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Building and maintaining a hybrid cloud

• 5 tips to optimize your hybrid cloud management

  Hybrid can be an appealing -- yet daunting -- cloud architecture for IT teams looking for flexibility. Review these five best practices to ensure you maximize the benefits without compromising your workloads. Continue Reading

• Prepare your data center for a hybrid cloud strategy

  On-premises assets and public cloud resources won't work together without a clear hybrid cloud strategy. Learn how to prepare your on-premises architecture for hybrid cloud. Continue Reading

• Follow these hybrid cloud infrastructure best practices

  Although a hybrid cloud approach can seem daunting, it enables enterprises to get the best of both worlds -- if managed correctly. Learn the dos and don'ts of hybrid cloud deployments. Continue Reading

• Latest hybrid cloud services put public cloud into the data center

  AWS, Google and Microsoft provide businesses with more deployment choices with cloud-extension services. See how these offerings can enable hybrid capabilities. Continue Reading

• What are the two types of hybrid cloud infrastructure?

  Hybrid cloud designs are shifting as public cloud providers push on premises with alternatives to a two-vendor approach. Learn the pros and cons of heterogeneous and homogeneous models. Continue Reading

• An IT pro's survival guide for multi-cloud computing

  Enterprises increasingly use multiple cloud providers to achieve their goals. Learn how you could benefit from this model and get a jump-start on a multi-cloud management strategy.Continue Reading

• Map hybrid cloud applications to your VPN address spaces

  Enterprise networks can easily become your Achilles' heel in hybrid cloud. Follow this advice to effectively manage your VPN, as well as scale and redeploy hybrid cloud apps.Continue Reading

• Hybrid cloud security challenges remain tough to overcome

  While hybrid cloud continues to offer significant benefits to the enterprise, it also demands a cohesive security strategy that bridges on-prem and cloud-based systems.Continue Reading

• Cloud management platforms offer a unified approach to hybrid IT

  While more cloud platforms can mean more challenges, the right management platform makes an admin's job easier. But with all the options, how do you know which one to choose?Continue Reading

• Proper hybrid cloud deployment means not repeating old mistakes

  Hybrid cloud usage is on the rise. Before making the jump, ask the right questions about the organization, applications and cloud vendors to ensure a clean transition.Continue Reading

• What hybrid cloud best practices should admins know?

  Hybrid cloud usage is on the rise. Before making the jump, ask the right questions about the organization, applications and cloud vendors to ensure a clean transition.Continue Reading

• Manage a hybrid cloud deployment with these top tips from 2016

  Without an effective management strategy, IT teams can't fully realize the benefits of hybrid cloud. Learn how to tackle network bottlenecks, manage data and more with these tips.Continue Reading

• Minimize risks, downtime during an OpenStack update

  To keep an OpenStack deployment running smoothly and securely, updates and bug fixes are critical. But to perform those updates, IT teams have to do much more than flip a switch.Continue Reading

• Managing a cloud resource pool for hybrid environments

  Cloud sprawl negatively affects enterprises by increasing IT costs and lowering efficiency. And with hybrid clouds, in particular, a fragmented resource pool could be to blame.Continue Reading

• Optimize your enterprise network design for hybrid cloud

  New networking bottlenecks emerge as businesses put more of their workloads into the public cloud. Options such as VPNs, direct connections from cloud providers and internet exchange points can help.Continue Reading

• Optimize your cloud bursting architecture through data duplication

  Cloud bursting gives you the capacity you need during peak times, but won't work unless you properly manage private and public cloud data. Duplication and other strategies can help.Continue Reading

• Optimize hybrid cloud performance with these data management tips

  Hybrid cloud allows organizations to tap into the benefits of both public and private cloud. But how should IT manage data to avoid performance bottlenecks?Continue Reading

• Maximize hybrid cloud benefits through resource, cost management

  Hybrid cloud adoption continues to grow in the enterprise -- but it doesn't come easy. First, IT teams face a number of tough decisions and management challenges.Continue Reading

• Cloud cost management tips for working with multiple vendors

  Using more than one cloud has its benefits, but can also get expensive. To manage costs, examine your providers' data access charges, as well as your application design.Continue Reading

• Adopt complex event processing architecture across hybrid clouds

  Find out how to implement CEP and stream processing across hybrid cloud infrastructure. Expert George Lawton discusses.Continue Reading

