2 Simple Ways to Stop Blowing Your Cloud BudgetCloud computing has enabled organizations to deliver applications to market in record time. However, this agility can also result in larger than expected cloud bills when applications use more or larg… July 23, 2014 Flexera
Cloud Price Reductions: A Definitive Analysis of 2013 TrendsUpdate: March 27, 2014 Cloud prices are constantly dropping as we noted in this article. This week first Google and then AWS announced significant new price changes that will be very attractive to man… March 21, 2014 Bret Clement
SunGard Uses AWS for a Cost-Effective, Resilient Cloud ApplicationToday’s guest blog post comes from Alex Krikos, director of cloud services product management at SunGard Availability Services. Early this year, a key customer of ours told us it wanted to move … October 24, 2013 Flexera
Six Tips for Choosing a Cloud Proof-of-Concept ApplicationCloud computing gives businesses many options for hosting their applications. Cloud provides instant-on for the immediate launch of tools and applications, allows end users to launch applications them… October 17, 2013 Flexera
How to Model Enterprise Cloud Computing CostsOne of the main benefits of using cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) for your applications is the ability to scale your usage up and down and pay for only what you use. However, predicting pay-a… October 14, 2013 Flexera
Private and Hybrid Clouds: 9 Use Cases and Implementation AdviceThe RightScale 2019 State of the Cloud Report from Flexera reveals that 84 percent of enterprises have a hybrid cloud strategy. Enterprises that want to mix the resources of multiple private and publi… Flexera
Tenthwave Launches a Cloud-Based Facebook App in Two WeeksAt Tenthwave, a full-service digital agency, Hadley Taylor and Jade Wesdorp are among those responsible for supporting the organization’s projects from a technical perspective. Once upon a time … October 4, 2013 Flexera
Does Virtual-to-Cloud Make Sense?One of the first steps that many organizations take when they begin thinking outside the data center is to convert physical servers to virtual machines. An array of Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) tools can help systems administrators inspect a physical server’s filesystems; package up the operating system, the applications, and the data; and create a virtual machine image for a virtualized environment to replace the physical server. Systems administra… May 21, 2013 Flexera
Enabling Cloud-Powered IT Without HeadachesIf you’ve read my previous articles on using RightScale to manage Windows Azure cloud infrastructure, you’ve made sense of your Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and you’ve automated y… May 20, 2013 Flexera
RightScale State of the Cloud 2013: A Look AheadI’ve already introduced our RightScale State of the Cloud 2013 industry survey and talked about how the results show that the greater the level of maturity an organization has with cloud, the mo… May 3, 2013 Kim Weins
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