Cloud technology has revolutionized how businesses operate, offering scalable, flexible, and cost-effective solutions to everyday tasks. And further progress is on the horizon – by 2024, Gartner estimates the cloud computing market will eclipse $724 million, up from $490 million in 2022. Just think about the headway IT leaders can make with this degree of investment […]
The Lifecycle of the Cloud
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 […]
Data Portability May Save Your Cloud Workloads
As businesses try to optimize their costs during economic downturns, ramping up cloud spend can be a pain point. Efforts to alleviate this – from, say, moving workloads to a cost-effective environment/on-prem or re-architecting to save costs – become difficult, as organizations often find themselves strapped for technical agility. With modern businesses carrying so much […]
7 Essential Roles for a Successful AWS Migration
Increasingly more organizations initiate AWS migration due to the advantages provided by the AWS cloud platform. According to The Business Value of Migrating to AWS survey, 43% of AWS adopters report lower time-to-market for new features, 20% report infrastructure cost savings, and 66% note an increase in administrator productivity. However, AWS migration is a challenging task requiring a […]
Four Steps to Ensure a Smooth Cloud Migration
When it comes to cloud migration, there’s a lot to consider – which workloads should be migrated, how much storage space is needed, which cloud provider is best for your workloads, not to mention how much it will cost. But the biggest mistake that organizations can make when migrating to the cloud is not asking these questions […]
Vendor-Agnostic Multi-Cloud Management Is a True Game Changer
Global spending on public cloud in 2023 will grow by an estimated 20.7% to $591.8 billion, according to Gartner. The benefits of cloud migration are well known. Inherent variable cost structures enable businesses to evolve away from the traditional fixed-cost methods of managing IT infrastructure, adopting cloud-first models that are controllable, agile, and secure; enable operations to readily scale as needed; and optimize […]
You Are Overspending on Cloud and SaaS: Here’s Why and What to Do
The shift to public cloud, private cloud, and SaaS is ubiquitous and occurring at an accelerating pace. The benefits of well-known cloud services and infrastructure are easier to deploy and manage and, typically, are cheaper and more efficient than operating a data center. Those same benefits, however, also introduce the potential for overspending, orphaned resources, and duplicate […]
Cloud Architecture Mistakes: Organizations Need Shorter Mean Time to Recovery
A common complaint about cloud computing is that the costs of operating in the cloud can get very expensive. In this five-part series, I’ve examined the costly cloud architecture mistakes organizations often make that contribute to those costs, and how an independent cloud platform can solve those problems. Part one explained how organizations can quickly […]
Adopting an Edge-to-Cloud Approach
Back in 2009, there was an enterprise technology with a lot of promise. But adoption, marred by questions about security and reliability, lagged. That technology – cloud computing – is now a $600 billion market. Edge computing technology has followed a similar trajectory to the cloud. It, too, was met with early cynicism and slow […]
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 […]