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Zadara taps new CEO as founder moves to CTO role

Yoram Novick, the second CEO for cloud startup Zadara, brings decades of IT executive experience to the role and talks about private cloud competition in this Q&A.

By Tim McCarthy • April 19, 2023

TOSCA (Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications)

The Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (TOSCA) is an open source language used to describe the relationships and dependencies between services and applications that reside on a cloud computing platform.

By Paul Kirvan, Stephen Bigelow • April 17, 2023

Red Hat OpenShift

Red Hat OpenShift is a multifaceted, open source container application development platform from Red Hat Inc. for the development, deployment and management of applications.

By Paul Kirvan, Joel Shore • April 17, 2023

Amazon S3 bucket

An Amazon S3 bucket is a public cloud storage resource available in Amazon Web Services' (AWS) Simple Storage Service (S3), an object storage offering.

By Kinza Yasar • April 14, 2023

Azure Migrate

Azure Migrate is a Microsoft service that helps an enterprise assess how its on-premises workloads will perform, and how much they will cost to host, in the Azure public cloud.

By Paul Kirvan, Alexander Gillis • April 11, 2023

Azure Container Instances (ACI)

Azure Container Instances (ACI) is a service that enables a developer to deploy containers on the Microsoft Azure public cloud without having to provision or manage any underlying infrastructure.

By Paul Kirvan, Kristin Knapp • April 10, 2023

How latency-based routing works in Amazon Route 53

If you're looking at Amazon Route 53 as a way to reduce latency, here's how the service works.

By Ernesto Marquez • April 3, 2023

container registry

A container registry is a collection of repositories made to store container images.

By Johanna McDonald, Alexander Gillis • March 31, 2023

4 best practices to avoid cloud vendor lock-in

Without proper planning, an organization could end up feeling trapped in its relationship with a cloud provider. Follow these tips to avoid vendor lock-in.

By George Lawton • March 29, 2023

Is a cloud-first strategy right for you?

A cloud-first strategy has its fair share of advantages and disadvantages. Learn how to avoid risks and build a strategy that is right for your organization.

By Tom Nolle • March 20, 2023

Microsoft Azure monitoring tools

Azure monitoring tools are software meant to assist in the different aspects of cloud infrastructure management and monitoring, centering around Microsoft’s cloud computing platform, Azure.

By Johanna McDonald, Alexander Gillis • March 17, 2023

How to use startup scripts in Google Cloud

Google Cloud lets you use startup scripts when booting VMs to improve security and reliability. Follow these steps to create your own startup scripts.

By Will Kelly • March 16, 2023

Amazon AI

Amazon AI is a set of artificial intelligence (AI) services that offer machine learning (ML) and deep learning technologies for Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers.

By Tim Culverhouse, Alexander Gillis • March 16, 2023

Cloud cost management takes center stage

IT shops appear ready to focus on cloud costs amid inflation and economic uncertainty. Service providers expect clients to invest more in FinOps and optimization tools this year.

By John Moore • March 13, 2023

Testing as a Service (TaaS)

Testing as a service (TaaS) is an outsourcing model in which testing activities associated with some of an organization's business activities are performed by a service provider rather than in-house employees.

By Ben Lutkevich • March 13, 2023

When to use AWS Compute Optimizer vs. Cost Explorer

AWS Compute Optimizer and Cost Explorer monitor, analyze and optimize your cloud costs. Compare the two tools to choose which is best for VM rightsizing.

By Ernesto Marquez • March 11, 2023

virtual private cloud (VPC)

A virtual private cloud (VPC) is the logical division of a service provider's public cloud multi-tenant architecture to support private cloud computing.

By Kristin Knapp, Alexander Gillis • March 8, 2023

AWS Partner Network (APN)

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN) is a classification endorsed by AWS for a global community of cloud service providers and vendors once they qualify for certain benchmarks.

By Kinza Yasar, David Carty • March 7, 2023

AWS Network Load Balancer (NLB)

AWS Network Load Balancer (NLB) is an Amazon Web Services tool that distributes high-performance traffic across multiple cloud instances and provides automatic scaling of resources to ensure low latency and high throughput for applications.

By Kinza Yasar • March 2, 2023

Get to know the Azure resource hierarchy

Azure management groups, subscriptions, resource groups and resources are not mutually exclusive. Businesses can -- and often do -- use all of these scopes simultaneously.

By Chris Tozzi • March 2, 2023

MuleSoft

MuleSoft is a Salesforce company that provides numerous tools to build automations and integrations for various enterprise use cases.

By Rahul Awati, Kristin Knapp, Nicholas Rando • Feb. 28, 2023

Google Cloud Composer

Cloud Composer is a managed workflow orchestration service that is built on Apache Airflow.

By Johanna McDonald, TechTarget Contributor • Feb. 28, 2023

Get started with Amazon CodeGuru with this tutorial

Amazon CodeGuru reviews code and suggests improvements to users looking to make their code more efficient as well as optimize costs. Follow this tutorial to get started.

By Will Kelly • Feb. 27, 2023

AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)

AWS Key Management Service (KMS) is a managed service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that allows companies to create, control and manage the cryptographic keys that encrypt and protect their data.

By Rahul Awati, David Carty • Feb. 21, 2023

Top cloud performance issues that bog down enterprise apps

Workloads with rigid latency, bandwidth, availability or integration requirements tend to perform better -- and cost less -- if you host them on private infrastructure.

By Chris Tozzi • Feb. 15, 2023