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…
3 Reasons Organizations Fail to Optimize Cloud Costs
Optimizing IT budgets is a priority for many IT leaders, and public clouds like AWS and Azure can help the organization slash their cloud computing…
Selecting a Managed Service Provider for Your Cloud Journey
Even organizations that are pro-cloud are sometimes skeptical about the need for a Managed Services Provider (MSP) for their cloud journey. We’ve heard questions like…
Cloud Governance vs. Cloud Management
In a recent survey, cloud governance was ranked as the second most pressing cloud challenge by 84% of enterprises and 73% of small and midsized…