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• Control the cloud bill and avoid unexpected costs

  Don't get discouraged by high cloud costs. Use these four tips to whip your bill into shape. Continue Reading

• How to replicate Azure resources for speed, agility

  There isn't a one-click tool to quickly clone full-stack application environments in Microsoft Azure, but these techniques can make the process easier. Continue Reading

• Secure data in the cloud with encryption and access controls

  Enterprises can't rely on their IaaS provider to protect sensitive information in the cloud. Implement these data security techniques to mitigate potential risks. Continue Reading

• 5 best ways to minimize cloud scaling costs

  Many factors can contribute to a high public cloud bill -- one of which is scalability. Apply these five practices to effectively scale cloud resources without breaking the bank. Continue Reading

• How to use Azure Site Recovery Deployment Planner

  A successful disaster recovery procedure is more complicated than most people think. Learn how an Azure service can streamline the process of VM replication and failover. Continue Reading

• IBM multi-cloud portfolio grows with more tools, acquisitions

  IBM continues to build out its multi-cloud management portfolio, but it's still far from alone in a highly competitive market.Continue Reading

• Compare Docker containers vs. VMs for app dev environments

  While there are important technical distinctions between VMs and containers, the reasons developers opt for the latter are often more philosophical, or cultural, in nature.Continue Reading

• Assess native cloud monitoring tools from top IaaS providers

  Monitoring tools from Google, AWS and Azure all share a common goal: help developers optimize application performance. But they also have key differences that users should note.Continue Reading

• Control resource sprawl in multi-cloud architectures

  Resource sprawl can occur quickly and easily in a multi-cloud deployment. Learn how to dodge this costly, yet common, issue with these five best practices.Continue Reading

• Azure Reserved Instances boost flexibility around VM size

  A recent Azure update for Reserved Instances offers enterprises increased flexibility in terms of VM size, but it also comes with some additional management tasks.Continue Reading

• Support for SaaS applications demands a hands-on approach

  While they reduce some management burdens for enterprise IT teams, SaaS apps don't exactly run on autopilot, either. Be sure to put a proper support model in place.Continue Reading

• The first 5 steps to build a private cloud infrastructure

  To implement a private cloud, IT teams must start at the beginning -- and define what a cloud strategy will mean, exactly, to their organization -- before they proceed.Continue Reading

• Cost management the next big issue in multi-cloud computing

  Multi-cloud computing continues to make its way into the enterprises and, as it does, introduces some significant cost management challenges.Continue Reading

• Take responsibility for SaaS application security

  Can't keep up with cloud app security hardening? Experts say it's time to implement DevSecOps initiatives and look to third-party security tools and services.Continue Reading

• Establish a data classification model for cloud encryption

  Not all data requires the same level of encryption. Use data classification to gauge your security needs, including for workloads that span on-premises and cloud environments.Continue Reading

• Map application dependencies to prepare for cloud migration

  The practices a development team puts in place to manage dependencies before a move to the cloud will determine how smoothly apps run long after they get there.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

• Avoid runaway costs to keep a cloud budget in check

  Wasteful spending is still a prominent issue for enterprises in the cloud. Admins need to do their homework -- before migration -- to rein in runaway cloud costs.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

• How to get the most out of automation in the cloud

  Getting the most out of a cloud deployment will almost certainly require some automation and orchestration. And that will require some specific actions on your part.Continue Reading

• Let cloud orchestration tools do the hard work

  A smart cloud strategy requires a smart automation strategy. These steps will help position your cloud to benefit from automation and orchestration technologies.Continue Reading

• Build a CI/CD pipeline to simplify multi-cloud deployment

  While some cloud providers support simple app deployment processes and tools, they could hinder a multi-cloud model. Fortunately, there are some workarounds.Continue Reading

• An OpenStack management guide for the enterprise

  The OpenStack platform brings unique management challenges for IT teams. Use this essential guide to break down the key do's and don'ts of OpenStack management in the enterprise.Continue Reading

• Don't let scalability ruin a cloud cost management strategy

  Scalability is one of the cloud's biggest advantages, but misuse of the feature can cost you. Pay special attention to these three rules to avoid unwanted billing surprises.Continue Reading

• Compare management options for Google Kubernetes Engine

  Google supports various management options for its Kubernetes Engine service, and while each has its pros and cons, you should base your decision largely on experience.Continue Reading

