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Can Multicloud Management Solve All Your IT Problems?
March 9, 2018 by
Christine Cignoli
Cloud Computing, Industry Insights
As the GDPR go-live date approaches in late May, we’ve heard some buzz as companies examine their data to see if they’ll be in line with the new EU requirements. It’s such an interconnected global world now that most businesses, even American ones, need to be ready for any GDPR fallout. Fines will be stiff…Continue reading
Planning Your Network Technology Future? Many Choices Ahead
November 3, 2017 by
Christine Cignoli
Industry Insights, Networking Technology
The fall ONUG conference a few weeks back explored lots of emerging networking technology and trends. Here’s a good look into some of those, including network infrastructure consolidation, where SD-WAN functionality is packaged into a larger product that also offers routing, security and other features. Then there’s automation, which one expert argues is the only…Continue reading
To Cloud Infinity, and Beyond
June 2, 2017 by
Christine Cignoli
Cloud Computing, Industry Insights
Both vendors and cloud users continue to push cloud adoption strategy ever further. This week in Building More Data Centers, Google Cloud Platform announced its third availability zone in its Oregon region. With the new zone, Google Cloud also added new services for users—CloudSQL and regional Managed Instance Groups, which can be used to spread VMs…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
How to Manage Hybrid and Multicloud Environments (No, They Aren’t the Same)
April 10, 2017 by
Joe Michalowski
Networking Technology, Performance Monitoring
Even for the most seasoned IT pros, the cloud is complicated. It can be difficult just to wrap your head around the many terms and acronyms that make up the cloud dictionary—not to mention actually mastering the technology. Unfortunately, complicated cloud terms are often combined to the point that their meanings are lost in a…Continue reading
Even the Cloud Has Its 1%…But the 99% are Forging Ahead Quickly
January 27, 2017 by
Christine Cignoli
Cloud Computing, Industry Insights
For your weekly dose of industry numbers, let’s start with this: Just 1% of cloud survey respondents will use no cloud services at all in the next two years. That’s according to the Interop ITX/InformationWeek survey on the state of cloud computing. We’re curious how even that 1% is managing to avoid the rapid rise…Continue reading
How to Embrace Multicloud
January 25, 2017 by
Christine Cignoli
Cloud Computing, Industry Insights, Performance Monitoring
Just when you thought you’d heard every cloud-related term out there, here’s a new(ish) one: multicloud. This one, at least, is pretty straightforward. It refers to businesses using more than one public cloud provider at a time. Now that there’s more than one mature public cloud option (sorry, AWS), you can actually take a best-of-breed…Continue reading