Jason Bloomberg IT Industry Analyst & President, Intellyx Andrew HillierCTO, Densify Densify enlisted the help of Jason Bloomberg, a top industry analyst and a key Forbes contributor, and Andrew Hillier, CTO of Densify and a true veteran in the software industry, to run an informational webinar on the pitfalls of cloud application management and how …

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Cloud computing is the delivery of on-demand computing services—from applications to storage and processing power—typically over the internet and on a pay-as-you-go basis. Rather than owning computing infrastructure or data centers, companies can rent access to anything from applications to storage from a cloud service provider. It’s supposed to help companies to transform their IT …

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Cloud computing has become one of the fastest growing areas of IT and of business—period. Cloud is supposed to help companies transform their IT infrastructure with more flexibility, higher efficiency and less CAPEX/OPEX dollars. But in reality, this is not always the case. With the rapid growth of the industry comes rapid developments from all …

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Of all of the various ways in which companies can leverage cloud computing, establishing a cloud-based relational database would seem to be among the most straightforward. While companies may choose to set up their own database servers in the cloud, they can alternatively just purchase a relational database as a service, such as RDS offered …

Relational Database Services – Not Quite as Simple as They Seem Read More »

Throughout the computing era, we’ve seen the pendulum swing between customized and standard solutions. Custom solutions, tailored to the precise needs of an application or user, can boost efficiency, productivity, and ease-of-use, but come at a premium price. Standard solutions provide economies of scale, greater compatibility, and lower prices, but the “one-size-fits-all” approach doesn’t always …

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Imagine that you receive your monthly cell phone bill, and you are shocked to see how much you’re spending for your family-service plan. A quick check of the bill’s details reveals one especially high-cost element: Your children are streaming a lot of television shows. Realizing this fact, you might decide to set up a new …

Why Saving 30% on Your Cloud Deployments May Be a Bad Deal Read More »

One of the greatest strengths of cloud computing is that many of its benefits are easy to conceptualize and articulate. That’s certainly true for the benefit of cloud elasticity and agility. Your cloud-based application suddenly needs more or less computing power or storage? Simply tap some additional cloud resources – or release unneeded capacity – …

Auto-Scaling Cloud Applications: Practice is Harder Than Theory Read More »

As enterprises push more application workloads into public clouds like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, high cost is emerging as a major pain point. Purchasing separate cloud instances for each workload takes the efficiencies created by workload stacking away from the end customer. Optimizing and right-sizing instances based on workload patterns …

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Being a chief information officer or IT manager can be difficult, but it’s rarely boring. Given the accelerating pace of technological change, as soon as these professionals become comfortable with some cutting-edge technology, another compelling advance demands their attention. For many IT leaders, containers have become one of the top items on their “to-do” lists. …

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Moving some or all of your computing operations to the cloud is seen by many as a good way to reduce many of the management and resource demands associated with IT operations. Still, while public cloud may remove the burden of hosting the infrastructure, the resulting changes required to operations, governance, and management structures can …

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