The Troposphere

February 2009

IBM pushes cloud plans, partnerships
Jo Maitland - TechTarget 12 Feb 2009

If anyone can solve the problems associated with selling cloud computing to enterprises, it should be IBM. Today the company announced a step in that direction with a slew of new services and ...

Amazon claims 400,000 web services users
Jo Maitland - TechTarget 03 Feb 2009

An industry insider close to Amazon's Web Services (AWS) business unit told us the company claims to have 400,000 customers using its web services offering. AWS includes EC2, the compute-on-demand ...

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Hybrid cloud vs. private cloud: What's the difference?

Private clouds, which are owned and operated by the business, provide security, but they have certain limitations. Hybrid clouds ...

Hybrid cloud advantages and disadvantages explained

Hybrid cloud is touted as providing the best of both private and public clouds, but this type of infrastructure comes with its ...

Best practices for sizing a server

Serving sizing requires a number of comparisons, especially between having a few large servers or many popcorn servers. Compare ...

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Use iSCSI storage for VMware to create a data store

Administrators can create a data store in vSphere with iSCSI storage. It's a relatively cheap, fully supported option, but it ...

Use Ansible in vSphere to automate management tasks

Ansible is a powerful tool to simplify and automate management duties in VMware vSphere environments. Ansible eases VM ...

VMware IoT services wield IT ties for device management

VMware is positioning itself in the emerging IoT market with a combination of device management services and complementary ...

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The go-to guide for managing VDI users

VDI shops can help keep their end users happy by using user profile management to enable personalization and by taking advantage ...

Buy the right desktop and application virtualization product

Virtualizing both desktops and applications can increase productivity, agility and mobility within a company. Discover the ...

Understand the benefits of user profile management software

Profile management tools can be valuable assets to address failure recovery, migration support, KPI improvement, as well as ...

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Amazon FreeRTOS aims to simplify, secure IoT deployment

Operational technology teams have been slow to update microcontroller software due to safety and logistics concerns, but Amazon ...

Test your knowledge of GDPR rights and AWS data protection

Is your enterprise GDPR-compliant? Take this quick quiz to test your knowledge of the EU regulation, as well as relevant AWS data...

Support for Node.js in AWS Lambda slowly, but surely, evolves

Developers who need the latest version of Node.js for a serverless platform might turn to Lambda rivals to meet that need. But ...

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Guide to buying server performance monitoring software

Integration, storage and vendor support all affect whether a performance monitoring tool is right for an organization. Mull over ...

How IBM's data science team quickens users' AI projects

In this Q&A, IBM's Seth Dobrin discusses the rising user interest in machine learning and AI projects and the help inexperienced ...

IBM blockchain technology spotlights mainframes

IBM's blockchain offerings aim to ease enterprise IT concerns by combining Z system mainframe hardware with industry-specific ...

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Azure PowerShell cmdlets monitor, manage VMs

PowerShell gives administrators a way to customize reports that hone in on the details that matter to the business, such as the ...

Windows out-of-band patches overshadow April Patch Tuesday

Microsoft delivered out-of-band security patches to address the Total Meltdown and malware engine exploits as a precursor to its ...

Microsoft Project Honolulu shows promise but needs work

Microsoft Project Honolulu is still in the technical preview stage, but it needs to resolve a number of issues before it's a ...

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Measure your digital marketing ROI, keep your job

Oracle customers weigh in on executive's hypothesis that analytics can now prove ROI of the martech stack -- or soon will -- and ...

Oracle CX Cloud adds AI tools for B2C, B2B customers

Oracle announces infusion of its Adaptive Intelligent apps into several CX Cloud products and promises more to come, with sales, ...

Marketing automation platforms merge CRM and content

Building a martech stack includes a main automation hub such as Marketo, Eloqua, HubSpot or Pardot. Then comes the hard part: ...