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Top 6 soft skills in IT that cloud teams need

Soft skills play a bigger part in successful cloud deployments than you might think. Technical skills are obviously essential in IT, but a company must hire well-rounded employees.

By Brian Kirsch • March 8, 2024

Google App Engine

Google App Engine (GAE) is a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) product that enables web app developers and enterprises to build, deploy and host scalable, high-performance applications in Google's fully managed cloud environment without having to worry about infrastructure provisioning or management.

By Rahul Awati , Ben Lutkevich • March 8, 2024

cloud audit

A cloud audit is an assessment of a cloud computing environment and its services, based on a specific set of controls and best practices.

By Robert Sheldon , Paul Kirvan • March 4, 2024

Pros and cons of CS degrees vs. cloud certification programs

Standards for IT qualifications are changing with the rapid pace of cloud adoption. See how experts evaluate the debate between individual cloud certifications or a full degree.

By George Lawton • Feb. 28, 2024

Get to know 8 core cloud team roles and responsibilities

To fully realize the benefits of cloud, you're going to need to create a structure that puts the right people in the right places. Here are the key roles involved.

By Stephen Bigelow • Feb. 23, 2024

How to build a cloud center of excellence in 9 steps

A cloud center of excellence brings together expertise from different departments to develop a uniform cloud adoption strategy. Here are some best practices for a successful CCoE.

By Stephen Bigelow • Feb. 23, 2024

Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service)

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is a managed database service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). It makes it easy to set up and operate a scalable relational database in the AWS cloud.

By Rahul Awati , Ben Lutkevich • Feb. 20, 2024

Google Transfer Appliance

Google Transfer Appliance is a high-capacity storage server that enables enterprises to transport large volumes of data to Google Cloud Storage.

By Kathleen Casey • Feb. 12, 2024

Upskill your cloud team for success

An investment in people is an investment in the company. See how a trained and upskilled staff can have a positive impact on productivity and profits.

By Brian Kirsch • Feb. 9, 2024

OpenStack

OpenStack is a collection of open source software modules and tools that provides organizations with a framework to create and manage both public cloud and private cloud infrastructure.

By Stephen Bigelow, Kinza Yasar • Feb. 9, 2024

cloud modernization

Cloud modernization is a multistep process where existing on-premises applications, infrastructure and data sources are migrated, updated and transformed into a cloud-based architecture and environment.

By Andy Patrizio • Feb. 7, 2024

consumption-based pricing model

A consumption-based pricing model is a service provision and payment scheme in which customers pay according to the resources they use.

By Robert Sheldon, Gavin Wright • Feb. 7, 2024

Amazon ECS vs. Kubernetes: Which should you use on AWS?

Learn the basics about Amazon ECS and Kubernetes, as well as EKS and Fargate, before you choose an application architecture for your workloads on AWS.

By Chris Tozzi • Jan. 31, 2024

What is Cloud Computing? An Introduction

This short video explains the essentials of cloud computing and its three major types. Learn the difference between public and private cloud and the top benefits.

By TechTarget Contributor • Jan. 26, 2024

What you need to know about Microsoft Azure Spot VMs

The cost of spot prices can be a risk-and-reward kind of strategy. Better understand the risks that come with Azure Spot VMs so your enterprise can reap the rewards.

By Chris Tozzi • Jan. 25, 2024

How to build a successful FinOps team

A successful FinOps team relies on clear team structure and roles, shared accountability and baseline measures of success. Use these best practices to build a FinOps team.

By Will Kelly • Jan. 24, 2024

Top benefits and disadvantages of serverless computing

It's no secret that developers want to focus more on building apps. With serverless, the cloud vendor takes care of back-end tasks. However, serverless comes with its own caveats.

By Liam Cleary • Jan. 23, 2024

data center modernization

Data center modernization includes updating and improving a data center to meet the requirements of the current and the next generation of workloads.

By Sean Kerner • Jan. 22, 2024

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is a scalable, high-speed, web-based cloud storage service. The service is designed for online backup and archiving of data and applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

By Gavin Wright, Wesley Chai • Jan. 22, 2024

Decode serverless pricing in AWS to avoid high costs

Serverless computing is an implementation worth considering in any cloud-based application. Learn to evaluate every component to avoid unexpected and unnecessary high costs.

By Ernesto Marquez • Jan. 19, 2024

On premises vs. cloud pros and cons, key differences

Immersed in the 'should I stay or should I go' cloud migration debate? Before vacating the premises and moving 'up there,' ponder these advantages and disadvantages.

By Zachary Flower, Ron Karjian • Jan. 19, 2024

The pros and cons of containerized 5G workloads

Deploying containerized 5G workloads in a cloud environment offers benefits like portability, optimized resource usage and orchestration. But the strategy creates security risks.

By Chris Tozzi • Jan. 18, 2024

What is hybrid cloud? The ultimate guide

A hybrid cloud is a cloud computing environment that uses a mix of on-premises, private cloud and third-party public cloud services with orchestration among these platforms.

By Ron Karjian, Stephen Bigelow • Jan. 12, 2024

hybrid cloud architecture

Hybrid cloud architecture is a type of cloud computing architecture that combines public cloud, private cloud and on-premises resources.

By Sean Kerner • Jan. 5, 2024

7 keys to an effective hybrid cloud migration strategy

Cloud readiness, storage costs, network lag and metrics can make or break the choice to move data, applications and workloads to today's more complex hybrid cloud environment.

By Brian Kirsch • Jan. 5, 2024