Tag: cloud projects

March 15, 2022

I’m on the cloud. You’re on the cloud. We’re all on the cloud. According to Flexera’s State of the Cloud 2022 survey, almost two-thirds of all SMB workloads are now on the cloud. But, as we move more and more […]

July 23, 2021

Looking to ramp up for huge cloud projects but limited by the number of qualified people you can find? You’re not alone. According to Gartner, “insufficient cloud [infrastructure-as-a-service] skills will delay half of enterprise IT organizations’ migration to the cloud […]

April 28, 2020

Undertaking digital transformation means also transforming how IT success is defined, including metrics that address business in the cloud. With up to 90% of budgets spent keeping the lights on, cost is always an important metric for IT. Yet, the […]

March 1, 2019

In my years as a cloud computing consultant, I am always taken back by my client’s request to have techs with vertical-specific knowledge help with their cloud projects. Moreover, they seek vertical-specific clouds and cloud services, or clouds that are […]

April 13, 2018

A free, open-source platform, OpenStack was created with the ambitious target of giving infrastructure-as-a-service to consumers in a rapid, self-serve manner. It is now one of the most popular open-source cloud projects with the likes of eBay and Walmart relying […]

February 10, 2017

A lot of cloud computing projects fail in that they do not bring the promised ROI. In my book, if a project cannot live up to the projected ROI, it has failed. There are three common cloud mistakes that lead […]

January 4, 2017

In the migration to the cloud, enterprises quickly learn that adaptability — the willingness to change — has to happen. Failure to adapt can turn minor problems into massive damage. For example, a large enterprise that migrates 100 applications to […]