Cloud expenses can spiral fast but with smart strategies, you can rein them in. This article breaks down nine simple yet clever ways to slash your cloud costs, from setting budgets with built-in consoles to using spot instances and offloading cold data. Whether you’re running a startup or an enterprise, these tips will help you […]
8 Smart ways to slash your cloud costs
Azure virtual machines get a free upgrade
Virtualization is difficult to understand. The technology itself is complex, and the industry is dominated by vendors that the average business owner has never heard of. Almost everyone knows Microsoft though, and its virtualization platform just got a big speed boost that won’t cost users a thing — if they know how to take advantage […]
Microsoft’s newest virtualization service
Azure is a cloud platform for creating, deploying and managing virtualized solutions that are hosted by Microsoft servers. Included in Azure’s list of services is a technology that is quickly gaining popularity: containers. They’re a great way to get more out of your servers, but until recently they were also incredibly hard to manage. What […]
Microsoft and Citrix: a match made in heaven
Azure and XenDesktop may not be household names, but the newest partnership between Microsoft’s cloud platform and Citrix’s virtualization client are making big waves in the industry. Announced at Citrix’s annual partner Summit, the newest thing in virtualization is a win for everyone. For those who don’t know, Azure is Microsoft’s build-it-yourself cloud platform. With […]
Cloud-based application virtualization
Citrix is one of the biggest names in the virtualization sector. It currently services over 330,000 organizations, and by teaming up with Microsoft to expand its cloud-based software delivery, the company hopes to give that number a boost. While the news of this partnership does mean winding down one popular software as a service, a […]