Tips and Tricks to Speed AWS Deployment
Like many organizations, yours probably has investigated some of the services offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), and you've probably identified several that you would like to use. Although the bene
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To Cloud or Not to Cloud? Growing a Managed Services Portfolio
In truth, information technology and services have fallen upon interesting times, with the introduction of the cloud and its expanding presence and market share. Where some see the cloud as a wedge th
To Public Cloud or Not to Public Cloud? 5 Questions the C-Suite Wants Answered
Companies that fail to tap the transformative power of the Public Cloud risk having circles run around them by those that do. The decision to extend IT operations to a Public Cloud provider, however,
Top Challenges in Storage Virtualization (and how to overcome them)
One of the biggest challenges in virtualized infrastructure impacting application performance is the ability to manage resource contention in the underlying storage infrastructure. A common approach t
Top Four Considerations When Choosing Your SoftLayer Data Center Location
In teaching SoftLayer classes around the world, one of the questions frequently asked and discussed is how to choose a SoftLayer data center. Several variables go into that decision, which is the topi
Towards Identity as a Service (IDaaS)
As of today, four enormous waves of change are impacting organizations:
Truly consistent hybrid cloud with Microsoft Azure
Cloud computing gets a lot of attention, and for good reason: it's where much of IT is going. But onpremises datacenters also have an important role to play, both today and in the future. For many org
Trusted Cloud: Microsoft Azure Security, Privacy, and Compliance
With the emergence of cloud computing, today's IT organizations are playing an increasingly important role in driving business strategy. While cost reduction is still a top priority, scalability and b
Tuning and Managing Scalability with Cosmos DB
In this chapter, we will analyze many aspects that allow us to design and maintain scalable architectures with Cosmos DB. We will use our sample application to understand how many important things wor
Twelve Steps to Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Success
Whether one calls it Consumerization or the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) era, it has clearly begun in earnest. The availability of 4G (Fourth Generation) phones, tablets, hot spots, and other offering
Types of Cloud Deployments
This white paper will discuss the basics of cloud computing, including a brief discussion on the location of the resources, followed by a review of the characteristics of cloud computing and the types
U-SQL - Performance optimization
This document provides details of some points to consider for performance optimization of U-SQL tables and the queries running against them.