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Global Cloud

Devops is essential to the cloud, and to its payoff

April 4, 2018

Via: InfoWorld Cloud Computing

The notion of devops means that you’re streamlining the movement of applications from the point of need to production. It matters not if you’re changing or improving applications or building new ones. Of course, devops arose around the rise of cloud […]


Service Models

Demystifying the cloud for CFOs

March 29, 2018

Via: CompareTheCloud

In the beginning, the IT department was cloud’s natural early adopter. There was initial resistance due to security concerns and the apparent risks to job roles – but the advantages of cost and scalability made the business case for PAYG […]


Deployment Models, Hybrid Cloud

Why hybrid cloud bursting went nowhere

March 28, 2018

Via: InfoWorld Cloud Computing

Years ago, the notion of hybrid cloud bursting was compelling: How cool is it to have workloads on both private and public clouds and be able to run those workloads on the private cloud during normal operations and burst to […]


Deployment Models, Hybrid Cloud

Multicloud mania: what to know

February 2, 2018

Via: Network World Cloud Computing

When enterprises started moving workloads and applications to the public cloud, it made sense to adapt existing networking technologies to the new domain. But while compute and storage have successfully become ‘cloud-like,’ networking hasn’t. Cloud networking solutions being offered by […]


Deployment Models, Public Cloud

Don’t worry about selecting the ‘wrong’ public cloud

February 2, 2018

Via: InfoWorld Cloud Computing

When I speak in public about cloud architecture, I’m often asked a question with no right answer: “Which public cloud should we use?” Not knowing much about what “we” is, there is no right answer. While I can list the […]


Deployment Models, Public Cloud

IT budgets remain tight due to cloud migration

January 31, 2018

Via: Network World Cloud Computing

For the third straight year, IT organizations are keeping tight control over their IT budgets, but not because of economic uncertainty. Instead, the hesitancy to spend is because of the transition to the cloud. That’s the findings from IT market […]


Deployment Models, Others

Don’t fall for the ‘pluggable cloud’ siren call

January 12, 2018

Via: InfoWorld Cloud Computing

People once made requests for hybrid cloud because of the perception of flexibility. Now they make multicloud requests, for the same reasons. Multicloud is just part of a cloud architecture that uses more than two clouds, private and/or public. However, most multicloud […]


Deployment Models, Public Cloud

Admin automation: the serverless low-hanging fruit

January 11, 2018

Via: Network World Cloud Computing

If we could go back in time and start using public cloud in 2009, we’d probably be better off today. The AWS beta started in 2006 and was entirely API-driven, without either a console or a command line interface to […]


Deployment Models, Hybrid Cloud

Continuous Monitoring for Your Hybrid Cloud Systems

January 5, 2018

Via: Cloud Expo

Cavirin Systems has just announced C2, a SaaS offering designed to bring continuous security assessment and remediation to hybrid environments, containers, and data centers. Cavirin C2 is deployed within Amazon Web Services (AWS) and features a flexible licensing model for […]


Deployment Models, Others

Will Multi-Clouds Play Nice Together?

January 2, 2018

Via: Cloud Expo

The last two years has seen discussions about cloud computing evolve from the public / private / hybrid split to the reality that most enterprises will be creating a complex, multi-cloud strategy. Companies are wary of committing all of their […]


Deployment Models, Hybrid Cloud

At Ignite, Microsoft extends hybrid cloud beyond just infrastructure

December 29, 2017

Via: Network World Cloud Computing

For years Microsoft has talked about, previewed and at some times delayed the release of its Azure Stack hybrid cloud computing platform. But this week at its Ignite conference in Orlando Microsoft announced that Azure Stack is now shipping to […]


Deployment Models, Private Cloud

How to create self-driving private clouds

December 28, 2017

Via: Network World Cloud Computing

A few years ago, the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) outlined the five stages of self-driving vehicles. In actuality, there are six levels, but the zero level is no automation, so we will ignore that. The idea behind the different phases […]


Global Cloud

Cloud migration: How to know if you’re going too fast or too slow

December 28, 2017

Via: InfoWorld Cloud Computing

Companies have decreased their spending on traditional system deployments to fund their cloud migration activities. Indeed, the IaaS market—including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Google—has been exploding with growth over 40 percent in revenue per year since 2011, according to […]


Global Cloud

5 cloud computing trends to prepare for in 2018

December 11, 2017

Via: Network World Cloud Computing

As we enter the last quarter of 2017, business and IT executives are turning more of their attention to how they can use technology to accomplish their 2018 business objectives. We’ve compiled a list of five trends in cloud computing […]


Deployment Models, Hybrid Cloud

Mixing and matching massively hybrid applications: the future of cloud

December 8, 2017

Via: Network World Cloud Computing

A year ago, IDC told us that 68 percent of organizations have adopted cloud for enterprise applications—and that it’s not just about cost, but about revenue increases as well. That study also says that 73 percent of respondents, who spanned […]


Deployment Models, Public Cloud

The Value of Extending IT Infrastructure to the Public Cloud

December 6, 2017

Via: Talkin' Cloud

Companies are working to transform themselves digitally, and there is perhaps no more important driver than the cloud. However, as more and more companies are discovering, there’s no single path when it comes to moving to the cloud. Rather, an […]


Global Cloud

Centralized security in the cloud is the best security model

December 5, 2017

Via: InfoWorld Cloud Computing

It’s 6:00 a.m. on a Monday morning. You get an automated text from your security systems that a DDOS attack was attempted, but new security policies downloaded several hours earlier proactively protected the systems from the attacking IP address. All […]


Deployment Models, Hybrid Cloud, Private Cloud, Public Cloud

Hybrid cloud? Private cloud? Public cloud? Multicloud? How to choose

November 6, 2017

Via: InfoWorld Cloud Computing

My article “Don’t waste your time with a hybrid cloud” has gotten many people seeing red, and I can understand why. Many enterprise IT shops, and most enterprise technology companies, have pledged allegiance to the hybrid cloud model. The intellectual […]


Deployment Models, Hybrid Cloud

What is hybrid cloud computing?

October 31, 2017

Via: Network World Cloud Computing

Hybrid cloud: Many believe it’s the eventual state that most businesses will operate in – some infrastructure resources on premises, others in the public cloud. Others believe it’s a term that has been muddled by varied definitions from a range […]


Deployment Models, Others

How cloud HCM data can fuel new revenue streams

September 13, 2017

Via: Gartner Blog Network

The cloud transition of human capital management (HCM) applications is well underway. Gartner estimates that the top three HCM application providers combined are currently managing more than 100 million employee records with their cloud solutions. With the currently forecasted trend of cloud […]