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When it comes to the cloud capabilities that your business depends on, aligning team skills to your vision can’t be left to chance. Rather than simply making cloud training available, organizations need more control over the training process and the confidence that teams are on track. Cloud Academy is the leading enterprise technology training platform and delivers bespoke training based on your tech stack, configurations, policies, and procedures.

Join experts from CloudCheckr and N2WS/Veeam for our latest webinar on “Cloud Pricing and Cost Optimization: How to Avoid Unexpected AWS Fees.” Since the adoption of public cloud services, IT infrastructures have become dynamic and complex environments. Now, users can spin up new cloud resources in seconds, and make snap decisions on instance types, storage types, and payment mechanisms. And while scalable and reliable, these new processes present a challenge. Individuals can mistakenly enable services that result in huge surprise Amazon Web Services (AWS) bills, or forget about an oversized Microsoft Azure or AWS instance and end up paying for it month after month.

Containers offer speed and efficiency for stateful applications once storage management problems are addressed. Databases maintain large data sets, and clear patterns are emerging to successfully and reliably operate these stateful applications. Kubernetes’ Flex Volume pluggable storage API enables easy integration and delivery of persistent storage for containers.

As more companies jump on the cloud bandwagon and migrate core services to cloud apps like Office 365, native app security has proved lacking. Enter Cloud Access Security Brokers. CASBs augment corporate identity and access controls to Cloud services, enabling better visibility, more granular data security, threat protection and compliance. What are the best strategies when making the move to public cloud applications? Join Bitglass and (ISC)2 on December 3, 2015 at 1:PM where we will discuss CASBs and how they can help secure cloud apps like Office 365.