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…
What Does it Mean to Be a “Cloud Computing Company” in 2019?
If you were to do an internet search for “cloud computing company,” there would be hundreds of companies that would appear—and their offerings would cover…
The State of Cloud Computing in the Enterprise: By the Numbers
Approximately 96 percent of enterprise-sized organizations use the cloud in one way or another. Perhaps they want to leave the hassles of IT and maintenance…
How to Monitor Your Applications and Infrastructure in the Cloud
You’ve done it: You’ve managed to migrate your apps to the cloud. Or maybe you finally set up your DevOps team on their own cloud…
The High Cost of Poor Cloud Management
Most enterprises these days have complex and diverse needs when it comes to infrastructure and applications. IT departments need to juggle legacy applications and cloud-native…
The Biggest Challenge for Your Cloud Strategy: Managing Costs
The rapid growth and adoption of public cloud use, including enterprise adoption of multi-cloud environments, is creating new visibility challenges. That’s the conclusion of a…
The Benefits of a Hardware Platform
With all our talk of cloud-based computing resources, it’s easy to forget that behind those clouds is actual hardware. There are a couple of solid…
How Are Cloud Computing and Data Centers Related?
While the buzz about the cloud is certainly nothing new here in 2019, it’s amazing how quickly the industry has multiplied the solution space. And,…
What Are the Benefits of Multi-Cloud?
Multi-cloud IT strategies have hit, big time. Research done by Forrester last year found that, of public cloud adopters, about 62% were using two or…
5 Cloud Technology Trends to Watch For
Cloud technology trends and the industry surrounding it changes at lightning speed these days. And so, while other blogs might do an annual “looking forward”…
Your Multi-Cloud Journey
Your Cloud Journey: Are We There Yet? If you’ve ever taken a long trip in a car with little kids, chances are you’ve heard “Are…
Is the Public Cloud Really Public Anymore?
When Amazon and Microsoft first started getting into the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) business with their public cloud offerings, many were skeptical. Performance was…
How Would You Migrate a Data Center to Cloud?
Most people nowadays have had some exposure to the cloud: They’ve used a cloud storage site like Dropbox or OneDrive, or a cloud app like…