Tag: Cloud Strategy

June 10, 2020

With organizations increasingly moving to cloud environments, cloud security is more critical than ever. Cloud environments often hold large troves of valuable and sensitive data that can put organizations and their customers at risk if they are breached. At the […]

May 7, 2020

Remote workforces have become increasingly mainstream over the past few years due to several benefits, and more recently, out of necessity. In the U.S., the remote workforce increased 159 percent from 2005 to 2017, according to Flexjobs. As of February […]

February 7, 2020

The answer to the question of why cloud computing is so popular could be that it comprises myriad benefits. These include agility, collaboration and productivity, along with the flexibility to create new cloud environments on an ad-hoc basis whenever they’re […]

January 9, 2020

More than 85 percent of companies already operate in multicloud environments and by 2021, 98 percent plan to use multiple hybrid clouds, according to the IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV). After cloud adoption, the application modernization trend follows, with […]

August 14, 2019

Each company has its own business and technical drivers for moving to a multi-cloud strategy, and they are tailoring solutions specifically to their own specific needs. Multi-cloud allows enterprises to deliver services across both private and public clouds, which enables […]

July 23, 2019

For these reasons we see many organisations choosing a path to drive a ’cloud first’ strategy and in particular the use of one or more public clouds, known as ‘multi-cloud’. However, whilst public cloud may deliver these objectives there are […]

July 22, 2019

In the first chapter of cloud, we saw that enterprises were primarily focused on cost management and driving new workload innovation on the cloud. This included everything from building cloud-native applications to migrating less complex and more easily portable workloads […]

May 13, 2019

Cloud migration challenges continue to bedevil enterprises, despite the fact that the cloud itself has been around for nearly 20 years. Many enterprises have yet to realize the full promise of an abstract, distributed, federated data environment because migrations are […]

May 6, 2019

The term “cloud first” has different meanings for different organizations, and no two companies’ journeys to a cloud-first position are exactly alike. That’s why outlining a cloud strategy road map, a thorough guide to embracing the cloud, can help organizations […]

February 12, 2019

There are no two ways about it. It’s a multicloud world. With most businesses already running and trying to manage five or more cloud environments, often from multiple vendors, companies are struggling with how to keep up. The IBV paper […]

January 4, 2019

IT loves its enterprise data centers. Who can blame IT? Data centers are LED light works of modern art these days. Indeed, I like visiting data centers just to enjoy how they are designed and watch the lights blink. The […]

May 18, 2017

Blame it on poor copy data management, compliance requirements or the internet of things (IoT), but data storage volumes are growing exponentially, and that growth shows no signs of abating. Managing skyrocketing storage demands on limited resources is a top […]

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 […]

March 30, 2017

In a survey, cloud security broker vendor CipherCloud found that 86 percent of cloud applications used at workplaces are unsanctioned. That’s a pretty big percentage. Obviously, the security vendors have an incentive to raise such fears about shadow IT, so […]

November 14, 2016

Since its introduction in 2009, Microsoft Azure has gone through a significant transformation. What started as a hardcore set of platform services is now a force to be reckoned within the infrastructure market as well. According to Gartner, Azure is inching […]

May 24, 2016

IT professionals are under increasing pressure to deliver an advanced, coordinated IT capability across all sites in a business, no matter how remote or how small. But, as always, this must be achieved without putting further strain on already overstretched […]

April 11, 2016

The new strategy builds on the ROADS experience model – Real-time, On-demand, All-online, DIY, and Social – which was launch at the same event 12 months ago. While the ROADS framework focuses on delivering improved user experience, All-Cloud centres on […]

April 11, 2016

From EMC’s CEO purporting to have the solution that will change the game, to VMware’s assertion that it is already leading the industry, their move on the market which is growing at more than 150 per cent annually, comes with […]

February 9, 2016

With rapidly evolving technologies, many enterprise-level organizations find themselves behind their competition in the market.  The traditional boundaries between industries are being blurred by new business models.  Like Uber and Instagram, new business models are being powered by disruptive technologies […]