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• 5 ways to reduce cloud costs

  Organizations need the right strategies in place to avoid cloud cost pitfalls. Stay within your budget with these cost management best practices. Continue Reading

• Confront cloud security challenges with these 5 tips

  Security gets complicated when the cloud overlaps with other technologies, such as AI and serverless. Review these common risks, and learn how to prevent attacks. Continue Reading

• How do I store secrets in AWS so they don't appear in my code?

  To secure a cloud environment, IT teams must keep their application's secrets under wraps. Learn how AWS users can keep sensitive information out of their code with tools like Secrets Manager. Continue Reading

• Watch out for these 5 hybrid cloud security challenges

  Protect your hybrid cloud environment against these five common security vulnerabilities. Avoid the risks with established strategies and public cloud tools. Continue Reading

• How to close the cloud skills gap at your enterprise

  If your business struggles to hire IT pros with cloud experience, consider training your internal staff instead and create a supportive culture to get everyone on the same page. Continue Reading

• Overcome these common cloud bursting challenges

  Cloud bursting might seem like a great way to handle traffic spikes, but it's rife with complications. Still, it's not impossible. Incorporate these strategies in your IT plans to get your hybrid cloud up and running.Continue Reading

• Know your role in the cloud shared responsibility model

  The shared responsibility model of cloud security keeps data safe -- except when it doesn't. Prevent your workloads from being the next target of hackers.Continue Reading

• Is the cloud's shared responsibility model broken?

  An organization that doesn't fully participate -- or even understand -- its role in securing its data in the public cloud takes unnecessary risks. You need to do your part.Continue Reading

• The hybrid cloud challenge CIOs need to address

  Your IT team needs a standardized approach to application development to truly benefit from a hybrid cloud. Containers and Kubernetes may be the key to making that happen.Continue Reading

• 4 common cloud migration challenges and how to avoid them

  Ready to move to the cloud? Review these common mistakes users tend to make when moving data, and avoid them during your cloud migration.Continue Reading

• Reduce cloud latency for remote employees and offices

  Latency remains an issue for cloud users with remote facilities. See how SD-WAN and satellites can improve network performance for enterprises with distributed workers and offices.Continue Reading

• 5 security oversights to avoid with IAM configurations

  IAM provides the granularity organizations need to secure their cloud workloads, but only if it's properly implemented. Refrain from making these common IAM mistakes.Continue Reading

• 7 must-have steps for a cloud migration checklist

  Migrating an enterprise's data and applications to the cloud includes a laundry list of considerations. Review the steps you need to take to complete your migration.Continue Reading

• A comprehensive guide for application migration to the cloud

  Nothing worthwhile is easy -- a mantra you'll want to remember when challenges arise during a move to the cloud. Make it easier and follow this guide to cloud migration success.Continue Reading

• 6 steps to survive a cloud outage

  Providers aren't perfect and outages are inevitable. The key is to have a DR plan in place before a problem occurs. The following slides illustrate the six key steps to get back up and running.Continue Reading

• Do multi-tenant environments still create noisy neighbors?

  A noisy neighbor isn't just a real-world problem. Learn how a noisy neighbor can affect workload performance and how the public cloud has changed to address this issue.Continue Reading

• Integration as a Service (IaaS)

  Integration as a Service (IaaS) is a cloud-based delivery model that strives to connect on-premise data with data located in cloud-based applications.Continue Reading

• Untangle cloud application integration spiderwebs

  A migration is a big feat, but once you are in cloud it's not a 'set it and forget it' situation. Enterprises should take a closer look at integrations and connections.Continue Reading

• AI presents new cloud security challenges when building apps

  AI and machine learning technologies can broaden an application's capabilities, but they can also open an enterprise to new threats.Continue Reading

• Poor hybrid data placement can swell cloud costs

  Enterprises that rely on public clouds are no stranger to egress traffic charges, but those costs can skyrocket when it comes to hybrid cloud data placement and usage.Continue Reading

• cloud integration

  Cloud integration is the act of combining different cloud-based systems into an integral whole. The term may also refer to joining cloud-based systems with on-premises systems.Continue Reading

• Strike a cost-performance balance in microservices deployment

  To successfully deploy microservices in the cloud, IT teams should beware of these four common mistakes around resource locations, service selection and more.Continue Reading

