Tag: deployment models

May 19, 2017

RackWare offers a management and automation platform that enterprises use to manage their computing resources to more closely follow demand. RackWare’s core proposition is that its management suite delivers cost savings to customers of a suggested 40 to 50 percent. […]

May 19, 2017

Innovate. Automate. Make it smart. Get to market fast. It’s an exciting time for enterprise, but it’s also one of those “be careful what you wish for” moments. Ease of access to software as a service (SaaS), machine intelligence, and […]

May 17, 2017

There are some fresh public cloud offerings on the horizon for SAP database customers, thanks to Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services. Both companies have announced new infrastructure services for the HANA database software aimed at giving customers tons of […]

May 9, 2017

Rackspace® today announced from the OpenStack Summit in Boston that it has collaborated with Dell EMC to deliver OpenStack®private clouds with leading compute and storage solutions from Dell® EMC®. This offer combines Rackspace operational expertise with Dell EMC compute and […]

May 8, 2017

I do think the shift to cloud is helping. We have data that shows our customers who use cloud actually grow faster in total with us than ones who don’t. The promise of cloud accelerates the Unix-to-Linux migration as people […]

May 5, 2017

Most enterprises across the globe are currently at some stage of the digital transformation journey, and there is no doubt that cloud is a key driving factor. No sector is immune to the impact of digital transformation, particularly as the […]

May 2, 2017

Having a full understanding of end user experience has been theorized in IT circles for decades but has remained as elusive as the Holy Grail or the Fountain of Youth. Some people claim to have seen it, but no one […]

May 2, 2017

By now we all (should) know the benefits of serverless computing in the public cloud. InfoWorld’s Eric Knorr provides a good summary of serverless computing’s advantages, so I won’t go into the details here. What’s most interesting is that as Amazon […]

May 1, 2017

Less than one-fifth of enterprise IT assets are in the cloud, but it looks like more are on the way. One-third of data-center professionals and IT practitioners plan to deploy workloads in the cloud in the next year, according to […]

April 24, 2017

A funny thing happened on the way to the hybrid cloud: Building the infrastructure was a pain in the neck. That’s what enterprise IT people in the Open Networking User Group have discovered Last year, public cloud providers persuaded C-level […]

April 19, 2017

If you want proof that what I’ve been advising for years is true, check out this research on cloud computing from The Register: Planning pays off when it comes to cloud migration and deployments. The Register found that most companies don’t […]

April 19, 2017

Executives at some companies may have a vision of moving their business entirely to the public cloud. But the reality is that most will need a hybrid cloud approach to reach their business goals. The hybrid cloud model uses a […]

April 13, 2017

Odds are you’ve got a hybrid cloud strategy and have already started implementing this approach. That’s just one of the findings in our brand-new 2017 State of Hybrid Cloud research study that digs deeper into the numbers behind hybrid cloud […]

April 12, 2017

The speed at which the enterprise has transitioned from a “cloud-never” to a “cloud-first” posture is astounding. The fear, uncertainty and doubt that gripped the industry when the public cloud was new and exotic has been replaced by a mindset […]

April 6, 2017

When Mark Ross took over the management of  IT infrastructure for Concordia Plan Services two years ago, it had a single point of failure with just one firewall employed, and nearly all data and every application—except payroll and benefits—resided on […]

April 4, 2017

By now, you probably know how popular Docker containers are with technical folks. But do you understand the business case for Docker? Do you know how containers help save companies money? If not, read on. Docker became popular in its […]

April 3, 2017

Startups are playing an increasingly important role in the national economy. According to figures analysed by the Centre for Entrepreneurs, 608,100 new businesses were formed in 2015, an increase of 4.6 per cent compared with the previous year. However, it […]

April 3, 2017

We still see software licenses that are not cloud-friendly and compliance and governance restrictions in some sectors and/or geographies continue to preclude 100 percent cloud infrastructure. Equally, there are many legacy applications that have performance or availability characteristics that just […]

March 31, 2017

IT runs the world and without it the well-behaved, functional technological ecosystem would come to a screeching halt. But the agile, dynamic nature of the tech world provides businesses with many services to consume to meet the bottom-line goals, which […]

March 30, 2017

The decision to use public cloud infrastructure for big data management is a fairly simple one for IT teams who have an immediate need for storage and computing or who are driven by an organisation-wide initiative. For those weighing their […]