Cloud data workloads are like coffee: They come in many forms and flavors, each with different price points. Just as your daily cappuccino habit will end up costing you dozens of times per month what you’d spend to brew Folgers every morning at home, the way you configure cloud-based data resources and run queries against […]
Cloud Architecture Mistakes: Organizations Need Shorter Mean Time to Recovery
A common complaint about cloud computing is that the costs of operating in the cloud can get very expensive. In this five-part series, I’ve examined the costly cloud architecture mistakes organizations often make that contribute to those costs, and how an independent cloud platform can solve those problems. Part one explained how organizations can quickly […]
Cloud Architecture Mistakes: Inadequate Showback and Chargeback Options Escalate Costs
In this five-part series, I’m taking a hard look at the common – and costly – mistakes organizations typically make while building a cloud architecture. Part one explained how organizations can quickly lose visibility and control over their data processing,and detailed how to avoid that mistake. Part two looked at why a DIY approach often […]
Cloud Architecture Mistakes: The High Costs of a DIY Mindset
This is a five-part series about the costly mistakes organizations commonly make while building a cloud architecture. Part one explained how organizations moving to the cloud can quickly lose visibility and control over their data processing and detailed how to avoid that mistake. Part two looks at the ways doing it yourself can go wrong. What would […]
Cloud Architecture Mistakes: Losing Visibility and Control Over Data Processing
This is a five-part series of articles examining five critical mistakes organizations face when building a cloud architecture, and how those mistakes can lead to soaring costs and inefficient – even risky – data management. In making their digital transformations, organizations too often lose visibility and control of their data right from the beginning. They can […]
Guide to Digital Transformation: Data-first Architecture
Click to learn more about author John Ottman. The goal of digital transformation remains the same as ever – to become more data-driven. We have learned how to gain a competitive advantage by capturing business events in data. Events are data snap-shots of complex activity sourced from the web, customer systems, ERP transactions, social media, […]
Emerging Cloud Computing Technologies
It has taken many years for cloud computing technologies to mature and become mainstream in global businesses. Now the skeptics have stopped questioning the long-range sustainability of the cloud ecosystem, but it remains to be seen how allied technologies like edge, serverless, IoT, AI, and big data can together fulfill enterprise business needs. Many cloud […]
Six Things You Need for Hybrid Cloud Architecture
Click to learn more about author Andrew C. Oliver. Companies are pursuing a hybrid cloud architecture in order to facilitate their move to the public cloud, upscale existing applications, and secure private data. The term “hybrid cloud” is used loosely, sometimes just referring to having some applications in the cloud. A truly hybrid cloud architecture […]
Cloud Computing and Cloud Architecture Trends in 2020
Use of the cloud has grown significantly. Cloud computing has become so popular, many startups are taking a “cloud-first” approach (the deliberate practice of considering use of the cloud first). The cloud offers tools, data, and scalable computing power that would be difficult to access in other ways. Cloud architecture, whether it be public, private, […]
Rearchitecting Legacy Systems for a Cloudy World
Click to learn more about author Melanie Achard. As organizations become increasingly comfortable with cloud native and DevOps technologies, they have begun using the cloud for newer systems—but moving legacy systems currently on-premises to the cloud still makes them uneasy. Over the last two years, the “lift and shift” approach—the idea of taking legacy systems […]