Examining the Value and Opportunity in Alternative Clouds

With their growing complexity, the hyperscale platforms are not necessarily fit for the entirety of cloud use cases. A group of alternative cloud infrastructure providers is addressing these other requirements with a set of services that emphasizes simplicity, cost-effectiveness and ease of use. Read more to learn: Public Cloud Market Conditions, Leaders and Alternatives Characteristics …

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Multicloud Application Security: Trends, Considerations and Best Practices

The suitability of the cloud for most workloads is no longer in question. On the contrary, most organizations use multiple cloud providers to reduce risk, maximize agility, and control costs. Realizing the full benefit of a multicloud approach takes planning, however. Join Pavel Despot, Senior Product Marketing Manager, at Akamai and Mike Maney, Corporate Communications …

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DevOps and the Alternative Cloud

Cloud Technologies have moved from single workload projects to the mainstream. Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is popular. The market for these services grew by nearly 40% in 2019. With IaaS, the cloud provider operates the underlying IT infrastructure — servers and virtual machines, storage, networking, and operating systems — using an ondemand and a pay-as-you-go model. …

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Migrating Workloads to the Alternative Cloud

Alternative cloud providers offer enterprises a legitimate alternative to AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), with comparable, and often better, performance at a more attractive price. But there’s a potential challenge that cannot go unmentioned: Once you decide that an alternative cloud provider is the right choice, how do you approach migration? As a …

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