Nicole Willing
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Nicole Willing, leader of content services provider Intellance, is a technology journalist with focus areas including cloud, AI, semiconductors, fintech and B2B software.
Is Platform Engineering the Missing Layer for Hybrid Enterprise Operations?
September 18, 2026
How platform engineering aims to address hybrid complexity by acting as a control plane above a vast and varied infrastructure
ArticlesWhere Does Amazon Bedrock Fit in the Enterprise AI Stack?
September 9, 2026
AWS is reporting strong demand for Bedrock, but where should enterprises actually place it in the AI stack, particularly those coming from mainframe environments?
ArticlesWhy Cloud-Native Site Reliability Engineering Is Becoming a Mainframe Skill
August 27, 2026
As transaction paths become more complex, Scott Petry of PwC US stresses the increasing importance of automation, observability, incident management and more
ArticlesWhy Cloud-Assisted Recovery Is Becoming More Attractive to Mainframe Shops
August 7, 2026
Cloud infrastructure experts explain how services such as AWS CloudFormation and S3 can help enterprises build scalable resilience layers without moving core IBM Z workloads
ArticlesWhy Observability Is Becoming a Hybrid Cloud Imperative
July 9, 2026
As applications increasingly span mainframes, on-premises systems, containers and AWS services, enterprises need a unified approach to monitoring and logging
ArticlesWhat AWS Availability Zones Really Mean for Resilience
June 16, 2026
Recent outages have highlighted the importance of understanding how AWS Availability Zones, Regions and failover strategies affect cloud costs and business continuity
ArticlesKeeping AWS Cloud Costs Under Control by Preventing Waste
May 28, 2026
Why reducing waste matters more than cutting costs, and how architecture and governance drive long-term efficiency
ArticlesThe Operational Costs Hiding Inside AWS Environments
May 20, 2026
Why organizations often lack visibility into the costs of running workloads on AWS, and why those issues tend to surface over time
ArticlesOvercoming the Semantic Gap in Mainframe-to-AWS Schema Mapping
May 13, 2026
Connecting enterprise data to cloud platforms is the first step—understanding what it means is the next challenge, Tim Bond of Adeptia and Rohan Gupta of R Systems explain
ArticlesTurning Undocumented Systems Into Usable Knowledge With AWS
April 21, 2026
How enterprises can use AI and cloud services to generate usable documentation from legacy systems, supporting onboarding, maintenance and long-term modernization