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Cloud management and monitoring

• Building a mobile polling app, developer faces need for scale, speed

  In this feature, Executive Editor Jan Stafford describes a software developer's quest to create a new mobile polling application, Mobile Reactor. Continue Reading

• App performance management through a cloud admin's eyes

  Migrating an app to the cloud means more than just creating a machine image. Its performance is critical to business goals -- and APM can help. Continue Reading

• Enterprise private cloud tune-ups keep systems humming, users content

  To keep their systems humming and maintain user QoE, enterprises must tweak their private cloud configurations periodically. Continue Reading

• To maintain a corporate app store, manage change and seek user input

  This feature, the last in a series on creating a corporate app store, offers advice on maintaining the store and improving it with user feedback. Continue Reading

• Maximizing the potential cloud computing benefits in a migration

  Cloud projects don't always maximize the potential benefits -- even after a launch. These sure-fire ways take advantage of a cloud migration. Continue Reading

• Visual Studio 2013 launch brings free Azure-based VSO preview

  Free Visual Studio Online tools give Azure developers source-code control and application lifecycle management capabilities.Continue Reading

• Backend as a Service streamlines enterprise mobile app development

  In the past, mobile application developers were stuck on an island without tools. No longer, thanks to the effects of Backend as a Service.Continue Reading

• IT professional services can bend the cloud computing learning curve

  Shelling out cash for an outside cloud consultant can save an enterprise time, money and effort -- plus ease the learning curve for IT pros.Continue Reading

• Cloud data security outside the vacuum: Find 'acceptable' levels of risk

  Migrating to the cloud carries a certain fear factor. How do you find an acceptable level of risk and manage to contain it successfully?Continue Reading

• What is object storage and why do cloud providers rely heavily on it?

  Object storage may not look like block and file storage devices often used in enterprises, but one key feature has cloud providers in love.Continue Reading

• Pick the right DRaaS provider to help protect your data from disaster

  Considering investing in Disaster Recovery as a Service? Chris Moyer offers expert advice on choosing the right DRaaS provider.Continue Reading

• Five things every cloud developer needs to know about Windows Azure

  Cloud developers who use Windows Azure must keep in mind these best practices throughout development and deployment, and the entire lifecycle.Continue Reading

• Deploying a corporate app store? These steps can streamline the job

  In this expert tip, contributor Tom Nolle describes steps for planning and launching a corporate app store.Continue Reading

• Addressing compliance, cost when extending software licensing to cloud

  Moving applications to a public IaaS or PaaS can complicate existing software licensing. Is a cloud-specific license with your provider the answer?Continue Reading

• Four keys to implementing a cloud file-sharing policy in the BYOD era

  Cloud admins must balance securing content with on-demand access for users, or users will flout the file-sharing policy.Continue Reading