Multicloud Storage: Four Lessons From 2017’s Outages
Multicloud deployments are a major IT focus, with a whopping 85 percent of enterprises reporting that they have a multicloud strategy in 2017. That’s up from 82 percent in 2016 (RightScale 2017 State...
View ArticleActively Planning for the Cloud’s Limitations
Losing internal data is a crippling blow for a business. It can interrupt the normal flow of customer transactions and hamper the ability of marketing or sales to attract new customers. And once data...
View ArticleFour Requirements for Self-Service Portals
Provisioning IT resources was once a manual, time-consuming and tedious process. A developer or business manager requesting resources had to wait days or weeks while the requests were passed around...
View ArticleCloud Forecast: 6 Predictions for 2018
The weeks around New Year’s are in many ways our favorite time of year. There’s the first cold weather and snow, there’s the holidays and time spent with loved ones, and, of course, there’s the raft of...
View ArticleBlurred Lines: Why IT Vendors Make Great Storage Vendors
Not long ago, enterprise IT had a single direct path when considering storage options. It identified the best storage vendor for its needs, rolled in the hardware in a data center and let things run....
View ArticleA CIO’s Guide to Assessing Cloud Feasibility for the Data Center
“Can I completely displace my traditional data center footprint with cloud-based services?” Most CIOs of large enterprises are asking themselves this question (or it’s being asked of them). The cost...
View ArticleWhy Edge Data Centers Are Crucial for SMBs
For years, it seemed like Tier One cities were getting all the attention from data center providers. Colocation providers weren’t rushing to set up shop in Nashville, Detroit, Tampa Bay or another...
View ArticleDigital Transformation? There’s an Algorithm for That.
The discussion about digital transformation envelops the cloud, architecture and delivery models with almost too many choices. Private cloud? Public cloud? Hybrid cloud? Microservices? CI/CD? SaaS? And...
View ArticleCompelling Reasons for Going Hybrid
The word cloud pervades current technology news: businesses are moving to the cloud, everything is stored in the cloud, you need to secure your cloud and so on. Business leaders are at least vaguely...
View ArticleGetting Your Arms Around the Hybrid Environment
If a traditional data center could speak, it might borrow a quote from Mark Twain: “The report of my death was an exaggeration.” With few exceptions, the door is not closing on some type of internal...
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