• Explore FAQs on Azure subscription management

  For some IT teams, particularly those new to Microsoft's public cloud, Azure subscriptions spark a number of pressing questions related to billing, resource management and more.Continue Reading

• Avoid these app design mistakes to save a cloud budget

  Certain oversights during app design can increase cloud costs. Dive into the details of four often-overlooked mistakes, and learn how to avoid them to keep your budget in check.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

• Improve hybrid cloud monitoring through automation, alerts

  To effectively monitor hybrid cloud infrastructure -- without being overloaded with data and alerts -- IT teams need to rethink some of their existing processes. Use these five best practices to get started.Continue Reading

• Right-size a cloud VM for better performance, lower costs

  Most companies don't pay enough attention to VM selection during cloud app deployment -- which can drive up costs. Follow these steps to right-size a VM and stay within budget.Continue Reading

• Optimize serverless function performance for faster deployments

  Serverless computing offers numerous benefits, but poor performance can negatively affect deployment time. Follow these strategies to fine-tune and optimize serverless functions.Continue Reading

• Optimize load balancing for a hybrid cloud architecture

  Load balancing plays a critical role in ensuring application availability and high performance in hybrid cloud. Follow these general rules to get it right.Continue Reading

• Factor performance into an application modernization strategy

  Dev teams increasingly use cloud, containers and microservices to modernize apps, but these technologies bring little value unless they boost performance, which is no guarantee.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

• Four options to manage stateful apps in the cloud

  Stateful applications in the cloud pose an ongoing challenge for development and operations teams. Review four ways to address those issues and keep your apps running smoothly.Continue Reading

• Don't overlook these practices in software modernization

  During app modernization projects, teams commonly overlook basic goals, processes and tools, which can sully app launches as a result.Continue Reading

• Manage app dependencies carefully for serverless platforms

  Application dependencies are tough to manage in serverless computing. Developers need to take specific steps, including the establishment of a well-defined CI/CD process, to cope.Continue Reading

• Mitigate low-code/no-code platform security risks

  While you can't entirely avoid the security risks of low-code and no-code platforms, you can mitigate them. Here's a look at the top vulnerabilities and how to combat them.Continue Reading

• Should you build your own tools for diagnostics?

  Learn which makes more sense for your enterprise: building your own cloud-based diagnostic tooling or purchasing an existing product. Expert Ken Milberg explains.Continue Reading

• Finding a digital transformation roadmap with containers

  Containers can help a company trying a digital transformation, but they're not without drawbacks. Expert Christopher Tozzi shares the right questions to ask.Continue Reading

• Curb on-demand self-service risks with cloud inventory management

  Shadow IT can create compliance and security issues, as well as increase cloud costs. Take back control with these best practices for cloud inventory management.Continue Reading

• Sound application development rests with secure APIs in the cloud

  APIs are the secret sauce that simplifies the integration of clouds, data, applications and containers. Learn how to overcome API security risks with this handbook.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

• Using progressive web applications to improve the user experience

  Learn some of the tips that a cutting-edge web app developer learned from building progressive web apps. Expert George Lawton discusses how to implement this new style of app.Continue Reading

• How to reduce technical debt using enterprise architecture

  Find out how to reduce technical debt by mapping business and user requirements in an enterprise architecture. The results will cut the costs of finding and fixing software defects in production software.Continue Reading

• Embrace software security architecture to beat WannaCry-era hackers

  Take a software security architectural approach to overcome WannaCry-era hackers. An IT security pro describes tactics, frameworks and best practices for fighting new software threats.Continue Reading

• Forget the cloud. NASA wants your coding skills for outer space.

  Remember FORTRAN? Well, of course you don't. That's why NASA is holding a contest featuring a prize purse of up to $55,000. It wants to speed up some old FORTRAN software by a factor of 10,000. ...Continue Reading

• Avoid new cloud security threats with continuous monitoring, testing

  These days, hackers hide behind every corner and wait for an open door. Employ continuous security monitoring and testing for all cloud models, including serverless computing.Continue Reading

• Making error fixes after deploying cloud applications

  Cloud app developers, here's advice on for post-deployment error handling and making code error fixes.Continue Reading

• Misconceptions about applying ALM to cloud app development processes

  What's hampering your cloud ALM efforts? Find out how three ALM myths can affect cloud app development and management.Continue Reading

• Techniques for optimizing microservice performance in the cloud

  Learn how to prevent bottlenecks, create efficient deployment and avoid security issues to ensure optimal microservice performance in the cloud.Continue Reading

• Quiz: How do your company's cloud transformation efforts stack up?

