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Reliability In Cloud Computing: AWS vs Azure vs GCP Strategy Comparison
July 18, 2025
Kevin Kline

The Big 3 Hyperscalers are Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). As cloud computing has grown in popularity, they have each in turn discovered that the average potential customer really isn’t prepared for the massive mind shift needed to achieve a level of mastery comparable to their self-hosted computing environments.

Failing to Keep Pace with Cloud-Native Transformation?
June 26, 2025
Eoin Keenan

In an era of constant technological flux, many IT teams find themselves running just to stand still. New platforms, services, and deployment models promise agility, but for organizations with deep investments in traditional infrastructure, adapting to this pace of change is anything but simple. The discussion around cloud-native transformation just keeps on growing.

Sustaining Digital Resilience With Secure by Design
August 8, 2024
Krishna Sai
In today’s complex digital landscape, incorporating security from the ground up is not merely a best practice—it is essential. The recent Azure and CrowdStrike outage underscores the importance of integrating…
What to Know About Azure SQL Database Serverless Compute Tier
February 15, 2022
Tim Radney
Over the past several years, I’ve helped numerous customers migrate SQL Server workloads to Azure SQL, including Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and Azure SQL Virtual Machines. In this article, I’ll explain some…
Key Challenges of Database Cloud Migration
March 25, 2021
Kevin Kline
As we shift enterprise computing to the cloud, the need for database migration increases—but with this comes the inherent challenges of migration and the need to plan. Moving to the…
Further Tips on our Database Migration to the Azure Cloud Session at MS Ignite 2021
March 11, 2021
Kevin Kline
I was really stoked to deliver a session at Microsoft Ignite with my long-time friend and fellow Head Geek™, Tom LaRock, on the topic of migrating an on-premises SQL Server…
The Case for Upgrading — SolarWinds TechPod 035
February 4, 2021
SolarWinds
The relationship IT professionals have with upgrades can sometimes only be described as “fraught.” Reasons range from the cost in terms of time and lost opportunity to “nothing in that…
Quicker Azure Monitoring, Linux Change Detection, New API Poller – SolarWinds Lab #82 (Part 2)
December 19, 2019
orangemattersw
The first step in improving system monitoring and visibility is getting data flowing sooner rather than later. For systems engineers managing diverse resources, it can be easier said than done.…
[De]Constructing Cloud With Mike Pfeiffer — SolarWinds TechPod 021
December 17, 2019
SolarWinds

This episode of SolarWinds TechPod is brought to you by the SolarWinds APM suite. Simplify your full-stack monitoring for hybrid, Azure, AWS, and other cloud-native IT environments, and gain valuable performance insights across user experience, applications, services, and infrastructure.

Public Cloud: All Aboard the Hype Train!
November 13, 2019
Paul Woodward Jr.
We’ve all heard it before. “The cloud is the future!” “We need to move to the cloud!” “The on-premises data center is dead.” If you believe the analysts and marketing…
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