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Oracle hones in on AWS cost, multi-cloud database support

Oracle is allowing its database users to access those services on rival clouds, while aggressively pursuing AWS customers in search of lower-cost cloud infrastructure.

By Bridget Botelho • Sept. 13, 2022

Compare AWS Glue vs. Azure Data Factory

AWS Glue and Azure Data Factory have key differences despite being similar services. Learn which best suits your organization's data integration and ETL requirements.

By Chris Tozzi • Sept. 9, 2022

How VMware Explore 2022 changed my mind

Multi-cloud and cloud-native strategies emerged as major themes at VMware Explore 2022. Explore key announcements from the conference and their impact here.

By Paul Nashawaty • Sept. 8, 2022

Distributed cloud changes IT architecture and planning

With modern applications distributed across multiple platforms and locations, IT organizations must adjust how they confront that greater management complexity.

By Scott Sinclair • Sept. 6, 2022

VMware CEO reveals big changes amid multi-cloud shift

VMware plans to change products, strategic direction and marketing to keep up with customers rushing to deploy multi-cloud architectures.

By Antone Gonsalves • Aug. 31, 2022

IBM, VMware to jointly develop services for hybrid clouds

IBM and VMware expanded their long-held partnership with a deal to provide hybrid cloud services and consulting to IT pros in regulated industries.

By Ed Scannell • Aug. 30, 2022

VMware expands vSphere, vSAN for hybrid cloud enterprises

Updates to VMware's flagship vSphere and vSAN software keep pace with enterprise interest in hybrid cloud infrastructure for applications and workloads.

By Tim McCarthy • Aug. 30, 2022

VMware unveils Aria for multi-cloud management

The Aria product portfolio includes a software console powered by a central data store to deliver a map of the applications running in a multi-cloud environment.

By Antone Gonsalves • Aug. 30, 2022

Break down Azure VM pricing models and discounts

Azure offers three VM pricing models. Learn the benefits and drawbacks of each, which model works best for you and discount options to help you save.

By Chris Tozzi • Aug. 23, 2022

FinOps vs. DevOps: What’s the difference?

While they might seem inherently different, both FinOps and DevOps encourage practices to improve business efficiency and success. Review the concepts and how they compare.

By Stephen Bigelow • Aug. 23, 2022

Tips for smoother, more secure cloud performance

It's easy for an unanticipated glitch to create a significant disruption to a cloud environment. To get around these pitfalls, here are some key things to watch out for.

By Siddharth Bhai • Aug. 17, 2022

Be aware of these CloudWatch Logs limits and quotas

CloudWatch Logs imposes certain limits and service quotas related to log data ingestion and other areas. Fortunately, in many cases, there are workarounds.

By Ernesto Marquez • Aug. 16, 2022

An Azure Data Factory tutorial for beginners

Azure Data Factory can be used to create data pipelines to process data from multiple sources. Learn how to effectively create these pipelines within Azure Portal.

By Joydip Kanjilal • Aug. 15, 2022

Gain insights from Azure Advisor recommendations

Microsoft's Azure Advisor service offers recommendations based on five categories. Learn these categories and the roles they play in a cloud management strategy.

By Chris Tozzi • Aug. 5, 2022

Will cloud, IT services prove recession-resistant businesses?

Partners expect demand for their offerings to endure through economic turbulence and, to some extent, because of the unsettling times; more IT channel news.

By John Moore • Aug. 1, 2022

Microsoft Azure revenue continues to climb, despite slowdown

Microsoft Azure revenue extended its rocket rise in the latest quarter -- but a variety of industry and geopolitical issues put a lid on the company's overall revenue growth.

By Ed Scannell • July 27, 2022

Partners see growth in maturing on-premises cloud technology

Colocation, data-center-as-a-service offerings and cloud-like consumption models offer customers alternatives -- or adjuncts -- to public cloud platforms.

By Esther Shein • July 20, 2022

When and how to search with Amazon CloudWatch Logs

Logs can reveal important information about your systems, such as patterns and errors. Learn how to search logs with CloudWatch Logs, key concepts and other options.

By Ernesto Marquez • July 20, 2022

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is a cloud-based container management service that natively integrates with Kubernetes to deploy applications.

By Trevor Jones, Stephen Bigelow • July 15, 2022

Learn the basics of SaaS licensing and pricing models

SaaS licensing can be tricky to navigate, and a wrong choice could cost you. To get it right, examine the different types of licenses and the main pricing models.

By Brian Kirsch • July 13, 2022

Walmart’s multi-cloud strategy cuts millions in IT costs

Walmart built its own cloud platform and tied it to two public cloud providers, creating a multi-cloud architecture that saved millions in costs and sped up development tasks.

By Antone Gonsalves • July 12, 2022

Can HPE change what it means to use the cloud?

The latest updates to HPE GreenLake demonstrate the tech vendor's commitment to "everything-as-a-service." Will it be enough to transform the cloud computing model?

By Scott Sinclair • July 11, 2022

DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean Inc. is a cloud computing vendor headquartered in New York City with data centers worldwide that offers an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platform for software developers.

By Kathleen Casey, Alexander Gillis • June 30, 2022

Cloud-native modernization is on the rise

Research suggests that cloud-native application deployment is becoming more prevalent as organizations continue to embrace public cloud infrastructure.

By Paul Nashawaty • June 30, 2022

IT buyers respond to HPE GreenLake cloud pitch

Tech buyers are interested in the breadth and depth of services sold through the HPE GreenLake service, but want proof of cost savings and data control.

By Tim McCarthy • June 30, 2022