Five Ways to Reduce Your AWS Cloud Spending
In the cloud, as with everywhere else, every dollar counts. And as the cloud continues to grow in popularity, organizations are increasingly looking for ways…
Cloud Computing Improves Your Company’s Green Initiatives and Reduces Your Carbon Footprint
As more and more companies actively seek to reduce their overall environmental impacts, one often overlooked discussion is the positive impact of cloud computing. As…
Get in the Zone! Multi-Account Cloud Set-Ups Made Easier
For organizations looking to quickly establish a secure and scalable multiple-account AWS environment, the task may appear overwhelming – at least at first glance. Creating…
Identifying & Overcoming Security Challenges in the Cloud
Unless your organization has been completely heads-down and not paying attention for the past couple of years or so, you’re probably aware that cloud computing…
Digital Transformation 2020: Preparing for the New Year in Cloud Tech
Every major calendar-year event comes with its own set of concerns for IT. For example, Black Friday and Cyber Monday put stress on eCommerce sites…
Traditional IT vs Cloud Computing
Numerous business owners the world over, across almost the entire spectrum of industries, simply want a reliable, scalable and cost-effective IT solution. Every organization needs…
The Race to the Cloud is On!
By 2021, 94% of workloads are expected to be housed in the cloud. A data point like that might make one think cloud migrations are…
What Black Friday and Cyber Monday Mean for Your Cloud IT Infrastructure
It’s fast becoming a national tradition: Thanksgiving on Thursday, shopping in-store on Black Friday, and then hitting the internet on the following Monday. While the…
Can HIPAA Data Be Stored in the Cloud?
Healthcare organizations are increasingly being tasked with securely handling the vast amount of electronic protected health information (ePHI) they obtain through multiple forms of technology.…
Why You Should Build Automation into Your Cloud Migration Plan
When migrating to the cloud, many organizations focus on which cloud platform suits their workloads best and how they can keep their workloads secure and…
6 Ways to Avoid a Cloud Migration Failure
A recent research study on the success of cloud migrations has some disheartening news for organizations looking to migrate on-premises workloads to the cloud: 62%…
What is a Managed Hybrid Cloud Hosting Provider?
The vast majority of organizations house at least some workloads in the cloud, and many of them in multiple cloud environments. The IBM Institute for…
Burnout in Technology Leadership (and what to do about it)
For all the ways in which technology dominates business news and business blogs, it’s surprising that people are not talking more about a very pervasive…
4 Ways to Vet a Private Cloud Provider
Private Clouds Remain Popular – And for Good Reason! While Azure and AWS are becoming ever-more popular and better suited to more types of workloads,…
What ISVs Need to Know About Hosting SaaS Apps in Healthcare
As reported in the HIPAA Journal, the HHS has issued a clarification statement for when business associates can be fined for non-compliance. If you are…
Your Crash Course on Security in the Cloud (and of the Cloud)
You’ve no doubt realized by now that cybercrime isn’t going away anytime soon. What you might not know is that approximately 43 percent of all…