Having poor talent is worse than not having the talent at all, and too many enterprises lack both the skills and the talent for cloud security
Because of gaps across cloud systems, too often user data is stored in unencrypted stores, including caches on internal networks, that can be easily viewed
A year after planning a big private cloud, the former Yahoo reversed course and is moving to the public cloud. Here’s how you too can chart your path away from the private cloud
To keep moving smoothly, Keep your devops configurations coupled with your cloud-based applications
Although many developers believe that APIs are optional, the more you understand their value, the more successful your cloud app will be
For enterprises and users alike, cherry-picking data-privacy laws is yet another new wrinkle to understand and pay attention to
Beware the database fan boys, who never want to move to a different database than what they have in the datacenter
If you dream of modernizing data warehouses—and data marts—in the new platform of the cloud, watch out: It’s not as easy as you might think
The CLOUD Act is a bit disturbing, but I still trust data in public clouds more than I do data in private datacenters
The transformative nature of cloud computing makes it an effective weapon for owning your market
Cloud migration gets harder the farther down you go on the list of applications to migrate, and two issues occur frequently that can lead to failure
New data from IDC shows that smart cities are exploding, and the cloud is driving most of that growth
Moving your data out of a public cloud, even for normal transactions, costs you real money for every gigabyte. Here’s how to minimize the price
Recent data shows that although cloud computing security is still a priority, IoT security is not
Large companies and government agencies do better with short tactical cloud computing projects, versus the larger, more strategic projects
A recent study shows that most companies are ill-prepared for cyber attacks on their cloud and on-premises systems
Some enterprises focus on aggressive use of cloud, while others are passive. Are you channeling the right “cloud spirit animal” for your business?
There’s a sunk cost to being in the cloud, and you need a certain percentage of workloads migrated to get the value you actually seek
Cloud bursting was all the rage when talking about the hybrid cloud years ago. Today, almost nobody is talking about it
Multicloud is great, so here is how to ensure ensuring that you're not giving up security for its increased flexibility
The new data regulations from Europe will cause issues for enterprises that use cloud computing. Here is what you need to know to stay out of trouble
It used to be that enterprises saw devops as an optional component of their cloud approach. But smart ones now know it is essential
Gartner predicts that IT staff will have fewer technical roles available to them as the cloud gains traction. That’s just not true
An agility-based ROI approach is a much more effective way to look at the value of cloud computing, and thus to gain that value
The business community is now seeing directly how the cloud is transformative for business, not something simply for technologists to use
Many enterprises see a need to SaaS-enable applications, making them into a product for customers and partners. But most have no clue about what to do
Will your cloud-based workload support 100,000 concurrent users? The only way to find out is through performance testing
The reality is that it matters much more about what you do after you pick the provider than which one you pick.
New processes from the Financial Accounting Standards Board propose a reasonable way to deal with cloud computing costs
A recent report estimates a huge financial cost to cloud users, which business insurance won’t cover. But is this something you really need to worry about?
Edge computing is simply about pushing some of the cloud’s processing and storage out near to the devices that produce and consume the data
Many cloud technology providers will talk about portability as if it’s a given, suggesting the use of technology such as containers. If only it were that simple
The truth is that the defenses against attacks by other cloud users are strong, and there are much likelier risks you should be focused on instead
As enterprises build more and more multicloud environments, they want the ability to plug and unplug clouds as needed. But it doesn’t work that way
Companies have lost real revenue due to a lack of cloud expertise: on average, about 5 percent of total global revenue
We finally just got cloud security right, and now we're screwing it up with new thermostats and copiers that make all that good security worthless
2018 will be the year of more rapid growth, more data breaches caused by dummies, mega mergers in the cloud computing market, and the rise of “dark horse” cloud providers
If you follow up on these three cloud areas, you'll have a better result from your cloud efforts
Now that most enterprises have clouds in place, it’s time to think about how to remove people from the cloud operations equation
Although the default settings keep S3 data private, configuration errors have exposed data to the world. Even the NSA has screwed up
Small companies should check to see if their bandwidth gets throttled under the new FCC rules, but enterprises as a whole are unlikely to be hurt
New data shows that fat cloud-focused IT budgets are becoming the norm. Are you moving too fast, too slow, or about right?
Enterprises don’t seem to be paying attention to data integration as they move to the cloud, and so won’t find the business value they’re seeking
Amazon is expanding AWS Educate to high school students. Will enterprises benefit from this “get them while they are young” approach?
Most cloud providers try to differentiate themselves through proprietary features—the opposite of what enterprises want them to do
Enterprises must ensure they don’t end up subservient to just one cloud provider by focusing on needs before ecosystem
Too many companies pick the technology first, and then get stuck in the weeds trying to figure out what the business actually needs
Follow these five steps to detect root causes of poor cloud performance
Enterprises can’t yet give up the corporate datacenter, and the cloud providers are using all they can get
For years, enterprises looked at cloud providers to duplicate what existed on-premises. Now, the public cloud is the default platform for innovation
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