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Oracle makes its pitch for the enterprise cloud. Should CIOs listen?

CIO

But with Amazon Web Services (31%), Microsoft Azure (24%), and Google Cloud Platform (11%) accounting for two thirds of the worldwide market, according to Synergy Research Group, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) remains distantly behind the behemoths, leaving many to question whether Oracle’s cloud gains are enough to make it a contender.

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14 in-demand cloud roles companies are hiring for

CIO

Skills: Skills for this role include knowledge of application architecture, automation, ITSM, governance, security, and leadership. With 65% of IT decision-makers choosing cloud-based services by default when upgrading technology, cloud architects will only become more important for enterprise success.

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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

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In addition, he says, “We leverage serverless wherever possible in our public cloud environment, and for the applications that have not been modernized, we can do fine-tuning on virtual machines in our private cloud environment.” It’s just a question of choice.”

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A More Secure Everywhere. From Containers to Serverless and Beyond!

Palo Alto Networks

This is hot off the heels of our acquisition of PureSec , a leader in protecting serverless applications. Most modern applications utilize a mix of platform as a service (PaaS), VMs, serverless and other resources offered by cloud service providers. From Containers to Serverless and Beyond! Read the news release.

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A More Secure Everywhere. From Containers to Serverless and Beyond!

Palo Alto Networks

This is hot off the heels of our acquisition of PureSec , a leader in protecting serverless applications. Most modern applications utilize a mix of platform as a service (PaaS), VMs, serverless and other resources offered by cloud service providers. From Containers to Serverless and Beyond! Read the news release.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO

Refactor your applications to take advantage of web services or serverless capabilities, and re-architect your infrastructure to optimize resource usage,” he says. Those teams should measure the efficiency of cloud spend, optimize costs, analyze spend, and issue reports to leadership, says Vunvulea.

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4 remedies to avoid cloud app migration headaches

CIO

And while Kubernetes is an industry standard, implementations of it, such as Azure Communication Services and Google Kubernetes Engine, don’t work identically. First, what services, such as microservices or serverless, are available from the cloud service providers to facilitate migration?

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