Browsing posts filed under: Cloud Computing
Ask the Right Cloud Questions
May 26, 2017 by Christine Cignoli
Cloud Computing, Industry Insights
When you’re making a cloud move, ask the right questions before you spend the money. This list is a good rundown of what to ask internally, including business function priorities, which applications to move to the cloud and when, and what type of integrations you might choose. Plus, asking the hard questions before moving apps…Continue reading
How to Bring Your Call Center Into the 21st Century
May 23, 2017 by Joe Michalowski
Cloud Computing, Industry Insights
What’s the end goal of digital transformation? You’re updating business processes and internal applications, but for most business leaders, the ultimate focus is becoming more agile to meet the changing demands of customers. Unfortunately, legacy-laden call centers are often lost in the mix, or are low on the digital transformation priority list. The problem is…Continue reading
Cloud Adoption Is Not One-Size-Fits-All
May 19, 2017 by Christine Cignoli
Cloud Computing, Industry Insights
It’s always nice to hear the stories about a company’s entire IT infrastructure journey, and what may have changed along the way. These stories of shifting cloud adoption trends and plans are useful for anyone on a similar IT path. For the state of Kansas, private cloud initially seemed like the best fit. Costs quickly…Continue reading
Location, Location…Latency: Is Your Remote Infrastructure Ready?
May 18, 2017 by Kristen Ramos
Cloud Computing, Performance Monitoring
In today’s increasingly mobile workplace, organizations need to consider productivity, operational efficiency, and business continuity when migrating their employees, data centers and critical applications to the cloud. As new collaboration technologies make productive, remote teamwork possible, businesses can expect their roster of off-site employees to continue to grow. Along with employees working remotely, companies today…Continue reading
Three Critical Areas to Consider Before Migrating Data to the Cloud
May 15, 2017 by Sharon Ward
Organizations of all sizes are choosing to conduct at least part of their business in the cloud, and choosing which cloud provider to work with is an important part of that process. The provider can mean the difference between a cloud migration that goes off without a hitch, and one that causes delays, additional expenses and…Continue reading
Why IT Pros Need Mapmaking Skills
May 10, 2017 by Joe Michalowski
Cloud Computing, Performance Monitoring
A recent survey found that 85% of enterprise decision makers feel they have just two years to execute digital transformation before they start falling behind the competition. And who do you think they’ll turn to for support in this endeavor? The IT department, of course. Because the cloud is such a critical component of digital…Continue reading
At Gartner, It’s About IT Relevance
May 7, 2017 by Damian Roskill
Cloud Computing, Industry Insights
For the next few days, AppNeta has set up camp here at the Gartner IOSS show. This summit is a place for us to hear about others’ visions for the IT future. We’re surrounded by analysts, speakers and the attendees who are taking on IT challenges every day at work. We know what our AppNeta…Continue reading
Balance Cloud and On-Premises Workloads Carefully
May 5, 2017 by Christine Cignoli
Cloud Computing, Industry Insights
Here’s another cloud adoption survey to add to your market research data, this one conducted late last year by Intel Security. Some new and interesting data points in here are on software-defined data centers: 73% of enterprises surveyed are moving to that model within two years. And while hybrid cloud adoption is growing rapidly, almost…Continue reading
It’s Time to Make Cloud Management a Real IT Practice
May 3, 2017 by Joe Michalowski
Cloud challenges are escalating for IT leaders. First, you just wanted visibility into the different cloud services your employees were signing up for so you weren’t blindsided by shadow IT. Now, suddenly you’re being inundated with cloud management demands. But the idea of cloud management seems fairly simple. If you’re monitoring the availability of SaaS…Continue reading
Best Practices for Synthetic Monitoring
May 2, 2017 by Alec Pinkham
Cloud Computing, Performance Monitoring
Synthetic monitoring is a modern way to see the performance of today’s SaaS and web applications and networks. It uses scripting to emulate the paths that end users take as they experience an application. Why We Need Best Practices for Synthetics Synthetic monitoring provides IT staff with performance context for business-critical SaaS and web apps.…Continue reading
