Tag: IaaS
Dead Downtown: It’s YOUR Fault | Pentagon’s FOUR Cloud Vendors | Apple Adds MORE Price Flexibility
Richi Jennings | | Amazon, Apple, AWS, azure, Department of Defense, DoD, google, Google Cloud Platform, Hybrid Work environment, IaaS, JEDI, JWCC, microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Oracle, Oracle Cloud Platform, Remote work, Remote Worker, remote workers, remote workforce, remote working, The Long View, WFH, work from home, working at home, working from homeIn this week’s The Long View: Home working is ripping the heart out of cities, the DoD’s bizarre cloud strategy, and Apple adds a $10,000 app price option ...
Know What You Want and Need
Over the years, what we purchase from vendors has changed significantly. It used to be that IT would define a need, go out and find a bit of software to solve it, ...
Fire at Data Center Causes Chaos | 20% Costlier Cloud
Richi Jennings | | disaster recovery, downtime, IaaS, Kakao, Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans, on-premises, PaaS, Pangyo, SaaS, SK C&C, South Korea, The Long View, uptimeIn this week’s The Long View: A S. Korean conflagration leads to a ridiculously long outage, and the price of public cloud is skyrocketing ...
Cloud: Why Must We Be Confusing?
When I was a kid learning to play Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), the concept of level was never confusing—though the authors should have seen that it very well could be. For those ...
AWS Outage and App Resiliency: Did a Roomba Replace the Canary?
Canaries were once sent into coal mines as an early warning sign against danger—for me, it was my Roomba failing to automatically search out dog hair and clean the floor under my ...
AWS Outage Exposes Weaknesses of DevOps Resilience
The December 7, 2021 Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage severely disrupted services from a wide range of businesses for more than five hours and highlighted just how reliant businesses have become on ...
How to Respond to Rising Cloud Costs
As organizations ascend to the cloud, their cloud expenses are floating to the same lofty heights. But are all cloud costs necessary? The answer is a resounding no — there’s a lot ...
Should I Stay or Should I Go? A Cloudy Decision
Scott Leatherman | | AIOps, app monitoring, cloud management, cloud migration, cloud service provider, cloud-native, colocation, IaaS, OpEx, public cloudIf you’ve been operating in the cloud for some time now, chances are your business has changed since you first made that move and particularly during the current climate. Has your cloud ...
How to Implement a Data Self-Service Program
Data self-service is a hot topic these days. By giving different people across an organization–marketers, technologists, business leaders, etc.–access to available data and analytics tools, you empower business users and decision makers ...
Castles in the Cloud: How to Take Your Business Kingdom Off-Prem with Confidence
Sean Blenkhorn | | cloud, cloud adoption, cloud infrastructure, IaaS, Infrastructure-as-a-Service, PaaS, platform-as-a-service, SaaS, software as a serviceCloud transformation requires migrating all or part of an organization’s virtual assets off-premises, typically to a public cloud. This enables greater efficiency and cost savings, among other benefits, but it brings heightened ...
Infrastructure as Code and Six Key Automation Concepts
Rob Hirschfeld | | CI/CD pipelines, Composable automation, Dynamic Infrastructure, IaaS, IaC, infrastructure as code, Programmatic ConfigurationThis summer, I walked into an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) flame war because I was blissfully unaware of just how broadly IaC had been reinterpreted. Reviewing the comments, it’s clear that thinking ...
Why Salesforce?
Over the past 20 years, Salesforce has become the fastest growing enterprise software platform, and a market leader in sales, service, marketing, integration and custom application development among other areas. Although there ...
