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Cloud application monitoring and performance

• July 16, 2018 16 Jul'18

  Microsoft bills Azure network as the hub for remote offices

  Azure Virtual WAN is Microsoft's bid to play in the emerging SD-WAN space, as it seeks to solve users' networking problems while it adds new customers.

• June 20, 2018 20 Jun'18

  Unchecked cloud IoT costs can quickly spiral upward

  IoT sensors can produce seemingly endless streams of data, so users must beware how much to send back to the cloud to avoid jaw-dropping monthly bills.

• April 11, 2018 11 Apr'18

  Flow logs sharpen visibility into GCP network

  Google Cloud juiced up its networking capabilities with the addition of VPC Flow Logs. It's an important feature for enterprises accustomed to these insights on their own networks.

• January 05, 2018 05 Jan'18

  Meltdown and Spectre target cloud computing environments

  Hackers could target cloud computing environments to exploit the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, but AWS, Microsoft and Google say their fixes are enough to bar the doors.

• October 31, 2017 31 Oct'17

  Rollbar snags $6 million for error monitoring

  Error monitoring software-as-a-service provider Rollbar has secured $6 million in venture capital funding to advance its software and grow the organization.

• August 28, 2017 28 Aug'17

  Lift-and-shift approach is outmoded for cloud migration

  Lift-and-shift approaches to cloud migration have lost their cache, as enterprises learn they need to rearchitect their apps to work best on the public cloud.

• June 22, 2016 22 Jun'16

  Scalable systems monitoring helps developers build better apps faster

  Developers want to create better apps faster. Static clouds are giving way to scalable systems, with dynamic resource allocation and application monitoring.

• January 21, 2016 21 Jan'16

  Cloud outage audit update: The challenges with uptime

  Public cloud vendors improved uptime percentages in 2015, while customers have learned to better handle cloud outages and what works best in their environments.

• October 20, 2015 20 Oct'15

  Solve performance woes with app monitoring

  JavaOne speaker Chris Hansen of New Relic previews his discussion about the benefits of conducting performance app monitoring.

• October 16, 2015 16 Oct'15

  What if you build it and no one comes?

  Application development isn't easy. That's why the profession of software engineering is so valued and why talented cloud and mobile app developers -- like you -- are continually sought after. That ...

• September 04, 2015 04 Sep'15

  Can your cloud apps handle interrupted transactions?

  When someone using your mobile cloud app begins a transaction and communications is unexpectedly lost, what happens on both the device and server sides when that break is detected? And what actions ...

• July 15, 2015 15 Jul'15

  Squeezing the most out of your organizations' SaaS apps

  Despite the popularity of SaaS, questions around the technology remain. To get some answers, Modern Infrastructure spoke with Cloud Sherpas' CTO.

• June 29, 2015 29 Jun'15

  Cloud security breaches still the stuff of IT nightmares

  Following major breaches at retail giants, government agencies and others, cloud's reputation has taken a hit. But cloud may not be entirely to blame.

• June 22, 2015 22 Jun'15

  HP keeps the tools coming; this time for continuous testing

  It's becoming apparent that 2015 is a year in which we're being showered with cloud and mobile development tools from all sides. It seems new tools are being announced weekly. One of the companies ...

• June 04, 2015 04 Jun'15

  Cloud data residency an issue of global proportions

  While a cloud provider's vast network of data centers helps maintain uptime and availability, it can be a compliance nightmare for some IT pros.