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Benefits of Amazon SES in the enterprise

Marketing firms and online gaming companies often look for less expensive ways to send bulk email to customers or would-be buyers. Here's a look at what Amazon SES has to offer.

By Russ Vanderpool • Aug. 28, 2014

Five steps to moving mission-critical applications to the cloud

Some enterprises see migrating mission-critical apps to public cloud as an insurmountable obstacle. But, common sense precautions can smooth the transition of even the most crucial workloads.

By Stephen Bigelow • Aug. 28, 2014

Storage vs. database: Moving data to the AWS cloud

David Linthicum reviews the benefits of database choices from Amazon Web Services and the advantages of leveraging object storage like Simple Storage Service as a storage category.

By David Linthicum • Aug. 28, 2014

Setup complexity casts shadow on vRealize multi-cloud management

VMware's vRealize Suite enables companies to manage workloads from multiple public cloud providers, but concerns about deployment complexity have experts questioning its success.

By Nick Martin • Aug. 25, 2014

‘There’s some truth’ to Pivotal PaaS criticism

DevOps pioneer Andrew Clay Shafer, recently hired by Pivotal, says the PaaS provider has some work to do to get its various business units on the same page. He also discusses the hype and reality of DevOps, big data and containers like Docker.

By Trevor Jones • Aug. 12, 2014

Understanding the connection between AWS, DevOps

David Linthicum explains the connection between AWS and DevOps, how it brings together development and operations to produce better applications and reduce the time it takes to improve and deploy them, and the Amazon Web Services that support it.

By David Linthicum • July 31, 2014

Accelerate dynamic content with AWS CloudFront

Use AWS CloudFront to optimize the delivery of static content to users and to accelerate dynamic content. This makes the service more useful for non-video-related apps, such as speeding the distribution of user-generated and personalized content.

By George Lawton • July 31, 2014

Trio of new VMware vCHS features revealed

VMware intends to disclose availability of three major services for vCHS next month -- welcome additions for VMware cloud customers. But industry watchers say the company needs to add much more to compete against AWS, Google and Microsoft.

By Trevor Jones • July 25, 2014

Tracking user activity with AWS CloudTrail

AWS CloudTrail is a Web service that keeps track of AWS API calls in your account and stores logs from multiple accounts and multiple regions in the same S3 bucket. Learn to turn on AWS CloudTrail and to find and read log files.

By Judith Myerson • July 22, 2014

Attain magical five nines availability for cloud applications

Every company seeks the magical five nines -- or 99.999% availability. If major providers can't promise it, how can you get it?

By John Treadway • July 16, 2014

AWS adds logs to CloudWatch, under-prices third-party tools

Amazon Web Service’s new CloudWatch Logs may give IT pros reason to ditch more expensive third party tools such as Splunk, Loggly and Logstash.

By Michelle Boisvert and Adam Hughes • July 11, 2014

Google’s container management project creates Kumbaya moment

Red Hat, Microsoft, IBM, others are backing an open-source effort led by Google to develop a containerization management tool for startup Docker.

By Trevor Jones • July 11, 2014

Virtual switch tweak optimizes ESXi networking

Administrators in an ESXi environment should adjust the networking configuration to prevent slow VM migrations.

By Sander van Vugt • July 11, 2014

AWS mobility swings for the fences, only gets to first base

Not to be outdone by mobile app giants like Google, AWS laid out several mobile features this week.

By Adam Hughes, Michelle Boisvert • July 10, 2014

Dell’s latest tactic centers on cloud broker service

Dell's upcoming cloud broker service is its latest in a string of cloud strategies. Will this one be the winner?

By Trevor Jones • July 8, 2014

AWS vs. Azure face-off: cloud costs, commitments and SLAs

IT pros may find it tough to compare AWS and Azure. But we decode their free and paid plans, as well as costs, SLAs and more.

By Bridget Botelho • June 30, 2014

Monitoring SQS metrics with Amazon CloudWatch

Learn how to use Amazon CloudWatch to monitor and access metrics for a Simple Queue Service.

By Judith Myerson • June 30, 2014

Protecting cloud networks against DDoS and DoS attacks

DDoS and DoS attacks are simple to implement but more difficult to prevent. How can these attacks on cloud services be avoided?

By Dan Sullivan • June 27, 2014

Microsoft, Google claw for cloud market share with AWS

Amazon has dominated the early stages of cloud. With Microsoft and Google getting stronger, can AWS keep a stranglehold on the market in the future?

By David Linthicum • June 27, 2014

AWS certification process calls for experience in the trenches

Real-world experience with Amazon's cloud services is the best prep for AWS certs, and experience trumps passing grades for IT employers.

By Beth Pariseau • June 27, 2014

OpenStack talk of open source town, but is it hype?

OpenStack garnered a lot of hype over the past four years, and many companies got behind the open source platform. Has it met the high expectations?

By David Linthicum • June 25, 2014

Process large data sets quickly with Amazon Elastic MapReduce

Learn how to distribute large amounts of data to Amazon S3 using the Amazon EMR cluster.

By Judith Myerson • June 20, 2014

Cloud competition heating up as Amazon takes aim at VMware

In this podcast, we talk about what the AWS Management Portal for vCenter means for VMware and how to calculate true cloud computing costs.

By Nick Martin • June 19, 2014

Companies undeterred by their cloud data security woes

Many companies say they don't trust their data to cloud security, but that doesn't mean they aren't adopting public cloud.

By David Linthicum • June 12, 2014

White labeling cloud services pros and cons

The decision to white label a vendor's cloud services requires careful consideration. Weigh the pros and cons to decide if it's right for your firm.

By Esther Shein • June 4, 2014