New digital technologies are designed for mobile devices, the cloud, and in-house databases. They offer a wide variety of opportunities for business today. Unfortunately, they are often completely incompatible with older, legacy database systems, and this incompatibility can make an organization slow and plodding, comparatively speaking, rather than efficient and useful. While new technologies can […]
The Software-Defined Storage Approach to Hyperconvergence
Click to learn more about author George Williams. Both Software Defined Storage (SDS) and hyperconvergence are storage technologies meant to add flexibility, agility, and ease of use for applications and end users. While the technologies are the same, in this article we look at how useful they are for enterprises when they cross paths. Before […]
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 […]
Why the Cloud is Perfect for Disaster Recovery
Click to learn more about author W. Curtis Preston. Disaster recovery (DR) is the perfect workload for the cloud. The main reason this is true is that disasters happen suddenly and without warning, which requires you to declare them in the same way. The cloud is ready to go at a moment’s notice, making it […]
Wasted Cloud: Are You Utilizing the Cloud to Its Full Potential?
Click to learn more about author Pete Johnson. I recently overheard someone say, “The public Cloud was supposed to be simple and cheap, but it’s neither.” The problem with this statement is the premise. Nobody ever promised that the public Cloud was either simple or cheap, let alone both at the same time. The promise […]
Kubernetes 101: What Is It and What Value Does It Offer Me?
Click to learn more about author Pete Johnson. If you remember a time when the de facto target for application deployments transitioned from bare metal to virtual machines (VMs), this story is going to sound familiar to you. That’s not to say that you should think of containers as VMs, only smaller, but that’s a […]