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…
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,…