  The race to transform legacy IT into a cloud-first operation might be moving slower than you think. Take this quiz and see if your company's progress is ahead of the curve.Continue Reading

• Five tips to overcome OpenStack management challenges

  Enterprises feel a sense of freedom with OpenStack, but management challenges can weigh them down. Use these tips to bolster your management strategy for the open source platform.Continue Reading

• Get creative and use the cloud for faster software development

  From low-code/no-code to containers and microservices, expert Tom Nolle outlines how the cloud can dramatically shorten the software development process.Continue Reading

• .NET programmers, it's time to look to the Azure IoT Hub for help

  Mixing Java and other platforms with .NET can help when building IoT applications. In fact, expert Tom Nolle explains why Azure is a great place to begin.Continue Reading

• How do I synchronize MFA devices for public cloud?

  Multifactor authentication helps organizations verify account and user identities in the public cloud. But what do I do when my MFA devices fall out of sync?Continue Reading

• BizDevOps and digital performance management are the new drivers

  Speeding up a site's slow pages or an app's load times? You need data to know which to fix first based on business impact. Digital performance management is your new best friend.Continue Reading

• Nuvious uses Microsoft Graph API to open up Office 365 to mobile apps

  Getting mobile device apps to work seamlessly with Office 365 content is now easier as Nuvious leverages the Graph API to build conduits with NativeScript and TypeScript.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

• How do I determine which OpenStack version I have?

  Figuring out the OpenStack release or version running in your organization isn't as easy as it sounds. What are some quick tips to find that information?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

• Container security: How to secure enterprise container stacks

  Expert Chris Tozzi identifies effective strategies and tools for securing each layer of the container software stack.Continue Reading

• How can we customize the OpenStack Horizon dashboard?

  Admins can use the OpenStack Horizon dashboard to deploy and manage cloud services. But what are some options for customizing the dashboard's view?Continue Reading

• How to deploy microservices in a hybrid, multicloud environment

  Microservices can bring a number of benefits to a hybrid or multicloud deployment, but they can also introduce new challenges around networking, security and more.Continue Reading

• OpenStack scalability still tests the patience of IT pros

  The constant evolution of OpenStack components hinders the platform's ability to scale. Learn why OpenStack scalability challenges persist, and what you can do to overcome them.Continue Reading

• How do I prevent an I/O bottleneck in hybrid cloud?

  In a hybrid cloud deployment, what are some ways to eliminate I/O bottlenecks that hurt application performance?Continue Reading

• Cloud storage issues are more complicated than you think

  Your app might be happy in the cloud, but it's possible your storage might not be. Find out why 'noisy neighbors' can make cloud storage so tricky and what to do about it.Continue Reading

• Best practices for building apps with cloud computing tools

  To build better apps, developers should understand the nature of different cloud computing tools. It's essential to first evaluate these services. Expert Tom Nolle explains more.Continue Reading

• Achieve better performance with cloud microservices and apps

  Cloud microservices can be powerful tools, but nothing is perfect. Users have reported performance issues, so how do you fix them? Tom Nolle has the answers.Continue Reading

• A custom cloud instance lets admins get choosey

  Not satisfied with the standard instance types from your public cloud provider? Consider customizing your own to cut down on costs and unneeded resources.Continue Reading

• Cloud streaming analytics prescribes big data remedies

  It seems like everything's in motion these days. Streaming data is no exception. With the avenues of information proliferating, it's critical that companies extract value from incoming data in real time, enabling them to devise successful business ...Continue Reading

• Spot cloud security strategy flaws before it's too late

  From compliance to encryption, there are many boxes an organization needs check to ensure its public cloud is secure. Use this flow chart to kick start that critical process.Continue Reading

• When multi-SaaS integration is a repeat offender

  Have you found yourself having to integrate a dozen instances of the very same SaaS product -- none of which IT knew about? You're not alone.Continue Reading

• Are your cloud apps' APIs secure?

