How to Know if You Need Multi-Cloud — and Succeed if You Do
There are many good reasons for running in multiple clouds, as well as times when multi-cloud environments are unavoidable due to organizational history or legal reasons. However, operating in multiple clouds adds complexity, increases operational overhead and can become expensive. Organizations should only pursue it when they have clear business reasons for doing so. In […]
Cloud Migration Monitoring: A Practical Guide
Almost every organization has transitioned some operational systems to the cloud. DevOps professionals are an essential part of migration projects, facilitating the migration itself, and making sure applications work as expected and provide satisfactory performance after the migration. To make your next cloud migration a success, you must get monitoring right. Applications must be monitored […]
Cloud Migrations Demand Risk and Compliance Maturity
The COVID-19 pandemic brought undeniable disruptions for organizations and their employees whether business, personal or otherwise. Across the globe, businesses and governments alike were forced to try and manage these disruptions. For nearly all organizations, digitization initiatives were accelerated in a short period of time, from implementing work-from-home policies and launching new applications to support […]
DevOps as a Service: Migrating Your Entire DevOps Stack to the Cloud
DevOps as a Service (DaaS) enables teams to centralize their tooling and workflow into one unified solution. This solution typically contains all necessary DevOps pipeline features, which replace legacy tooling. This article explains how DaaS works, including pros and cons, and an example showing how to migrate from Azure DevOps Server to Azure DevOps in […]
Embracing the Journey to Public Cloud
One of the fascinating competitions in today’s business world is the one between the digital disruptors—companies whose business vision is rooted in technology and driven by the cloud—and the so-called incumbents. One sector where this competition is particularly intense is financial services. In this sector, the digital-first companies typically don’t compete with banks and other […]
Challenges and Tips for Taking Legacy Systems to the Cloud
Normalization of infrastructure through open source technologies is one way to make the move to the cloud an easier process for organizations. For many modern companies, growth often means growing through acquisition. As organizations become larger, it often makes sense to acquire existing companies who are already creating the solutions they need than try to […]
DevOps Chat: Cloud Migration with nClouds’ JT Giri
Moving to the cloud is becoming a must for many companies if they want to grow beyond their current footprint and be more innovative. But for many companies—especially those in the SMB space—their transition to the cloud is hindered by a lack of knowledge and experience, which often results in difficult migrations that sometimes just […]
Top 3 Challenges of Adopting Microservices as Part of Your Cloud Migration
Many organizations embark on cloud migrations to achieve scalability, cost-efficiency and higher application performance. IDC estimates 60 percent of worldwide enterprises are migrating existing applications to the cloud. With the promise of greater flexibility, a reduction in overhead and the potential for significant cost savings, it’s a logical decision. But instead of performing a “lift […]