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How Cloud Migration Helps Improve Employee Experience

The old saying goes, “practice what you preach.” When Ivanti started its "Customer Zero" initiative, Bob Grazioli, Chief Information Officer, saw it as a perfect opportunity to test the products and services consumed by customers. For example, during Ivanti’s move to the cloud, Grazioli and the team experienced the same issues that customers would’ve experienced in their migration process. This first-hand experience allowed them to make improvements along the way.

Guide on migrating VMware VMs to Microsoft Azure

With the surge in digitization, the concept of cloud migration has become a fundamental reality for many organizations. VMware, a widely accepted leader in server virtualization, has enabled many businesses to take advantage of virtual machines’ benefits. However, as businesses evolve, so do their requirements. This often leads to the need for moving these VMware-based virtual machines to more flexible and scalable platforms like Microsoft Azure.

How I Learned to Stop Fearing Blueprints and Love cfy-lint

Writing a blueprint might be one of the hardest tasks for new or experienced users, so why would you punish yourself by writing a blueprint the old way? Cloudify’s cfy-lint tool makes writing new blueprints or improving existing ones easier. In this article, I’ll explain some of the errors cfy-lint can identify and how to fix errors automatically.

6 Security Tips For Companies Using Cloud Technology

As businesses become increasingly reliant upon cloud technology, the need to protect sensitive data is becoming even more crucial. Hackers are constantly finding new vulnerabilities that can be exploited, so having the proper measures in place before any damage is done becomes essential for safeguarding customer information and company assets. Luckily there are a few steps that companies using cloud computing can take right now to make sure their data remains secure.

AWS Instance Types Explained: When To Use Each

You might wonder how companies using Amazon Web Services waste more than $10 billion a year. It’s easy to ask, “why don’t they just reduce their spending?” Well, it’s because there's more to it than that. AWS offers a staggering amount of options — over 200 different services, for example. Among those, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) provides a further 300 AWS instance types spread over five unique instance families.

Deploy AWS spot instances with Elastigroup

AWS spot instances represent AWS’s excess capacity, available for any surge in customer demand. To offset the loss of idle infrastructure, AWS offers this excess capacity at a massive discount to drive usage. With up to 90% in savings when compared to on-demand pricing, spot instance pricing is an affordable option for organizations looking to significantly reduce their cloud bills. One of the challenges with spot instances, however, is that they can disappear at a moment’s notice.

Decoding Logic App Dilemmas: How to Recurrence Trigger a Logic App at different hours and minutes?

Welcome again to another Decoding Logic App Dilemmas: Solutions for Seamless Integration! This time we will address another widespread problem which is to initiate the workflow at a different timeframe during the day or week with the same Azure Logic App Recurrence Trigger.