  You can never prove that an application is secure; you can prove only that it is not secure. How can that be?Continue Reading

• Parse shutdown: Alternatives are asking for your business

  Rarely have I seen anything touch a nerve to the degree of Facebook's coming shutdown of the Parse mobile back-end as a service. Developers are watching out for each other, offering up ideas for ...Continue Reading

• Cloud-based analytics best practices demand clean data

  A successful cloud-based analytics implementation depends on following best practices to ensure that data from all sources is clean and current. Here are some tips.Continue Reading

• Open source strategies spark security, integration concerns

  While open source technologies can deliver big benefits, they can also stir up concerns for IT pros -- particularly around security and integration.Continue Reading

• Creepy cloud horror stories to keep IT up at night

  With Halloween creeping in, cloud expert David Linthicum shares three cloud computing horror stories -- and advice for not finding yourself in one.Continue Reading

• Lock down your cloud with a penetration testing plan

  Performing an end-to-end penetration test for public cloud is a must to prevent malicious attacks from both internal and external sources.Continue Reading

• DevOps teams offer relief for cloud migration headaches

  Given their knowledge of an organization's new and legacy apps, DevOps teams can streamline an application's move to the cloud.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

• Strategies for adopting continuous software development for cloud

  Management buy-in, along with the right mix of tools and staff, are critical to successfully implement continuous app development for cloud.Continue Reading

• Will a cloud provider's API update disrupt my environment?

  When cloud providers update their APIs, developers have to update and re-test their own software. How can I prepare for that process and minimize disruption?Continue Reading

• Three issues that hinder cloud computing API performance

  APIs can be critical to a cloud application's success. But if poorly designed, they can also be a big headache for cloud providers, developers and users.Continue Reading

• Open source platform as a service doesn't always come easy

  Open source platform as a service can ease cloud app development and deployment. But it also poses these six challenges for developers and the business.Continue Reading

• How to assess the risks of cloud malware

  Hosting apps in the cloud does not necessarily create a cloud malware risk. By focusing on new interfaces a cloud migration creates, you can make the cloud as secure as your data center.Continue Reading

• Experts call for a cloud service-level agreement evolution

  As more and more workloads move to the cloud, cloud provider SLAs should evolve in a number of ways. Here are the changes cloud experts and users would like to see.Continue Reading

• Cut costs with these four cloud optimization tricks

  To save money and boost performance in the cloud, follow these four cloud optimization tricks.Continue Reading

• Fill security gaps with centralized cloud data encryption

  Most cloud providers offer data encryption services, but for some users, those services aren't enough to fully protect enterprise data in the cloud.Continue Reading

• Eight signs your private cloud project is doomed

  Despite their many benefits, private cloud deployments are fraught with potential risks. Here are eight mistakes many enterprises make in their private cloud projects.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

• Top five APM tools for capacity planning

  Learn about five popular APM tools that have added capacity and demand planning to ensure improved user needs.Continue Reading

• Avoid strapped IT budgets with cloud cost optimization

  Many businesses expect cloud to be cheaper, but cost-efficiency is no guarantee. To reap cloud's financial rewards, devise a cost optimization plan.Continue Reading

• Seven cloud security risks that will ruin your day

  Placing data -- and trust -- in public cloud has its risks. While tools and services can boost cloud security, here are seven risks that can ruin a project.Continue Reading

• How to use application performance modeling techniques

  Effective application performance modeling requires understanding the techniques, gathering the right data and benchmarking against reality.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

• Minimize threats through public cloud security testing

  Security concerns deter many IT pros from adopting public cloud. But security testing tools and a sound strategy can help them conquer their fears.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

• Despite benefits, SaaS deployment isn't all smooth sailing

  Deploying SaaS can drive major efficiency gains within an organization. But it also presents its fair share of challenges -- security being one of them.Continue Reading

• Prevent cloud billing shock with cost monitoring tools

  Businesses move to cloud for cost efficiency. However, without proper monitoring tools, their cloud bill might be steeper than expected.Continue Reading

• Which cloud management tools can track my cloud budget?

  Cloud costs can fluctuate as user demands change. Are there cloud management tools that can help me track my cloud budget and spending?Continue Reading