• Multicloud computing demands careful planning, management

  When planning for a multicloud deployment, be sure to account for the various management and integration issues that can arise.Continue Reading

• Fend off cloud security threats with five quick links

  Cyberattacks have been keeping cloud admins awake at night. Get a good night's sleep by reviewing these five quick links for cloud security.Continue Reading

• Hybrid cloud management tools improve, but not perfect yet

  Cloud vendors continue to improve their hybrid cloud management tools, but there is still work to be done to give admins a true 'single pane of glass.'Continue Reading

• Cloud spending doesn't need to be a guessing game

  Shadow IT and tough-to-navigate cloud computing bills make it difficult for organizations to get an accurate picture of cloud costs.Continue Reading

• Optimize hybrid cloud environments with these five tips

  Hybrid clouds offer a range of benefits, causing more and more enterprises to climb on board. Follow these quick tips and join the hybrid crowd.Continue Reading

• Reduce hybrid cloud latency with these five tips

  With the right workload design and infrastructure changes, organizations can minimize latency and boost hybrid cloud performance.Continue Reading

• Why a hybrid cloud platform serves modern app development well

  For many enterprise software development teams, adopting a hybrid cloud platform may be the best approach for entering the world of modern application development. Here is why.Continue Reading

• VMware NSX in AWS could fix hybrid cloud networking troubles

  VMware recently previewed NSX integration with AWS, in a move that could have big implications for vCloud Air users deploying hybrid cloud.Continue Reading

• How to optimize dynamic hybrid cloud management

  When it comes to dynamic hybrid cloud management, full automation should be your goal. Cloud expert Tom Nolle offers advice to help you reach that objective.Continue Reading

• Shadow IT risks heightened in hybrid cloud

  While shadow IT applications pose a security risk for every organization, they can especially cause a ruckus in hybrid cloud environments.Continue Reading

• An economic view of public vs. private cloud

  Public vs. private cloud is a common debate among growing enterprises. Dell's Jim Ganthier takes an economic glance at cloud strategies.Continue Reading

• Three hybrid cloud management issues and how to tackle them

  Hybrid cloud gives enterprises the best of private and public cloud worlds. But effective management starts with addressing three key issues.Continue Reading

• Three hybrid cloud advantages that fly under the radar

  While some hybrid cloud advantages, such as greater flexibility, are obvious, others fly under the radar. Are you missing out on hybrid cloud perks?Continue Reading

• Tips on building a hybrid cloud management strategy

  The evolution and increasing popularity of the cloud has led to the development of a hybrid model -- a combination of public and private clouds. The hybrid alternative to the traditional cloud may be the best choice for organizations. Ideally, an ...Continue Reading

• Overcoming complex multi-cloud management challenges

  Deploying multiple cloud platforms offers the enterprise greater flexibility and choice. But multi-cloud management is still a pain point for IT.Continue Reading

• What should I include on my hybrid cloud roadmap?

  Given how rapidly IT evolves, it's tough to shape a long-term cloud strategy. So how can I build a hybrid cloud roadmap that lasts?Continue Reading

• How do I ensure hybrid cloud security and performance?

  Deployment is only half of the hybrid cloud battle. How can I guarantee my hybrid environment is secure and high-performing?Continue Reading

• Is my public cloud provider right for hybrid cloud?

  Not all public cloud providers are created equal. So how can I tell if my provider sets me up for hybrid cloud success?Continue Reading

• Control vital to build a solid hybrid cloud environment

  While many organizations want cloud access control with private cloud, hybrid cloud offers an internal environment coupled with public cloud resources.Continue Reading

• AWS and OpenStack hybrid cloud a balancing act

  Using a mix of services from OpenStack and AWS, one company gained efficiency and agility -- without sacrificing control.Continue Reading

• Hybridized mission-critical apps open new door to cloud

  When end users leave mission-critical apps on-premises, they miss out on the benefits of cloud computing. Hybridizing those apps lets users cash in on the cloud.Continue Reading

• Learning to love the complex multi-cloud

  Multi-clouds come with complexity, but can offer a more cost-efficient and valuable environment. Will enterprise IT learn to love a multi-cloud approach?Continue Reading

