Every major cloud provider has a free tier, but some offer more free services than others. Here’s how they compare Who doesn’t like free stuff? The public cloud vendors know we all do. The major cloud services offer their wares to everyone from the indie developer with a credit card to enterprises that cut seven-figure SLAs. The big three—Amazon AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure—also offer free trial versions of various individual services unde their banners. The free offerings are not always enough for full production work, but enough to get a good taste of how the services work without running up a bill.Read More →

Technology is at a inflection point and that the principle discussion in the workplace at the moment is how to manage the convergence of these four trends. 1. Cloud Computing Software is now being offered as a service (i.e., cloud-based, where you are essentially leasing vs. purchasing it) for the past 10 years. 2. IoT The IoT has allowed manufacturers to put sensors at the “edge” of their processes, so that they have much more data from many more areas within their operations to allow them to not only more quickly respond to downtime, but also predict when those events can occur. 3. Big DataRead More →