Click to learn more about author Haoyuan Li. The present global crisis has bolstered cries for cost-cutting across organizations. Data lakes spanning from on-premises environments to a public cloud platform have continued to evolve, frequently striving to keep the infrastructure and operational costs low while providing business agility. At many large organizations, traditional data lakes […]
Weighed Down by On-Premises Disaster Recovery Sites? Move to the Cloud
Click to learn more about author Andy Fernandez. In today’s new remote-heavy world, it’s more important than ever that organizations are available 24/7. From healthcare to online retail, potential downtime, with an average cost of $250,000 per hour, can be catastrophic. This leaves IT organizations with the task of meeting “always-on” expectations with, likely, less […]
DevFinOps: Why Finance Needs to be Integrated with Development and Operations
Click to learn more about author Jay Chapel. The formation of DevOps brought together two distinct worlds, causing a shift in IT culture that can only be made better (and more cost-effective) by the integration of financial strategy. Enter DevFinOps. We say this partially in jest… yeah, we know, you’ve had enough of the Dev-blank-blank […]
Cloud Migration to Hybrid Environments: Ensuring Success
Click here to learn more about Gilad David Maayan. A hybrid environment is an infrastructure design, including some combination of public clouds, private clouds, or on-premise resources. It integrates these resources into a unified system in which you can access data and workloads across environments. A hybrid environment enables you to maintain applications or data […]
Flexential Offers Managed Public Cloud, Managed Container Solutions
According to a recent press release, “Flexential, a leading provider of data center colocation and hybrid IT solutions, today announced it is offering next-generation Managed Public Cloud and Managed Container Orchestration services to automate cloud infrastructure, application deployment and increase speed to market. Flexential’s Managed Public Cloud solution, for AWS and Microsoft’s Azure cloud platforms, […]
Utilizing Business Intelligence with AI
Business intelligence (BI) is, in essence, new information that is not necessarily common knowledge and is sought to gain a competitive advantage over the competition. Business intelligence comes from a variety of sources, ranging from spies working for the competition to data mining. Contrary to the theme of several current articles, business intelligence is not […]
ParkMyCloud Expands Cloud Cost Optimization to Containers
According to a recent press release, “ParkMyCloud, provider of the leading enterprise platform for continuous cost control in public cloud, has expanded its public cloud cost optimization capabilities to container technology, starting with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). Wasted cloud spend is a significant problem, draining IT budgets in companies of all sizes and […]
Infosys and IBM Collaborate to Accelerate Digital Transformation with IBM Public Cloud
A recent press release states, “Infosys, a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting, and IBM today announced a global alliance to help enterprises accelerate their digital transformation journey using the IBM public cloud. The collaboration will help enterprises — including those in highly regulated industries such as financial services, insurance and healthcare — […]
Big Data Trends in 2020
In 2019, automation frameworks designed to process big data made it much easier to go from the start of a new analytics project to the production phase. Additionally, per the requirements of GDPR, many more businesses now have Chief Protection Officers (and likely Chief Data Officers), which has, in turn, resulted in their shifting from […]
Data Virtualization for a Hybrid World
Many organizations see the hybrid cloud and multi-cloud models as critical to their present business requirements, and to their future ones too. Organizations are paying more attention to the use of containers to help with simple and automated portability and scaling that can play an important role in accelerating cloud projects and deliverables; to cloud […]