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Azure surpasses AWS for some enterprise cloud uses

Flexera's new 'State of the Cloud Report' puts Azure ahead of AWS for the first time as enterprise IT pros' preferred public cloud, but analysts say AWS still leads the market.

By Ed Scannell • April 21, 2022

Key Amazon EKS monitoring best practices

Learn how to monitor Amazon EKS resources through tools such as CloudWatch and Prometheus, as well as worker node and infrastructure monitoring tips to maintain application efficiency.

By Michael Levan • April 14, 2022

VoltaGrid taps Rackspace for AI Ecosystem portal, cloud app

With a lofty goal to revolutionize the mobile energy industry, VoltaGrid needed support to improve customer operations quickly. Learn how MSP Rackspace Technology stepped up.

By Linda Rosencrance • April 13, 2022

How cost and complexity factor into AWS DR strategies

To choose the right AWS disaster recovery plan, understand how much downtime your business can tolerate -- and how DR scenarios affect your monthly costs.

By Brian Kirsch • April 7, 2022

Nvidia unveils latest 3D sim tech for multiple industries

Nvidia has launched a cloud-based version of its Omniverse platform for 3D simulations. The company also unveiled an Omniverse computing system.

By Antone Gonsalves • March 23, 2022

How an AWS multi-region architecture can strengthen DR

Meet AWS outages head on by learning how to build a multi-region architecture that achieves resiliency in the event of disaster.

By George Lawton • March 22, 2022

Compare high availability vs. fault tolerance in AWS

To achieve high availability and fault tolerance in AWS, IT admins must first understand the differences between the two models.

By Chris Tozzi • March 18, 2022

Compare Amazon ECS vs. EKS

Amazon ECS and EKS are similar, but their differences are enough to set them apart for AWS users. Learn which best fits your needs in terms of flexibility, pricing and more.

By Chris Tozzi • March 17, 2022

Oracle Cloud adds ZFS high availability, block provisioning

New storage additions such as Flexible Block Volumes and high availability for ZFS grow Oracle's cloud platform to compete against public cloud giants like AWS.

By Tim McCarthy • March 16, 2022

Kyndryl, Cloudera announce data transformation partnership

Kyndryl has signed another partnership as it continues to forge independence from IBM -- this time with Cloudera, to help accelerate data transformation projects for hybrid clouds.

By Ed Scannell • March 16, 2022

Cloud data platforms spark partners’ consulting business

Service providers can find a range of consulting opportunities as they help clients navigate a plethora of emerging data management platforms and associated tools.

By John Moore • March 11, 2022

data residency

Data residency refers to the physical or geographic location of an organization's data or information.

By Andrew Zola, Nicholas Rando • March 10, 2022

How to approach cloud compliance monitoring

Compliance monitoring is a critical practice. Learn how to build a cloud compliance monitoring strategy from application design and development to ongoing operations.

By Tom Nolle • March 7, 2022

Stay online with these 5 AWS disaster recovery best practices

Solve disasters in an AWS deployment by having a disaster recovery strategy in place. Learn how to pick the right recovery methods and prevent more problems.

By Chris Tozzi • March 4, 2022

Compare Azure instance types for cloud workloads

Deciding on the best Azure compute instance type for a cloud workload involves many choices. Use these tips to help select the right size VM, optimized for the right tasks.

By Stephen Bigelow • March 3, 2022

Compare DigitalOcean vs. Vultr for cloud deployments

Sometimes a cloud provider that isn't a big name can be just what you're looking for. Vultr and DigitalOcean are such two providers, and here's how they compare.

By Michael Levan • March 1, 2022

Compare Azure Bicep vs. Terraform to provision infrastructure

In comparing Azure Bicep vs Terraform, Azure cloud admins can make an informed decision on which IaC service they want to use to automate deployment of their cloud.

By Michael Levan • Feb. 24, 2022

Test your platform-as-a-service knowledge with this PaaS quiz

PaaS offerings continue to evolve, with a range of vendors and tools available to enterprise development teams. Use this quiz to see the strength of your PaaS knowledge.

By Johanna McDonald, Kathleen Casey • Feb. 24, 2022

Akamai aims Linode acquisition at improving edge services

Akamai's $900 million acquisition of IaaS vendor Linode would add a distributed computing platform to Akamai's content delivery network. The deal is expected to close this quarter.

By Madelaine Millar • Feb. 17, 2022

Use Amazon CloudWatch metrics to monitor Aurora

Application owners need to know the vital metrics that affect database health. CloudWatch and DevOps Guru monitor Amazon Aurora performance to give users valuable insights.

By Ernesto Marquez • Feb. 15, 2022

Digital transformation acceleration drives cloud spend

Recent research points to a continuation of the enterprise IT projects -- many built on cloud technology -- that emerged in the second half of 2020; more IT channel news.

By John Moore • Feb. 11, 2022

Assessing colocation vs. cloud for hybrid IT infrastructure

When transforming operations to a hybrid IT environment, there's one other option to consider beyond the premises, public cloud and hybrid. Learn the many advantages of colocation.

By Ron Karjian, Brien Posey • Feb. 11, 2022

What is PaaS? Platform as a service definition and guide

Platform as a service (PaaS) is a cloud computing model where a third-party provider delivers hardware and software tools to users over the internet.

By Stephen Bigelow, Wesley Chai, Kate Brush • Feb. 7, 2022

Compare Google Cloud Run vs. App Engine for enterprise software

Google's Cloud Run and App Engine both aim to accelerate app development and simplify deployment. Developers will want to choose between the services on a case-by-case basis.

By Kurt Marko • Feb. 1, 2022

The state of the PaaS business model and market in 2022

PaaS fills the gap between IaaS and SaaS for developers and comes with its own benefits and challenges, which inform the PaaS business model and market.

By Linda Rosencrance • Jan. 31, 2022