Andy Patrizio

Andy Patrizio is a freelance journalist based in southern California who has covered the computer industry for 20 years and has built every x86 PC he’s ever owned, laptops not included.

What is Cloud Infrastructure? Uses & Benefits

Cloud infrastructure is the layer of software and hardware between your internal systems and the public cloud. Incorporating many different tools and solutions, this infrastructure is the essential system for a successful...

How to Reduce Cloud Costs

One of the primary drivers for migrating to cloud computing is the cost savings of leasing compute time vs. making the capital investment in hardware, which eventually...

Artificial Intelligence Salaries: Paychecks Heading Skyward

Artificial intelligence salaries benefit from the perfect recipe for a sweet paycheck: a hot field and high demand for scarce talent. It’s the ever-reliable law of supply and demand, and right now,...

Top IaaS Providers & Companies

Infrastructure as a service, or IaaS, is the second-most basic cloud computing model available to customers, in that it provides just the virtualization platform and OS, and that’s it. What’s known as bare...

Big Data vs. Artificial Intelligence

Is Big Data vs. artificial intelligence even a fair comparison? To some degree it is, but first let's cut through the confusion. Artificial Intelligence. Big Data. Those are...

AWS CloudFormation: Using Infrastructure as Code

AWS CloudFormation is a leader in Infrastructure as Code (IAC), which greatly eases the process of provisioning IT resources in the cloud.  First, some background:  Cloud Storage and Backup...

Top 14 Hybrid Cloud Providers

There is no question that the hybrid cloud is the cloud of choice for enterprises. Despite talk of shutting down their data centers and going pure public cloud, necessity is forcing companies...

Future of Cloud Computing: All Hybrid Cloud

The future of cloud computing is, to be sure, hotly contested. Indeed, the term “cloud” is an appropriate one because like the clouds in the sky, the...

Top 8 Big Data Best Practices

Also see: Big Data Trends and Best Practices Big Data can easily get out of control and become a monster that consumes you, instead of the other...

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