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Addressing cloud waste: 4 steps to cloud computing cost optimization

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By: Scott Sellers , Co-Founder and CEO, Azul From the get-go, the cloud promised to help companies scale up their architectures in seconds, run their applications faster, never turn away a transaction, and save money through economies of scale. Here are four steps to getting the most out of cloud computing resources in an economical manner.

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4 remedies to avoid cloud app migration headaches

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Once enterprises commit to running business-critical applications in the cloud, they rarely move to another provider. The cost of migrating is simply too high, says Sid Nag, VP of cloud services and technology at Gartner. But doing this requires planning ahead early on, before moving an application to the cloud the first time.

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Cloudera’s RHEL-volution: Powering the Cloud with Red Hat

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As enterprise AI technologies rapidly reshape our digital environment, the foundation of your cloud infrastructure is more critical than ever. Previously, Cloudera customers on public cloud were provided with Virtual Machine images built on CentOS Linux. Let’s dive into what this means and why it’s a game-changer for our customers.

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10 essential tips for bolstering cloud security in your business

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The business world is rapidly continuing its digital transformation and relying on cloud-based solutions. However, while cloud computing offers benefits like improved efficiency, scalability, and accessibility, it poses new security challenges.

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Salesforce IT injects generative AI to ease its massive datacenter migration

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When you’re tasked with migrating 200,000 servers to a new operating system, a helping hand is very welcome indeed. But the most compelling aspect of the migration is that the process will be aided by Salesforce’s Data Cloud and its own generative AI platform. There are misconceptions about this,” he adds.

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10 IT skills where expertise pays the most

CIO

This makes it easier to maintain, update, and monitor services without breaking other parts of the system and introducing any unnecessary downtime. Having emerged in the late 1990s, SOA is a precursor to microservices but remains a skill that can help ensure software systems remain flexible, scalable, and reusable across the organization.

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Sharing Responsibility for Data Security in the Cloud

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As organizations shape the contours of a secure edge-to-cloud strategy, it’s important to align with partners that prioritize both cybersecurity and risk management, with clear boundaries of shared responsibility. But outsourcing operational risk is untenable, given the criticality of data-first modernization to overall enterprise success.