2 reasons a federated database isn’t such a slam-dunk
It’s often the first problem you solve when moving to the cloud: Your enterprise is using dozens, sometime hundreds, of different heterogenous databases, and now you need to bind them...
The ugly truth about cloud computing in the enterprise
One surprising finding of Flexera’s is that 84 percent of enterprises surveyed have a strategy. No, it’s not surprising that the number is so high. Rather, it’s surprising that...
Review: Google Cloud AutoML is truly automated machine learning
When you’re trying to train the best machine learning model for your data automatically, there’s AutoML, or automated machine learning, and then there’s Google Cloud AutoML. Google Cloud AutoML is...
2 reasons to avoid industry-specific cloud technology
In my years as a cloud computing consultant, I am always taken back by my client’s request to have techs with vertical-specific knowledge help with their cloud projects. Moreover, they...
Why 35 percent of cloud spending is wasted
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AWS vs. Azure vs. Google Cloud: Which free tier is best?
Who doesn’t like free stuff? The public cloud vendors know we all do.The major cloud services offer their wares to everyone from the indie developer with a credit card to...
Rancher K3s shrinks Kubernetes for IoT devices
Rancher Labs, creator of the Rancher Kubernetes management system and the RancherOS container-centric Linux distribution, has announced a new Kubernetes distro built to be slender and simple., as it’s called—a...
The danger of having a cloud-native IT policy
First, it was “cloud-preferred” policies, then “cloud-first” policies, now it’s “cloud-native” policies. They all mean pretty much the same things, just at different degrees of mandatory public cloud usage. is...
Introducing Azure’s augmented reality: spatial anchors
Microsoft is back in the augmented-reality game, with the launch of both its HoloLens 2 headset and its Azure Kinect camera. Lighter and more powerful than its predecessor, HoloLens 2...
Cloud IDE review: AWS Cloud9 vs. Eclipse Che vs. Eclipse Theia
Bringing on a new developer to a programming project with many dependencies can sometimes be a nightmare. I’ve seen an extreme case where the company finally gave up and bought...
