawton • Sept. 17, 2024

Oracle users share challenges, successes with cloud, AI

At Oracle CloudWorld, companies ranging from banks to candy makers shared the challenges and benefits of using Oracle cloud software and AI in enterprise environments.

By Antone Gonsalves • Sept. 13, 2024

Oracle CloudWorld 2024 delivers AI, database and OCI updates

Oracle delivered more AI features at its conference, including over 50 AI agents and a new generative AI RAG Agent in OCI, as well as a long-awaited partnership with AWS.

By Mike Leone • Sept. 13, 2024

What is cloud repatriation and what are the leading causes?

Cloud repatriation refers to the practice of relocating public cloud applications to different locations, most often on premises and for financial, performance and regulatory reasons.

By Chris Kanaracus • Sept. 10, 2024

AWS joins Microsoft, Google Cloud in offering Oracle database

AWS joined Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud in offering the Oracle Database, an indication that enterprises want to use Oracle alongside the cloud providers' AI services.

By Antone Gonsalves • Sept. 10, 2024

6 FinOps KPIs and metrics to optimize cloud expenditures

IT leaders who adopt FinOps metrics can identify underutilized resources, improve cost allocation and build a tighter connection between cloud investment and business value.

By John Moore • Sept. 9, 2024

What is AWS? Ultimate guide to Amazon Web Services

AWS (Amazon Web Services) is a comprehensive, evolving cloud computing platform provided by Amazon. It includes a mixture of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), platform-as-a-service and packaged software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings.

By Paul Kirvan, Nick Barney, Alexander Gillis • Sept. 5, 2024

What is shared responsibility model?

A shared responsibility model is a cloud security framework that dictates the security obligations of a cloud computing provider and its users to ensure accountability.

By Kathleen Casey, Stephen Bigelow • Sept. 5, 2024

FinOps tools to consider for your organization

FinOps tools help organizations optimize cloud spending and use. Review the different native and third-party options to find the best fit for your needs.

By Stephen Bigelow • Sept. 5, 2024

A beginner’s guide to cloud-native application development

Cloud-native applications have become ubiquitous in IT environments. Review key principles, patterns and developmental factors to keep in mind before creating a cloud-native app.

By Zachary Flower • Sept. 5, 2024

What is a cloud architect and how do you become one?

A cloud architect is an IT professional who is responsible for overseeing a company's cloud computing strategy.

By Ben Lutkevich, Kinza Yasar, Nicholas Rando • Sept. 4, 2024

Understanding the role of AI in cloud computing

AI is bringing previously unimagined capabilities in automation, optimization and predictive analytics to cloud management while posing new challenges for IT departments.

By George Lawton • Sept. 4, 2024

What is a cloud engineer? Key skills and how to become one

A cloud engineer is an IT professional responsible for any technological duties associated with cloud computing, including design, planning, management, maintenance and support.

By Wesley Chai, Nicholas Rando • Sept. 4, 2024

What is cloud application performance management (cloud APM)?

Cloud application performance management (cloud APM) is the process of monitoring resources that support software application performance in public cloud, private cloud and hybrid cloud environments. It takes actions to resolve issues and maintain optimal performance.

By Cameron Hashemi-Pour, Stephen Bigelow • Sept. 4, 2024

Can VMware’s private cloud spur the demise of siloed tech?

The private-cloud-centric future VMware presents could benefit enterprises if it continues to innovate and deliver an integrated, full-stack private cloud its customers want.

By Scott Sinclair • Sept. 4, 2024

What is FinOps?

FinOps -- a combination of the terms finance and DevOps -- is a framework for managing operational costs across an organization, often in conjunction with cloud computing.

By Stephen Bigelow, Kinza Yasar • Sept. 4, 2024

FinOps best practices to fully optimize your cloud costs

While there's no one-size-fits-all approach to a FinOps initiative, these established principles and practices get you started on the right path.

By Stephen Bigelow • Sept. 4, 2024

What is AWS Outposts?

AWS Outposts is a fully managed service from Amazon Web Services (AWS) that enables users to set up a hybrid cloud by extending AWS infrastructure, services, application programming interfaces (APIs) and tools to any datacenter, colocation space or on-premises facility.

By Rahul Awati, Alexander Gillis • Aug. 29, 2024

Why observability is important in multi-cloud environments

Increased use of multi-cloud environments is creating a need for specialized observability methods and tools for tracking and measuring cloud performance.

By Chris Kanaracus • Aug. 29, 2024