If your company's public cloud computing bills are out of control, it's time to establish some controls.
New cloud gigs mean more money and even more fun. Be savvy about how you acquire the right skills.
The growing number of attacks could threaten your cloud deployments. An approach of 'find, respond, and recover' can better protect your systems.
Many expect the cloud boom to level out after the masks go away. However, the pandemic may have caused a permanent shift in thinking, and for new reasons.
Lock-in is the dirty little secret of public cloud computing. Cloud engineers have whispered it for years, but more and more people are speaking up now.
A cloudops technology stack is easier to define than to design. Here are 6 capabilities to look for.
Everyone believes they have the magic cloud security solution, but many problems require bigger thinking.
The hyperscalers now offer multicloud ops tools. Cloud-native tools sound good in theory, but here are a few other things to keep in mind.
Overloaded and overcomplicated cloud solutions are 2021’s silent epidemic.
As the pandemic winds down, we learn what we did right and wrong with supply chain management. Many are now bolstering their supply chains with cloud computing.
Just when we thought cloud computing could take a post-pandemic victory lap, we now face the largest challenge to date.
More competition and commoditization in the public cloud’s marketplace may create a model more like Netflix and Apple TV.
As automation gets better and humans withdraw from the process, we could achieve almost 100% automation of cloudops and secops in just a few short years.
Want to stop reinventing the wheel? Find patterns of solutions that can be repeated in multiple projects.
Humans are more of a problem for cloud security than we think. Here’s how to deal with the walking, talking risks to cloud data theft.
As the cloud computing space evolves, the necessary skills do, too. Understanding multiple clouds, security, and governance are the tip of the iceberg.
With the rise of international threats, enterprises and governments are finally understanding that the most effective information security is in the public cloud.
How bicycle repair illustrates the concept of value. Understanding value in cloud architecture could mean the difference between success and failure.
Many look to cloud computing as the way to fix issues with data and systems, but migrating an existing problem may not be in your best interest.
By now, Kubernetes is pretty mature. It's time to take some risks and develop the next generation of applications. Perhaps we can weaponize it to build a better business.
Enterprises are pushing the edge—edge devices, edge clouds, local systems on the edge. Proceed with your eyes wide open.
We are getting better at cloud architecture, and some hope it can be boiled down to a set of preprogrammed processes. But designing an optimized system is still mostly an art.
Some pragmatic advice on earning the most money and finding the best cloud computing career path.
Better performance and reliability plus lower costs and greater security make this architecture worth keeping in the toolbox.
Are we getting good at cloud architecture, or do we still have a lot to learn?
As edge computing explodes, we’re faced with complexity, security, and management challenges that don’t have easy answers.
Multicloud is more than just additional deployment platforms. Making devops work effectively with multicloud is trickier than many people think.
Most points of presence are in urban areas, but a more distributed workforce relocating into rural regions has sparked the rise of smaller cloud centers that provide local processing.
Lots of enterprises think their cloud architecture is optimized, but most are way off their objective. Here are three ways it may be falling short.
Most cloud architects favor the more complex solution over the simpler one. Let’s consider why and look for a better way.
The notion of industry-specific clouds continues to evolve. Enterprises must decide if their specific benefits are worth the wait.
If stealth hacking hasn’t already come to cloud computing, it will shortly. Protect yourself by knowing your responsibilities and using effective tools.
You can do a lot more things wrong than right when it comes to multicloud. These three tips will keep your deployment in good health.
COVID-19 has been a boon for cloud computing. However, the haste to move to cloud is causing some enterprises to neglect security. Here’s what you need to look out for.
We’re becoming dependent on more dev tools and technology to complete cloud migration or development projects. Let’s reduce the risk of choosing the wrong ones and avoid failure.
We’ve been keeping track of state from within applications for years, but new options in the public cloud can save money and time.
A new study proves what I’ve been saying for years: The use of cloud computing does more for the planet than every enterprise having its own data center.
We're 10 years into the cloud movement, so it's a good time to consider what the cloud has done for—or to—the open source movement.
Underoptimized architecture is costly and inefficient. It's worth taking some extra time to decompose your proposed solution to avoid trouble down the road.
Before you run a distributed application across multiple public cloud providers, you need to understand the trade-offs (many) and the opportunities (few).
It’s clear that artificial intelligence is powerful and cost-effective in the public cloud. However, it can be weaponized for unethical tasks.
Rising demand for remote learning plus growing student dissatisfaction equals colleges and universities rushing to cloud-based platforms.
The pandemic has spiked cloud spending, and enterprises are unhappy with their bills. Best practices are emerging to get costs under control.
It’s tempting just to replicate all databases in the cloud, but it’s a much better approach to get your data house in order as part of the move.
Your preflight checklist should have centralized account management, resource management, and asset normalization.
The answer is often not what people want to hear. Here’s where quantum computing fits in the world of cloud computing, and perhaps in your business.
Artificial intelligence and machine learning are hard, and most building these systems don’t know what they are doing. Here’s how to avoid AI/ML failures.
We’ve proactively enabled a new remote workforce this past year, but some may return to the office soon. Better start planning.
IT leaders now question the effectiveness of security that was built before remote work spiked the use of cloud computing. Do their defenses hold up under widely distributed use?
This powerful tool is right for many applications and wrong for others. Here’s how to tell when a square Kubernetes peg won’t fit into a round application hole.