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Microsoft advances Azure hybrid strategy with Avere deal

Microsoft's acquisition of Avere Systems addresses a shortcoming in Azure storage services and could help steal some business from AWS and GCP.

By Trevor Jones • Jan. 8, 2018

The case for private cloud vs. public cloud implementation

Take security, compliance, cost and scalability into account when deciding between a private and public cloud. Also, think about the future potential of hybrid cloud adoption.

By Stephen Bigelow • Jan. 8, 2018

The future of AWS holds new tech, heated competition

As the world rings in a new year, AWS moves forward in a contentious cloud market. Our experts speculate whether edge, IoT and machine learning will help AWS maintain its lead.

By Tim Culverhouse • Jan. 8, 2018

Meltdown and Spectre target cloud computing environments

Hackers could target cloud computing environments to exploit the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, but AWS, Microsoft and Google say their fixes are enough to bar the doors.

By Ed Scannell • Jan. 5, 2018

Execute PowerCLI commands to manage VMware infrastructure

PowerCLI cmdlets like Get-VM can be built out to obtain information about VMs in a VMware infrastructure, including those with attached CD-ROMs and those with snapshots.

By Stuart Burns • Jan. 5, 2018

Azure App Service Isolated boosts security and PaaS performance

Aimed at organizations with unique security needs, Azure App Service Environment v2 lets applications run in a dedicated network without sacrificing scale or performance.

By Alan Earls • Jan. 5, 2018

Master the basics of Azure Automation

Automation offers a more efficient, hands-off approach to public cloud management. Explore the basics of Azure's automation service and the role of runbooks.

By Stuart Burns • Jan. 4, 2018

Four ways the container ecosystem will evolve in 2018

The container market constantly evolves, as new technologies and uses emerge. See what the new year will bring with these four container predictions around IoT, Windows and more.

By Chris Tozzi • Jan. 4, 2018

Aurora Serverless leads next wave of cloud database features

IT teams face a notoriously difficult task when it comes to database scaling and management. New Amazon Aurora features can ease some of these woes and potentially reduce costs.

By Ofir Nachmani • Jan. 3, 2018

Amazon QuickSight tutorial: Get started with data analysis

While Amazon QuickSight comes with some tradeoffs that data scientists should note, this tutorial walks you through key features that might be of interest to your analytics team.

By Walker Rowe • Jan. 2, 2018

Common Amazon EBS performance issues, and how to troubleshoot them

Having EBS trouble? You're not alone. Use these troubleshooting tips to work through common EBS issues, such as stuck volumes and slow performance.

By Kurt Marko • Dec. 15, 2017

Build an application migration plan step by step

To migrate apps to the cloud, start with nonessential workloads and move to more mission-critical ones from there. But, remember, some apps might not be suited for cloud at all.

By Paul Korzeniowski • Dec. 11, 2017

What is a Helm Chart and how can it improve microservices?

Learn about Helm Charts and how Kubernetes supports a microservices architecture. Expert Ken Milberg discusses what you need to know before delving in.

By Kenneth Milberg • Dec. 11, 2017

Crack open Google Cloud Shell for infrastructure management

Shell commands and Bash scripts have been a staple of system administration, and for those who still prefer that management approach, Cloud Shell on GCP might be worth a look.

By Kurt Marko • Dec. 8, 2017

Explore the benefits, tradeoffs of GPU instances in cloud

While GPU instances can give compute-intensive apps the processing boost they need, not all workloads -- or budgets -- will benefit from these cloud instance types.

By Kathleen Casey • Dec. 6, 2017

OpenStack Swift

OpenStack Swift, also known as OpenStack Object Storage, is an open source object storage system that is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license and runs on standard server hardware.

By Carol Sliwa • Nov. 30, 2017

What are the best SDK tools for automating blockchain services?

As blockchain matures, an ecosystem of tools continues to sprout up around it. Learn how these offerings, including the Hyperledger Fabric Client SDK, can help with a deployment.

By Kenneth Milberg • Nov. 29, 2017

Rearchitect applications for cloud with these five tips

It's difficult to fully realize the benefits of cloud computing when you simply migrate an app as is. Instead, consider rearchitecting your app -- and start with these five steps.

By Tom Nolle • Nov. 20, 2017

Test your knowledge of these core OpenStack components

The OpenStack platform contains a mix of services for compute, networking, security and more. See if you can identify which service performs which function with this quick quiz.

By Kathleen Casey • Nov. 3, 2017

Cloud data backup services minimize outage, security risks

Backups are critical in any cloud strategy, but where you store that data is just as important. Explore these automated backup tools and services to avoid risks later.

By Jim O'Reilly • Nov. 2, 2017

CloudFormation StackSets drive cross-account automation

AWS gave its automation capabilities a boost with the release of CloudFormation StackSets, a feature that lets dev teams deploy stacks across multiple accounts and regions.

By Mike Pfeiffer • Oct. 31, 2017

Use OpenStack Senlin, Heat templates to enable autoscaling

As it is with other cloud platforms, autoscaling in OpenStack is important to meet changing workload demands. Here's how to enable that process with Senlin and Heat templates.

By Sander van Vugt • Oct. 27, 2017

Compare two types of cloud automation and orchestration tools

There are two camps of tools for automation and orchestration in cloud: provider-native and third-party. To pick the right one, know your future needs, especially for multi-cloud.

By Alan Earls • Oct. 26, 2017

Work Lambda into Amazon SQS queues to prevent backlogs

Amazon SQS enables users to process and track tasks in a queue. Combine it with Lambda and CloudWatch to add extra message processing functionality.

By Chris Moyer • Oct. 24, 2017

Learn the basics of Azure Container Instances

The popularity of containers continues to prompt major cloud providers to offer new services. See how Azure's most recent release -- Container Instances -- aims to ease deployment.

By Mike Pfeiffer • Oct. 24, 2017