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The Troposphere
Expert IT advice and practitioners’ commentary on all aspects of cloud computing.
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What AWS and Azure’s cloud market growth says about IT
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Microsoft Build 2019 agenda reveals .NET, Azure insights
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Google Cloud CEO Kurian conducts enterprise-savvy concert at Google Next
- Community Member 10 Apr 2019
Amazon and Microsoft's cloud market revenues continue to grow at a torrid pace, reflecting IT departments' increased comfort and reliance on cloud computing services. Azure revenue, which is ...
Microsoft's Build conference for developers and IT operations professionals is just a few weeks away, but a close look at the session catalog reveals clues to the event's likely highlights. Here's ...
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian's keynote at the Google Next show delivered a measured balance aimed to resonate with large enterprises as they weigh various cloud strategy options.
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Must-attend cloud conferences in the second half of 2019
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Google Cloud Next 2019 agenda tips enterprise ambitions
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AI democracy, hybrid clouds top IBM Think takeaways
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Google cloud head Kurian tips off future Google cloud plans
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Five cloud migration themes at IBM Think
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Oracle vet Kurian will make Google Cloud more enterprise-savvy
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Three events that spooked cloud admins in 2018
- Site Editor 29 Oct 2018
Ready to expand your knowledge and skill sets? Check out these popular cloud conferences from April to December 2019.
Google's Cloud Next 2019 conference is coming up and the event session catalog illuminates some of the top priorities for the Google Cloud Platform. Here's a look at some notable talks slated for ...
IBM's extension of its Watson AI services beyond the IBM Cloud to users on other cloud platforms impressed IBM Think attendees, but is it ready for enterprise use? Meanwhile, IBM's hybrid cloud and ...
Thomas Kurian has kept a low profile since he replaced Diane Greene as CEO of Google's cloud division -- until now. The longtime former Oracle executive spoke publicly for the first time as ...
The IBM Think conference will provide insight into Big Blue's current and future cloud agenda, which now focuses on private and multi-cloud scenarios. Like many legacy IT vendors, IBM has struggled ...
Executive appointments happen all the time in the enterprise tech industry, but some have the potential to transform an organization. Oracle veteran Thomas Kurian hired as the next CEO of Google ...
So far this year, outages, security breaches and GDPR compliance have haunted cloud admins in the enterprise. Take a closer peek at each of these three big scares.
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Learn from these Microsoft's Azure outage postmortem takeaways
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Want the new Google hybrid cloud? You'll need a middleman
- Senior Site Editor 27 Jul 2018 -
Walmart's cloud strategy sticks by OpenStack, despite Azure migration
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Google needs to win enterprise confidence at cloud conference
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Cloud conferences to pencil in for the second half of 2018
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Edge devices' compute demands complicate cloud IoT choices
- Senior Site Editor 21 Jun 2018 -
JEDI cloud contract looms large for customers, providers
- Senior Site Editor 06 Jun 2018 -
Cloud-centric IBM patents promise payoff
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Prepare for these cloud computing technologies in 2018
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Cloud conferences to check out in the first half of 2018
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Awareness of shared-responsibility model is critical to cloud success
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How Azure actually works, courtesy of Mark Russinovich
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Amazon does not oversubscribe
- TechTarget 07 Oct 2010
Microsoft shed more light on last week's major Azure outage that generally confirm what everyone already knew - a storm near the Azure South Central US region knocked cooling systems offline and ...
The much ballyhooed Google hybrid cloud architecture earned plaudits for its unique approach, but what didn't get much attention was who will sell and manage it on-premises. Spoiler alert: it's not ...
Walmart's cloud deployment strategy takes a big turn to Microsoft Azure, but it won't leave OpenStack completely in the dust. A five-year deal to make Microsoft Azure the preferred cloud provider ...
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) has become a more robust and reliable public cloud in recent years but still has nowhere near the enterprise mindshare afforded to fellow hyperscale platforms AWS and ...
Want to expand your cloud skills, gain industry insights and network with other pros? Consider these conferences and events throughout the second half of the year.
Cloud vendors want companies to use their platforms for the full scope of their IoT deployments, but that might not be their best choice. As edge computing emerges as part of IoT deployments, users ...
Public sector IT and private sector IT can be very different animals, but a looming decision by the Department of Defense has the potential to send shock waves through both sides of the IT world. ...
IBM plans to commercialize investments in cloud R&D into products, services and tools that draw new customers.
Not sure what to expect, exactly, in the cloud computing market in 2018? Three of our Advisory Board members share their top predictions.
For beginners and experts alike, cloud conferences are a good way to gain industry knowledge and sharpen your skills. Here are some to pencil in over the next several months.
When companies move to the cloud, it's paramount that they know where the provider's security role ends and where the customer's begins. The shared-responsibility model is one of the fundamental ...
Mark Russinovich -- Microsoft technical fellow, a lead on the Azure platform and a renowned Windows expert -- took pains at PDC '10 (Watch the "Inside Windows Azure" session here) to lay out a ...
Amazon CTO Werner Vogels said on Twitter that AWS does not oversubscribe its services. "If you launch an instance type you get the performance you ask (and pay) for, period. No oversubscription," ...