• Accounting for cloud computing costs requires a new approach

  As cloud waste takes a big bite out of IT budgets, cloud administrators must shift their spending mindsets and consider management tools to help avoid unnecessary costs.Continue Reading

• How to secure a multi-cloud architecture

  If they don't already, most organizations will soon have resources deployed to more than one cloud. That requires an aggressive strategy and multiple levels of security.Continue Reading

• Structure public cloud accounts for optimal resource tracking

  As enterprises move to public IaaS or broaden their existing deployments, cloud account management gets tricky. Follow this example to find the structure that works best for you.Continue Reading

• Four tips to manage costs in a multi-cloud architecture

  For some enterprises, it's difficult enough to manage and optimize the costs of a single cloud platform. And in a multi-cloud environment, those challenges only increase.Continue Reading

• Prep an OpenStack private cloud for a multi-cloud deployment

  Enterprises with an OpenStack private cloud can still jump on the multi-cloud bandwagon. But they should prepare for challenges around data management and platform compatibility.Continue Reading

• Choose a loosely coupled architecture for DevOps success

  To successfully pivot your organization toward DevOps and cloud, carefully evaluate and fine-tune your architecture first, and then think about tool sets.Continue Reading

• Bolster a multi-cloud strategy with these three technologies

  While much of the optimization for multi-cloud needs to happen at the application layer, there are technologies that ease a multi-cloud deployment without requiring code changes.Continue Reading

• Manage Azure resources with these top tips of 2017

  Looking to brush up on your Azure management skills? Check out these top tips from SearchCloudComputing in 2017 to more effectively manage VMs, APIs and more.Continue Reading

• Choose cloud integration tools based on application model

  An application's architecture greatly affects its integration abilities. Review three popular cloud app models, potential integration challenges and tools that can help.Continue Reading

• Compare machine vs. deep learning services in the cloud

  Machine learning and deep learning increasingly make their way into the enterprise. Assess which AI technology is right for you, and the public cloud services that support them.Continue Reading

• Create action items with a predictive cloud analytic project

  Expert Tom Nolle discusses how using a predictive cloud analytic project can help with future -- and current -- cloud computing performance and management issues.Continue Reading

• Implement a data purge strategy to reduce public cloud costs

  When you hold on to old data, cloud storage costs can become increasingly steep. Learn to let go with a formal policy for cloud data purges.Continue Reading

• Multi-cloud computing demands careful IT cost allocation

  A multi-cloud environment has its benefits, but without proper management, cost allocation gets tough. Follow these tips for resource tagging, budget alerts and more.Continue Reading

• Cloud data backup services minimize outage, security risks

  Backups are critical in any cloud strategy, but where you store that data is just as important. Explore these automated backup tools and services to avoid risks later.Continue Reading

• Get the most bang for your buck in multi-cloud architecture

  Learn how multi-cloud architecture can help with digital transformation, despite how many single-cloud structures exist. Expert Chris Tozzi talks security, availability and cost.Continue Reading

• Use cloud efficiently in a predictive analytics project

  Learn how using cloud computing for a predictive analytics project can help with streamlining workflow, application scaling and deployment. Expert Tom Nolle explains.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

• Build and test a cloud-based disaster recovery plan

  A disaster recovery plan is essential to protect critical workloads in the cloud, but unless you perform regular and extensive tests, that plan might let you down.Continue Reading

• Which PaaS platforms support production needs best?

  Need a PaaS platform with strong production support? Explore production support and SLAs of AWS Elastic Beanstalk, IBM Bluemix, Google App Engine and Microsoft Azure.Continue Reading

• What are the best database services for PaaS offerings?

  When you move to PaaS for your web-based apps, remember to think about database services. Consider the benefits of moving your database to a fully supported cloud infrastructure.Continue Reading

• How do I choose a web development framework for PaaS?

  Making sure that your PaaS offering and the web development framework of your choice agree can be tricky. Learn how to choose the best framework for your enterprise needs.Continue Reading

• How to conduct performance testing using VSTS and Microsoft Azure

  Performance testing using VSTS and Azure helps you collect critical data and know what to expect from your apps. Here's how to get started.Continue Reading

• Simplify OpenStack installation with Ansible playbooks

  OpenStack offers enterprises increased flexibility, but deployment is tough. Discover how Ansible playbooks can streamline installation and management of the open source platform.Continue Reading

• Build a cloud provisioning portal your users actually want

  Cloud admins should ensure a self-service provisioning portal not only enforces policies but is simple for users to navigate -- otherwise, they leave the door open for shadow IT.Continue Reading

