In the early years of the cloud, the prevailing notion was straightforward: Store everything in the public cloud and stay there indefinitely. This approach made sense as businesses sought to enhance elasticity, developer agility, service availability, and flexibility. However, as these businesses have grown, the landscape has changed. While there are still numerous reasons to […]
Myth-Busting Cloud Repatriation: The Misunderstood Trend in Cloud Computing
The term “cloud repatriation” is appearing more often as organizations redefine their strategic approach to where they locate their apps and workloads. The storage location depends on each organization’s specific cloud goals, needs, and requirements. This “trend,” however, is nothing new, and can have profound business impacts for organizations. Cloud repatriation refers to migrating workloads […]
2022: The Year Automation Comes to the Forefront of Reliability and Experience
It’s no shock to anyone that 2021 was a year of big change, much of it due to the continued effects the global pandemic has on how we do business. As every organization across every industry addresses their new needs for digital transformation and continues to expand distributed working options for their employees, it’s clear the way […]
How Much Should Enterprises Worry About Vendor Lock-In in Public Cloud?
Click to learn more about author Jay Chapel. One of the key drivers to a multi-cloud strategy is the fear of vendor lock-in. “Vendor lock-in” means that a customer is dependent on a particular vendor for products and services, and is unable to use another vendor without substantial switching costs or operational impact. The vendor lock-in problem in cloud computing is the […]
The Ways Hybrid Cloud Can Work for Your Always-On Business
Click to learn more about author Arno Witvliet. As organizations go global and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and cloud-hosted online services grow, companies have adapted to an “always-on” model. Both technical and non-technical organizations are increasingly relying on online software, which only serves to increase the prevalence of always-on platforms in all aspects of our lives. The […]
Blockchain Apps on Bare Metal Servers (Part 2): Stability, Resiliency, and High Availability
Click to learn more about author Andreea Jakab. In part one of this series, we discussed blockchain security. To achieve the full potential of your application and of the blockchain technology, and to benefit from the digital transformation it can bring to enterprises, you should concentrate on and invest in the proper infrastructure to support it. Let’s go into […]
Power Outages at Public Cloud Data Centers: How to Mitigate Risks
Click to learn more about author Ashok Sharma. A public cloud is a computing facility that makes resources accessible by service providers for the community through the internet. Resources include storage capabilities, applications, or virtual machines. Public cloud allows for scalability and sharing of resources that would be impossible for a single organization. Public cloud […]
What Is Colocation and How Does It Compare to the Public Cloud?
Click to learn more about author Ashok Sharma. Most IT companies are under constant pressure to innovate with new data center technologies, which is why many are turning to colocation and the public cloud. Both technologies help to cut costs and improve the efficiency of the system. In addition, they help in delivering on-demand services […]
So You Want to be a Cloud Engineer?
It has been predicted that “cloud engineer” will be among the top ten in-demand IT jobs in 2021. There is currently a great need for cloud engineers, primarily because a significant number of organizations are moving their business processes to the cloud. As more organizations shift to cloud data storage, the demand for cloud engineers […]
The Cloud Managed Services Market is Growing — and That’s Good for MSPs
Click to learn more about author Jay Chapel. Lately, we have been talking to quite a few providers of cloud managed services that play in both the private and public cloud spaces. These conversations have centered around how cloud management needs are evolving as enterprises’ hybrid and multi-cloud needs have accelerated. Most refer to this […]