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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...

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...

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...

On the face of it, reserving cloud capacity in advance seems like a no-brainer. After all, the promised cost savings can be compelling. Customers purchasing Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances, for example, can save up to 75% of the costs of buying on-demand instances when...

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...

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...

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...

Companies face psychological, institutional, and technical hurdles when it comes to confidently right-sizing app instances In a recent post, we noted that many companies are struggling to control their public cloud costs, even though a key driver for moving to the...