NetApp Survey Shows Hybrid Cloud is Maturing
A small survey of 79 midsized to large enterprises conducted by NetApp suggests enterprise IT organizations might finally be embracing hybrid cloud computing beyond use cases involving backup and recovery. The survey finds 20% of respondents are currently employing both on-premises and cloud resources to support the same workload in a production environment, with another […]
Multi-Cloud Is Not About Lift and Shift
Multi-cloud is often framed from the perspective of “lift and shift.” In other words, an organization takes a computing environment previously running on one cloud and transfers it over to a different service provider. Cloud migration may make sense for cost savings or performance benefits and such a shift may be necessary when migrating on-premises […]
Survey Illuminates Long Dark Road to Hybrid Cloud
While hybrid cloud computing will play a critical role in enabling digital business transformation it turns out most IT organizations lack the skills and technologies required to achieve it. A survey of 108 IT executives conducted by the research firm Pulse on behalf of CloudBolt Software, a provider of a cloud management platform, finds 94% […]
Too Many Organizations Get Public Cloud Wrong
The cloud has been getting a lot of press in the past few years—and with good reason. The elasticity and flexibility of resources are transformational for businesses. However, there are also drawbacks. For most enterprises, it’s a significant undertaking to migrate on-premises applications into a public cloud environment. Modern applications today are rarely self-contained entities. […]
3 Key Issues With Hybrid Cloud Transformation
The cloud has fractured. Nowadays, it is nearly impossible to scale a cloud-agnostic digital transformation initiative. The reality is that most enterprises adopt a hybrid cloud arrangement. Whether designed strategically or throughout years of competing vendors and technology influences, hybrid cloud environments, and the problems therein, seem a mainstay for modern IT. Many digital transformation […]
How to Manage Data in Hybrid Cloud Environments
We’ve long-since established that multi-generational, multi-cloud environments are the new norm. But, how does one go about managing data in those environments? In this post, we’ll take a look at the ramifications of this hybrid cloud reality and best practices for managing your data for increased scalability and heightened availability. It’s All Cloud Whether it’s […]
HashiCorp Updates Terraform Tool for Azure Cloud
HashiCorp today announced it has updated the instance of Terraform it created to automate the configuration of virtual machines on the Microsoft Azure cloud to give IT teams more granular control. Version 2.0. of Terraform (TF) AzureRM Provider will allow IT teams to separately configure virtual machines by type for instance of both Windows and […]
HPE Extends Hybrid Cloud Computing Strategy
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) today advanced its hybrid cloud computing strategy by announcing at its HPE Discover 2019 conference an alliance with Google to embrace Kubernetes in hybrid cloud computing environments and then extending the reach of its software-defined infrastructure for building private clouds to legacy ProLiant servers. Lauren Whitehouse, director of marketing for the software-defined […]
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 […]
12 Tips for Managing Your Multi-Cloud Environment
No single cloud vendor has the perfect solution for your unique business situation. The only way to maximize the benefits of cloud services to your business is by dealing with several cloud providers and monitoring all of them simultaneously. That’s the IT equivalent of singing an aria while standing on your head and scrambling eggs. […]