Last week Wire19.com released its new Cloud Comparison Tool, which evaluates and compares services from Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, IBM Cloud and Microsoft Azure.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    VMware Inc. announced it was launching a new VMware Service-Defined Firewall, a first of its kind in the industry, according to the company.
                    
			            - By Wendy A. Hernandez
 - 03/12/2019
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Perform automated actions against your AWS resources with SSM.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    How to access the Horizon Console and work through some of the workflows.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A high-level overview of the security features on offer in Microsoft 365 -- covering what you can do in the lower-level SKUs, as well as what the higher-level SKUs provide.
                    
			            - By Paul  Schnackenburg
 - 03/05/2019
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    FatPipe Networks announced a new software-defined wide-area network offering for the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, promising better performance for enterprise users of cloud-hosted Office 365 and other applications.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Today, Zadara Storage Inc. announced new upgrades to its Virtual Private Storage Array (VPSA), available in the AWS Marketplace. 
                    
			            - By Wendy A. Hernandez
 - 02/28/2019
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Forgotten resources may continue to incur costs long after they've outlived their usefulness. Here's how to keep that from happening.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    In order for your backup plan to protect your AWS resources, you have to add those resources to the plan.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    DigitalOcean launches Managed Databases service for developers.
                    
			            - By Wendy A. Hernandez
 - 02/14/2019
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Amazon Web Services makes it relatively easy to create a backup plan.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Don't throw away your old printer just because it's no longer supported on Windows 10 -- follow these steps to set up an easy workaround.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Platform9 introduced a new managed Kubernetes service to run on VMware systems in order to reduce the complexity of wedding the hot container orchestration technology with the leading virtualization software. 
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    This week VMware Inc. announced its intent to acquire remote support solution provider AetherPal.
                    
			            - By Wendy A. Hernandez
 - 02/07/2019
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    For a deep-dive experience with application performance monitoring tools, Perform is where you want to be.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    With ACC, Microsoft aims to address security concerns of controlling access to data that's being processed in Azure.
                    
			            - By Paul  Schnackenburg
 - 02/05/2019
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Today OpsRamp Inc. announced the Winter Release of its artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform of the same name.
                    
			            - By Wendy A. Hernandez
 - 01/31/2019
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A new "ACI Anywhere" initiative from Cisco seeks to extend the reach of its ACI solution, born in the early stages of the software-defined networking transformation and subsequently pivoted to provide "intent-based networking." 
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    This week, Microsoft announced that its Azure DevOps Server 2019 entered into the Release  Candidate 2 (RC2) stage.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A free app that should definitely be in your systems administrator toolbox.