Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutes Cost savings is one of the main reasons that companies decide to migrate to a cloud environment. Cloud computing can offer organizations potential financial advantages in a few ways; however, it’s important to understand the full implications of cloud pricing, and how it can affect companies. By Linda Rosencrance How Do Providers Determine Cloud Costs? The main factors cloud service providers
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutes Hybrid IT is an approach to enterprise computing in which an organization provides and manages some information technology (IT) resources in-house but uses cloud-based services for others. By Katie Terrell Hanna A hybrid approach allows an enterprise to maintain a centralized approach to IT governance while exploiting the benefits of cloud computing. Hybrid IT vs. hybrid cloud The term hybrid IT
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutes Even if you already moved a few workloads to the cloud, it’s never too early to start looking at where you are going and never too late to make a change. See if IaaS or SaaS is the right service model for your organization. By Brian Kirsch Once you decide to move to the cloud, the next step is determining
Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutes Learn how load balancing in the cloud differs from a traditional network traffic distribution, and explore services available from AWS, Google and Microsoft. By Stephen J. Bigelow To understand the value and behavior of load balancing, consider a visit to your local bank. If only one teller is available, every customer must rely on the services of that one teller,
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutes Bare-metal cloud is a public cloud service where the customer rents dedicated hardware resources from a remote service provider. It offers the hardware resources without any installed operating systems or virtualization infrastructure. By Kurt Marko and Erin Sullivan Commercial cloud service infrastructure enables the virtualization and subdivision of compute, storage and database resources so that servers and storage arrays can
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutes If you jumped to the cloud at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, without much long-term planning, take some time now to evaluate your current cloud strategy. By Chris Tozzi The coronavirus pandemic accelerated the pace of cloud adoption, and it’s easy to see why. Cloud platforms add flexibility and reliability, which are valuable assets in unpredictable times. They also
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutes What’s the difference between monitoring and observability? Learn what observability means in the context of cloud and why it’s important to the health of your application. By Tom Nolle Many people in IT operations wonder how cloud observability differs from the monitoring tools and approaches enterprises already have in place. Some speculate that observability is just another attempt to stir industry interest
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutes Enterprises are using multiple clouds, but not because they’re afraid of lock-in. See why they’re being smarter about cloud selection and forgoing portability in favor of speed. By Trevor Jones Vendor lock-in has long been the boogeyman of cloud computing, but enterprises no longer fear it like they once did. Organizations become concerned about lock-in when they feel they can’t easily move
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutes If you jumped to the cloud at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, without much long-term planning, take some time now to evaluate your current cloud strategy. By Chris Tozzi The coronavirus pandemic accelerated the pace of cloud adoption, and it’s easy to see why. Cloud platforms add flexibility and reliability, which are valuable assets in unpredictable times. They also
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