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AWS, Azure and Google peppered with outages in same week

Cloud outages hit AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud within the past week, an outcome that suggests customers must take a more sophisticated approach to ensure maximum uptime.

By Chris Kanaracus • Nov. 14, 2019

Google to unveil post-Chronicle cloud cybersecurity plans

Google plans to discuss its cloud cybersecurity portfolio at a conference next week, with the capabilities developed by Chronicle figuring heavily into the mix.

By Chris Kanaracus • Nov. 14, 2019

Get to know popular cloud monitoring tools

With so many cloud monitoring services on the market, it can be difficult to choose. Review some of the popular tools available from AWS, Google and Azure -- as well as non-native options.

By Sara Grier • Nov. 14, 2019

AWS SysOps certification exam guide outlines admin responsibility

In this book excerpt from "AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate All-in-One Exam Guide," review the best practices for OS and application security on AWS.

By McGraw Hill Education, Ryan Dowd • Nov. 14, 2019

AWS data lake and data warehouse options for the cloud

Get ready for data analytics in the cloud. Learn the best ways to handle your data on AWS. Distinguish between data lakes and data warehouse services on AWS and how they work.

By George Lawton • Nov. 14, 2019

Understand and deploy IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions

The IBM-VMware partnership has provided a platform for admins committed to VMware technologies who also require cloud benefits such as such as scalability and fast provisioning.

By Robert Sheldon • Nov. 13, 2019

How AppDefense works to detect app and VM anomalies

AppDefense, a newer addition to the VMware security tool portfolio and part of the vSphere Platinum edition, helps organizations detect security related anomalies in VMs and applications.

By Rob Bastiaansen • Nov. 12, 2019

Get to know Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB use cases

Organizations can deploy Cosmos DB for a range of important applications. Learn how to bolster Azure workloads with this Microsoft database service that is highly distributed and multi-model.

By George Lawton • Nov. 11, 2019

CPaaS market could boost partners with the right skills

Channel companies that want to become CPaaS partners should expect to encounter a new set of buyers, a rapidly changing technology and the need for coding skills.

By Paul Korzeniowski • Nov. 11, 2019

Microsoft cybersecurity training to become mandatory for its workers

Microsoft's cybersecurity training program, which uses AI-powered tools to reinforce learning, is mandated for all employees. It will also be launched in a version for customers.

By Chris Kanaracus • Nov. 8, 2019

IBM’s financial services cloud offers developer opportunity

IBM hopes to bring developers to its new financial services cloud that runs on the IBM Cloud platform and uses Red Hat OpenShift as its Kubernetes environment.

By Darryl Taft • Nov. 8, 2019

How the Microsoft and Oracle partnership affects IT workloads

Oracle and Microsoft's move to unite sometimes-competitive applications and cloud environments means that businesses can focus less on architecture rewrites and more on capabilities.

By Kerry Doyle • Nov. 8, 2019

AWS should address these key challenges at re:Invent 2019

AWS has flooded its catalog with services, but enterprises still struggle with the gaps that remain. Find out which pain points cloud experts want AWS to address at re:Invent this year.

By Sarah Neenan • Nov. 8, 2019

Mars gains sweet cloud savings with Azure Cost Management

Azure Cost Management, which helps customers track spend on the cloud platform, can provide sweet rewards if used correctly and comprehensively, according to candy maker Mars.

By Chris Kanaracus • Nov. 7, 2019

Experts expect AWS re:Invent 2019 to spotlight AI, security and more

Re:Invent 2019 will yet again be heavy on product rollouts. Get ready for the show with a rundown on the topics and technologies our experts predict AWS will spotlight.

By Sarah Neenan • Nov. 7, 2019

Prepare your IT staff for a transition to the cloud

The cloud requires different types of skills compared to on premises. While there's a learning curve to cloud roles, training current staff is a better bet than competing for talent.

By Kathleen Casey • Nov. 7, 2019

AppDefense adoption reconstructs the virtual admin role

Security is critical to many organizations' planning stages, with virtual admins seeing additional security responsibilities as weaknesses in security teams' capabilities emerge.

By Brian Kirsch • Nov. 6, 2019

Integrate applications with these 4 Azure integration tools

Integration can ensure consistent and scalable workflows in cloud applications, even connected to on-premises resources. Evaluate tools and services Azure offers for the task.

By Kathleen Casey • Nov. 6, 2019

Microsoft Azure Arc faces cautiously interested user base

The hybrid cloud offering, announced this week at Ignite, will let users manage across multi-cloud, on-premises and edge environments -- but is it relevant? Customers weigh in.

By Ed Scannell, Chris Kanaracus • Nov. 5, 2019

Amazon SNS vs. other push notification services

It can be difficult for developers to enable push notifications across platforms. These messaging services from AWS, Google and Microsoft meet that need but have different strengths.

By George Lawton • Nov. 5, 2019

Microsoft hybrid cloud strategy expands with Azure Arc

Azure Arc will bring Microsoft's public cloud management tools together for use by customers on any type of infrastructure. The move underscores the drive toward hybrid cloud deployments as customer needs evolve.

By Ed Scannell, Chris Kanaracus • Nov. 4, 2019

How Google Cloud Composer manages workflow orchestration

Before users get started with Google Cloud Composer, a workflow orchestration service, they need to grasp key concepts of the Apache Airflow software that underpins it, including DAGs.

By Kurt Marko • Nov. 4, 2019

Google Cloud networking BYOIP feature could ease migrations

Google Cloud Platform's networking capabilities have gotten a boost with the introduction of bring your own IP addresses, a move aimed to ease cloud migrations for customers.

By Chris Kanaracus • Nov. 1, 2019

Use CloudWatch Container Insights to troubleshoot ECS, EKS

Ensure container-based apps run properly in AWS with CloudWatch Container Insights. Discover how to set up and use this feature for detailed assessments of ECS or EKS workloads.

By Ernesto Marquez • Oct. 31, 2019

Google Cloud Anthos

Google Cloud Anthos is a hybrid, cloud-agnostic container environment.

By Alexander Gillis • Oct. 30, 2019