• Manage containers in cloud computing to prevent sprawl, cut costs

  Too much of a good thing, including cloud containers, can cost you more in public cloud. Review three options to prevent container sprawl -- and the high price tag that comes with it.Continue Reading

• Optimize a public cloud storage service with these performance tips

  Public cloud providers have a limited lineup of storage services, which makes optimization a challenge. Use these tips to boost performance and ensure your workloads run smoothly.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

• Guarantee data consistency for hybrid cloud backup and disaster recovery

  For backup and disaster recovery to work successfully, data must be in sync. These tricks help IT teams ensure data consistency.Continue Reading

• Ensure your serverless apps can scale with these deployment tips

  Scalability is a major goal for many IT shops, and serverless applications can help them achieve it. First, there are challenges, including load balancing, that they need to address.Continue Reading

• Infuse more flexibility into OpenStack Heat templates

  OpenStack admins use Heat templates to streamline cloud resource deployment. What are the templates' main components, and how can we use them in more flexible ways?Continue Reading

• Why it's time to implement secure API best practices

  APIs are everywhere, and that's just one reason they're so difficult to keep secure. Expert Tom Nolle outlines a detailed, multipart security strategy.Continue Reading

• Be ready for extra work when you manage multiple clouds

  No one wants to get locked into one cloud provider for years and years. But that doesn't mean multicloud is an easy choice either; take the time to ensure it makes sense.Continue Reading

• Multiple clouds solve some complexities and add others

  Businesses that use multiple cloud providers avoid vendor lock-in. But they also give IT admins a lot more to think about, and tools don't always cut through the confusion.Continue Reading

• Assess the benefits and risks of compliance as a service

  With compliance as a service, organizations can lean more heavily on their cloud providers to ensure adherence with certain regulations -- but not without some risk.Continue Reading

• How do OpenStack Neutron, Dragonflow enable SDN?

  As the OpenStack community continues to advance its software-defined networking capabilities, what role will the Neutron and Dragonflow components play?Continue Reading

• Avoid steep network integration costs in multicloud

  While a VPN is useful for multicloud networks, IT teams still need to be careful to avoid high traffic charges, as applications move from one provider to another.Continue Reading

• Evolve vendor, cost management strategies for use with multiple clouds

  When you adopt multicloud, you align with multiple vendors -- and complications arise. Follow these steps to manage cloud provider negotiations, create polices and optimize costs.Continue Reading

• Optimize your public cloud cost management strategy

  Businesses often tout lower costs as a benefit of public cloud, but without proper management and monitoring, costs can climb quickly. Learn how to keep your spending in check.Continue Reading

• How to modify rules in a default OpenStack security group

  OpenStack security groups allow admins to control traffic into cloud computing instances. But is it possible to change the rules within a default group?Continue Reading

• Choose the best public cloud instances for your apps and budget

  Cloud computing instances can make or break application performance -- and costs. Evaluate your workloads to determine the right instance type and size before deployment.Continue Reading

• No-code/low-code project management best practices

  Before setting your no-code/low-code product into motion, you must prepare your organization. Expert Zach Flower discusses the importance of collaboration and communication.Continue Reading

• Evolve your cloud cost management strategy for serverless computing

  Serverless computing can save enterprises money, but only for certain applications. Know your workload patterns, test processing times and use a cost calculator to stay on track.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

• The best enterprise use cases for mobile backend as a service

  Mobile development is tricky and harder still when trying to integrate it with an enterprise platform. MBaaS has the potential to simplify things. Expert Tom Nolle explains.Continue Reading

• What are some ways to stop and restart OpenStack instances?

  Admins can pause, suspend, shelve or stop a compute instance in OpenStack. But what are the key differences between each option?Continue Reading

• Select the right cloud regions, availability zones to optimize costs

  Cloud computing can bring a multitude of unexpected costs. To stay within budget, evaluate the costs associated with regions and availability zones.Continue Reading

• Cloud and DevOps practices help make app development a breeze

  Merging DevOps with the cloud improves application development strategies. Learn how to create the perfect cloud and DevOps environment for efficient app development.Continue Reading

• To manage multiple clouds, look to automation

  Using multiple clouds can help an organization achieve added resiliency and flexibility. The strategy might even save on costs. Still, the multi-cloud approach is complicated.Continue Reading

• Explore the latest options for Azure public cloud management

  Microsoft has revamped and expanded features to streamline Azure management. Check out these five tips on Azure tools, automation and more to fine-tune your management process.Continue Reading

• Oscars flub evokes recent cloud-computing snafus

  Now that La La Land, er, Moonlight has won the Oscar for best picture, let's look back at some cloud computing flubs. May we all learn from our mistakes.Continue Reading

• What are some warnings signs I need bigger cloud computing instances?

