The IT skills gap is not a passing trend. It’s not something that can be ignored by IT management. And it certainly isn’t going away on its own. These gaps are proving harmful to organizations. They can increase stress on employees, delay deployments, increase operating costs and harm customer satisfaction.
Read morePaaS solutions were some of the first services offered by cloud providers. These solutions came early since they provide a tremendous value of allowing a developer to deploy their code without having to request or provision infrastructure, which may take days or weeks. GCP has a number of such PaaS solutions that allow you to deploy your application without the complexity of provisioning and managing infrastructure. These solutions fall into two families: serverless applications and Linux containers.
Read moreThis is part two of a three-part overview discussing architecting on Google Cloud Platform. In the first part of this series, Understanding GCP Infrastructure Services, we discussed a few of the infrastructure components available in GCP. Now, let’s discuss some of the products that augment this infrastructure. These solutions act as force-multipliers, which allow you …
Read moreThere is a wide-range of services available in GCP ranging from Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) to completely managed Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). In the first part of this series, we will discuss the available infrastructure components and how they provide a powerful and flexible foundation on which to build your applications.
Read morePreparing for ITIL® Foundation certification? Let’s flex those mental muscles with a quick quiz to help you get ready for exam day. What are the three (3) types of Service Level Agreements discussed in Service Design?
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