Depending on who you listen to, cloud computing is either the only way forward for enterprise IT, or it's surrender of control and best avoided. The truth, as always, lies somewhere in between those ...

At first look, the big hyperscale public clouds are much the same; they offer similar services and charge similar prices. But each has its own specialty as a result of its parent company’s history.

With hybrid becoming the norm, cloud expert Paul Schnackenburg looks at the different flavors of hybrid Azure and how they compare, in which scenarios you'd use each one and links to learn more.