Tag: hybrid cloud

March 16, 2022

Cisco and NetApp have upgraded their converged-infrastructure platform, FlexPod, to handle hybrid-cloud services. FlexPod–which Cisco and NetApp have been building since 2010 and has some 10,000 customers the vendors say–includes integrated Cisco UCS servers and networking gear and NetApp ONTAP […]

March 1, 2022

Everyone in tech likely thinks they know what “cloud computing” and “networking” mean, but they’re probably wrong, and their misconceptions about the first topic color their view of the second. Yes, the cloud is dominating computing, but most stuff isn’t […]

February 8, 2022

If you asked me five years ago if I thought hybrid cloud was a cop out – a misinformed strategy for businesses that weren’t ready to transform hard enough – I probably would have said yes. I saw the allure […]

February 3, 2022

Hybrid cloud is now the default infrastructure for most enterprises. In fact, 82 per cent now have a hybrid cloud strategy – with an average of 2.6 public and 2.7 private clouds per organisation. But a lot of this adoption […]

January 24, 2022

There is huge momentum in moving IT infrastructure to the public cloud. It enables IT departments to avoid the up-front costs of buying hardware and maintaining on-premise enterprise systems. In Forrester’s The future of enterprise data storage report, analysts discussed […]

January 10, 2022

The cloud is no longer some distant, separate place. Yes, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google maintain unimaginably vast expanses of servers in cloud data centers around the world – as do thousands of SaaS providers. But those clouds and the services […]

January 10, 2022

For a growing number of organizations, IT environments encompass a blend of public cloud services, private clouds, and on-premises infrastructure—with the latter becoming an ever-smaller portion of the mix. The past two years have seen a major uptick in the […]

December 8, 2021

While cloud companies such as AWS are offering enterprise customers new ways to get applications off the mainframe and into the cloud, IBM moved this week to keep them on the Big Iron. IBM rolled out a portal it calls […]

December 8, 2021

A decade ago, when enterprises seriously started migrating their data and file storage to a single cloud service from servers sitting in data centers, it was a fairly simple process to keep track of offsite storage costs. Most companies had […]

December 6, 2021

There has been a marked reversal of momentum in many aspects of the technologies we are using. Organisations used to use top-down development practices as the primary rationale for the platforms they adopted and the applications and services they developed. […]

December 3, 2021

Understanding the benefits of hybrid cloud is easy enough. Actually building a hybrid cloud environment can be more challenging. That’s not because there’s a shortage of hybrid cloud tools. On the contrary, there are a variety of platforms and frameworks […]

November 11, 2021

Despite all the promises of secure access service edge (SASE), some challenges lie ahead for organizations looking to adopt and implement SASE technologies and practices in a hybrid cloud environment. These include driving the required organizational change to make this […]

November 5, 2021

Use of single or private cloud has trended downward from 29% in 2019 to only 2% in 2021. This comes from a recent IBM study. In case you think I was burying the lead, this leads to the logical conclusion […]

October 29, 2021

Emerging technologies underpin the innovative services and products that can make the difference between the success and failure of a business. These technologies are essential to keep pace with the accelerating changes currently exerting their influence on most industries around […]

October 25, 2021

There are many compelling reasons why the hybrid cloud industry is forecasted to grow 17% in 2021. When you add a public cloud provider or another on-premises solution into your existing system, it expands the options you have available to […]

October 11, 2021

Organizations continue the aggressive movement of their operations to the cloud. According to Flexera’s 2021 State of the Cloud report, 80% of enterprises are utilizing a hybrid cloud strategy. Respondents to Flexera’s report estimate that 30% of their organizations’ cloud […]

October 5, 2021

VMware has introduced a barrage of new software and cloud services designed to simplify and speed up their customers’ journey to multi-cloud environments. As the company kicked off its virtual VMworld 2021 conference Tuesday, VMware announced new technology initiatives including […]

September 2, 2021

The pivot of many enterprises toward hybrid cloud architectures has upended all corners of the colocation market. In an era when workloads routinely span public cloud environments and colocation facilities, colocation providers large and small face ever-increasing pressure to deliver […]

August 26, 2021

Choosing a cloud provider is complicated enough when you plan to run all of your workloads within a single public cloud: You have to compare the various features and pricing schedules that different cloud providers offer to determine the best […]

August 25, 2021

Security continues to be one of the top concerns for 90 percent of our clients adopting cloud. It’s further intensified with 75 percent of the clients embracing a multicloud deployment model. Cloud introduces a decentralized model that makes managing policies […]