  Choosing a cloud instance is not an easy task, and picking the wrong size can cost you in the long run. What are some red flags that suggest I need a larger instance type?Continue Reading

• Digital transformation strategy puts BizDevOps into action

  BizOps isn't enough. Add business operations and provide application performance monitoring and the result is BizDevOps, a key component in building a digital transformation strategy.Continue Reading

• How microservices and cloud application performance fit together

  Microservices can be your best friend when it comes to cloud application development, but they can also be detrimental. Expert Tom Nolle shares what to focus on.Continue Reading

• Build cloud web services with microservices

  Building cloud web services with microservices provides benefits, such as scalability, and allows enterprise apps to access new features and tools. Follow these steps for success.Continue Reading

• Automation's role in moving cloud workloads through a multi-cloud world

  To effectively manage a multi-cloud environment, consider both the application structures and your deployment choices. Automation helps, but be strategic about workload decisions.Continue Reading

• Set up an identity and access management system for public cloud

  To increase security and monitor user access to public cloud resources such as compute and APIs, admins can use federated identity and access management.Continue Reading

• Reduce the costs of cloud computing heading into 2017

  Factors ranging from resource sprawl to a lack of coordination can make cloud computing costs unnecessarily high. Trim your expenses with these cost-cutting tips.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

• Things to consider before extending .NET cloud development

  In order to ensure the supporting role of .NET in development and deployment either enforce .NET middleware use on all developments or adopt component integration strategy.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

• Security issues in cloud computing

  While the cloud may be flexible and cost-efficient, a lack of data safeguards and compliance standards makes security the largest hurdle to leap.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

• Google's Stackdriver taps into growing multicloud trend

  A clear trend has emerged around public cloud adoption in the enterprise: organizations increasingly employ a mix of different cloud services, rather than go all in with one. As that movement ...Continue Reading

• IoT, outages show importance of a cloud backup and recovery strategy

  As IoT and big data systems proliferate, IT teams need to store and protect more data in the cloud. To meet those needs, and avoid data loss, rethink cloud backup and recovery.Continue Reading

• Why are so few enterprises implementing automated software release management?

  Why are we breaking our necks to develop apps faster if we're not any good at shipping the code out the door?Continue Reading

• Microsoft supports open NativeScript language to boost TypeScript

  As developers move to open source tools, Microsoft has aligned its own TypeScript with the NativeScript language and opened up its Graph API, allowing apps to interact with Office 365.Continue Reading

• Don't migrate apps to the cloud without considering the costs

  For many organizations, the public cloud is a way to cut costs -- but some apps may be costing you more in the cloud than you think. Find out which enterprise apps are better left on premises.Continue Reading

• Which Microsoft tools can help me migrate to Azure?

  There are a number of Microsoft tools that can monitor workload performance. But which tools can help gauge if my apps are ready to migrate to the Azure public cloud?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

• Using Azure Site Recovery for cloud DR, backup

  Services like Azure Site Recovery can simplify the cloud backup and disaster recovery process, but smaller IT shops may want to opt for a SaaS-based alternative instead.Continue Reading

• Use cloud auto scaling, tagging to give unneeded resources the boot

  Auto scaling services help admins identify underused resources and reduce public cloud costs. Learn how load balancing and tagging can maximize those benefits.Continue Reading

• Here's how in-memory computing just became cloud's new BFF

  Storage and the cloud don't always go hand in hand. That's where in-memory computing comes in. Expert Christopher Tozzi explains how to take advantage of these new cloud options.Continue Reading

• How to succeed with hybrid cloud application integration

  In a hybrid cloud environment, it can be tricky to ensure all of your applications play nicely together. Expert Tom Nolle helps you think through the process.Continue Reading

• Multi-cloud model more than just a risk mitigation strategy

  Initially, organizations adopted multi-cloud as part of their risk mitigation strategy. But today, it's about portability, flexibility and so much more.Continue Reading

• How can I reduce private cloud costs during and after deployment?

  Whether using OpenStack, Azure Stack, or another private cloud platform, there are a number of hardware and tuning decisions IT pros can make to save some cash.Continue Reading