When implementing your content strategy, you'll need to be intentional about the technology you choose to manage the digital assets you create, share, and store. From creation and storage to accessibility and sharing of your digital assets, using cloud storage for content operations has a few rules you need to follow.

The most important thing with building out any application is to think BIG. Build for ten users now and 10,000 users tomorrow. Having infrastructure that scales as your needs do is critical for user adoption—one of the many reasons we love a serverless approach and particularly AWS Lambda. The other part of any growth journey is managing access to organizational cloud infrastructure, especially with rapidly growing organizational development and DevOps teams.

This blog was originally posted by Microsoft MVP Theresa Miller to her blog, 24×7 IT Connection. Organizations are migrating their desktops to the cloud as a long-term future state and Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) is a common implementation choice. Technology migrations can be complex to plan and execute on. Today let’s look more closely at some common AVD use case scenarios and then dive into the top 4 best practices for a successful migration to AVD.

With the release of Splunk 9.0 came support for SmartStore in Azure. Previously to achieve this, you’d have to use some form of S3-compliant broker API, but now we can use native Azure APIs. The addition of this capability means that Splunk now offers complete SmartStore support for all three of the big public cloud vendors. This blog will describe a little bit about how it works, and help you set it up yourself.

Learn how working with AppDynamics as a customer and design partner is helping the Cisco CX team improve Cisco’s offerings to customers via the CX Cloud platform.

Microsoft has no shortage of online services, computer products, and digital platforms. The sheer amount of different offerings from the tech giant is enough to make anyone's head spin. When it comes to cloud services, the two Microsoft products that immediately come to mind are OneDrive and SharePoint. But what are the differences between SharePoint and OneDrive, and do you need both? Or can you get by with one? What cloud storage service should you invest in?

When you’re already strapped for time and bogged down by cloud bills that seem higher than they should be, you may not be inclined to devote months to researching the best cloud cost tools. And unless you’ve used a cost tool before, you may have no idea where to start. What happens if you use multiple cloud providers? Is one payment scheme better than another? And what do you do if your company hasn’t stayed on top of tagging?

Delight is a free, cross-platform monitoring UI for Apache Spark featuring: You can install it on top of any existing Spark infrastructure – EMR, Databricks, Spark-on-Kubernetes open-source, Cloudera/Hortonworks, … – by attaching an open-source agent to your Spark applications. Delight consists of an open-source agent attached to your Spark job, and a hosted backend accessible at delight.datamechanics.co.