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Are AWS Local Zones right for my low-latency app?

AWS offers its customers several options to minimize application latency. Let's look at the role AWS Local Zones can play in delivering your apps right on time.

By Darcy DeClute • June 27, 2023

IBM aims to reduce cloud costs with $4.6B Apptio acquisition

Apptio fills FinOps holes in IBM Turbonomic, providing a tool to help organizations make IT budgeting decisions based on their business objectives.

By Antone Gonsalves • June 26, 2023

HPE customers move to embrace hybrid cloud by design

Hybrid clouds are often a reaction to problems. The Dallas Cowboys, Texas Children's Hospital and Experian turned to HPE GreenLake ahead of -- rather than in response to -- issues.

By Adam Armstrong • June 26, 2023

HPE GreenLake expands further into AWS, VMware clouds

Updates to GreenLake services and new partnerships allow customers to integrate more AWS and VMware public cloud workloads into HPE's private cloud.

By Tim McCarthy • June 20, 2023

HPE GreenLake private cloud gets self-managed, pre-deployed

At HPE Discover 2023, the vendor introduced new container support, a lower-tier private cloud and easier deployment at colocation data centers.

By Adam Armstrong • June 20, 2023

Guard information in cloud with a data classification policy

The cloud's need for special data classification attention arises from a combination of risk factors. With proper care, classification and compliance can limit these risks.

By Tom Nolle • June 16, 2023

Reduce latency with the right AWS placement group

When prioritizing latency in AWS, evaluate the advantages and limitations of placement groups and how they fit the desired cloud architecture outcome for an application.

By Ernesto Marquez • June 8, 2023

Cloud-native development still a work in progress for companies

Enterprise Strategy Group's Paul Nashawaty breaks down the research firm's latest survey on the state of cloud-native application development. The picture isn't perfect.

By David Essex • June 8, 2023

Microsoft Azure VM Scale Sets

A Microsoft Azure VM Scale Set is a group of individual virtual machines (VMs) within the Microsoft Azure public cloud that IT administrators can configure and manage as a single unit. They are best suited for large-scale computing services, such as big data processing.

By Rahul Awati • May 30, 2023

Dell Apex updates support enterprise ‘cloud to ground’ moves

Dell's latest Apex updates puts the company in a position to capitalize on the hybrid, multi-cloud and edge computing needs of enterprises.

By Scott Sinclair • May 25, 2023

Prepare for the Azure Security Engineer Associate certification

Are you ready to boost your resume or further your cloud career path? Review this preparation guide to get ready for Exam AZ-500 to become Microsoft certified.

By Liam Cleary • May 25, 2023

Dell takes edge deployment from the frontier to NativeEdge

At Dell Tech World, the vendor seeks to simplify deploying and managing up to thousands of edge devices in various locations, as Project Frontier becomes Dell NativeEdge.

By Adam Armstrong • May 23, 2023

How to create an incremental snapshot in Azure

Incremental snapshots provide several advantages over full snapshots, including lower cost and faster backups. Learn how to create an incremental snapshot in Azure.

By Chris Tozzi • May 22, 2023

3 rules to adapt cloud change management policies

Having a change management policy can minimize risk when it comes to making changes. Follow these rules to adapt cloud change management policies and compliance within the cloud.

By Tom Nolle • May 18, 2023

How to create a Google Cloud Spot VM

A Google Cloud Spot VM can help you take advantage of discounts, but you must be careful not to run certain apps on it. Learn more about Spot VMs and the process to create one.

By Will Kelly • May 17, 2023

Google doubles down on generative AI

From Google I/O 2023, Enterprise Strategy Group's Paul Nashawaty comments on AI enhancements to Google search, photos, maps and Gmail, and how the changes could affect developers.

By Paul Nashawaty • May 12, 2023

Security experts share cloud auditing best practices

A cloud audit allows organizations to assess cloud vendor performance. Auditing experts Shinesa Cambric and Michael Ratemo talk about the role of compliance in auditing.

By Johanna McDonald • May 12, 2023

Deploy an app on Google Cloud Run with Terraform

Using Terraform to deploy an application to Google Cloud Run enables a scalable deployment process and can reduce configuration struggles. Follow this tutorial to get started.

By Chris Tozzi • May 10, 2023

VMware strives to become the multi-cloud leader

The multi-cloud world continues to expand, and VMware is taking its tag line of 'Realize what's possible' seriously. Learn more about what VMware has planned for multi-cloud.

By Paul Nashawaty • May 8, 2023

How FinOps tools affect cloud decisions

Organizations adopt FinOps to optimize cloud costs, to align cloud spending with business functions and to establish better governance over cloud expenditures. But what is the impact?

By Jon Brown • May 8, 2023

How to create a CloudWatch alarm for an EC2 instance

CloudWatch alarms are the building blocks of monitoring and response tools in AWS. Get familiar with them by creating an Amazon CloudWatch alarm for an EC2 instance.

By Christopher Blackden • April 26, 2023

5 methods to restore an Azure VM

There are various ways to restore an Azure VM. Review why you would need to restore a VM, available restoration methods and which process fits your situation best.

By Chris Tozzi • April 26, 2023

Cloud Foundry

Cloud Foundry is an open source cloud platform as a service (PaaS) on which developers can build, deploy, run and scale applications.

By Paul Kirvan, Kathleen Casey • April 25, 2023

integration as a service (IaaS)

Integration as a service (IaaS) is a cloud-based delivery model that strives to connect on-premises data with data located in cloud-based applications.

By Johanna McDonald, TechTarget Contributor • April 25, 2023

The benefits and limitations of Google Cloud Recommender

Cloud costs can get out of hand but services such as Google Cloud Recommender provide insights to optimize your workloads. But can you trust its recommendations?

By Chris Tozzi • April 20, 2023