• Cutting a public cloud provider out of your hybrid cloud

  Public cloud providers come with the risk of vendor lock-in, poor service and other issues that can derail your hybrid cloud. However, having a backup plan in place rids you of those provider problems.Continue Reading

• Four crucial tips to enhance cloud network performance

  Cloud networks require a lot of maintenance and monitoring. However, simply throwing money at the problem is not the answer for poor performance.Continue Reading

• Hype muddies waters around true hybrid cloud definition

  With all the hype around hybrid cloud, many companies say they're using the model when they're really just using both public and private cloud. What makes it a true hybrid cloud?Continue Reading

• Agile architecture a focal point of next IT revolution

  More organizations are moving toward cloud and becoming more technologically advanced. David Linthicum discusses Agile architecture and its potential impact on the enterprise.Continue Reading

• Managed services separate Rackspace cloud from other vendors

  Despite Rackspace's uncertain future, its cloud continues to be a force in the market, from its OpenStack initiative down to its managed cloud support.Continue Reading

• Workarounds fit the bill for VMware-AWS integration

  Despite AWS' attempts with its management portal for vCenter, integration between the two still remains rocky. Enter: third-party workarounds.Continue Reading

• Designing public cloud applications for a hybrid cloud future

  If you aim for a future in hybrid cloud, consider the four keys to success when designing public cloud applications.Continue Reading

• Could the end of Nirvanix storage mean the end of cloud nirvana?

  Nirvanix's collapse along with recent data privacy news should make enterprise IT wary of going all-in with cloud computing services.Continue Reading

• This year's best advice on building, managing the hybrid cloud model

  There was no shortage of talk in 2013 about getting to a hybrid cloud model. And we have the best advice to help you reach that goal in the next year.Continue Reading

• Seeing platform software through the cloud computing lens

  Selecting the right cloud platform software simplifies migration to a private or hybrid cloud, but the choice is not always black and white.Continue Reading

• Operator errors and inexperience raise cloud computing costs

  What you don't know about cloud computing can cost you, as many IT managers have discovered when trying to control cloud costs.Continue Reading

• Public or private? Picking your hybrid cloud strategy's starting point

  A hybrid cloud strategy begins at one of two starting points: public or private cloud. Your pick could be key to an efficient, economical IT model.Continue Reading

• Hybrid cloud management marked with familiar challenges

  Though often considered a solution for security-wary enterprises, hybrid clouds bring their own issues and familiar management challenges.Continue Reading

• Cost, governance drive enterprise IT to hybrid cloud model

  As shadow IT and increasing cloud bills plague IT departments, enterprises are looking to the hybrid cloud model as a solution to their problems.Continue Reading

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• Using multi-cloud management software to juggle cloud providers

  Some enterprises won't settle for just one cloud -- instead, they're using multi-cloud management software to wrangle a mix of cloud providers.Continue Reading

• How to create a realistic enterprise strategy for cloud computing

  An enterprise cloud computing strategy should be based on what cloud service providers can realistically provide, and on what they cannot.Continue Reading

• Are hybrid clouds a solution to PaaS and SaaS integration issues?

  SaaS and PaaS services create more application integration problems than either IaaS or even private IT. Hybrid clouds can help.Continue Reading

• Managing the hybrid cloud model

  Management tactics shouldn't change just because you have a hybrid cloud. Here are five points every hybrid cloud manager should follow.Continue Reading

• How to deploy and manage a hybrid cloud approach

  A hybrid cloud can be a practical approach to entering the world of cloud computing. There's a lot to consider, though, and the shift is far from simple. This handbook looks specifically at why an organization might choose to go with a hybrid model;...Continue Reading

• Moving development to the cloud not just for IT anymore

  The promised benefits shouldn’t be limited to software companies. Everyone should be able to join in on the savings.Continue Reading

• Hybrid cloud management tools and strategies

  Determining how to manage hybrid clouds can seem daunting. The trick is to identify what you need to manage and the best types of tools for the job.Continue Reading

• The Daily Cloud: VMware and BlueLock build vCloud a la carte

  VMware hosting partner BlueLock opens CloudSuite, creating a takeout menu for cloud computing and banking on paying customers continuing to browse when the free beta ends.Continue Reading

• Zeus aims Cloud Traffic Manager at hybrid cloud

  Software maker Zeus has announced a new product that will bridge application traffic management across private and public clouds.Continue Reading