Click to learn more about author Patrick Hubbard. Many businesses have pushed their cloud migration plans into overdrive in 2020. The emergency transition to work from home, significant changes in customer behavior, supply chain challenges, and existing pent-up digital transformation projects created a rapid-migration Voltron for many teams. There’s been amazing delivery on the part of […]
Here’s How IT Can Prepare for What’s Coming Next
Click to learn more about author Patrick Hubbard. In the sparkly, golden days before the new normal, many office workers probably considered “infrastructure” to be the buildings they worked in and their desks and computers. But in what seemed like the blink of an eye, workers learned infrastructure has become a complex digital amalgam — it’s […]
Blueprint to the Boardroom: How Tech Pros Can Influence Business Strategy
Click to learn more about author Patrick Hubbard. If you feel like you can never find time in your day to move ahead or develop badly-needed skills, you aren’t alone. In fact, according to our recent IT Trends Report 2019, 79% of DevOps teams, developers, and web product managers (WPMs) say their day-to-day IT tasks extend […]
Success at the Edge: Dos and Don’ts
Click to learn more about author Patrick Hubbard. Edge computing is on the rise; new research expects the market to reach US$28.84B by 2025. While data center boundaries, from compute to networks and storage, are being pushed even further to meet the needs of IoT’s demanding applications, we also have billions of devices creating massive amounts […]
Data Managers: Three Tips for Surviving the 5G Hype
Click to learn more about author Patrick Hubbard. 5G is increasingly touted as a panacea to solve all connectivity issues (apparently everywhere) and resolve existing bandwidth and latency issues. It’s being sold as a technology stack protocol—included in multiple hardware solutions—and now that it’s here, the world will shortly reverberate in millimeter-wave harmony. Well, not quite. […]
Doubling Down on Digital Twins: A New Approach to Get Operations Moving
Click to learn more about author Patrick Hubbard. Risk can be a meaningfully paralyzing concern for IT. Sometimes we fear that even looking at a system, much less making configuration changes, however badly needed, might cause it to fail in spectacular and career-limiting ways. But what if we had specimens of our most critical systems to […]
Ring in the New Year with 2019 Data and Tech Predictions
Click to learn more about author Patrick Hubbard. An annual (brief) respite in IT and the dawn of the new year provides an opportunity to reflect on lessons learned and to prognosticate on the year ahead, and certainly 2018 was one for the books. We finally saw progress in the growth of software-actuated infrastructures, suffered new […]
Three Best Practices for Managing Distributed Applications Architecture
Click to learn more about author Patrick Hubbard. Make no mistake, distributed application architectures can bring tremendous benefits for business. For example, actually using Cloud the way it’s designed can achieve the cost savings promised years ago. But for enterprise IT, distributed architectures can create a problem—many of the monitoring tools we’ve relied on for years […]