Imagine this scenario: You are a company building modern software which is a key driver of your business. To support this, you have grown your infrastructure organically over time by adding servers, storage, networks, security, virtualization software, monitoring, alerting and analytics tools. You have also added a plethora of other middleware, databases, messaging and operating systems that your developers need […]
Moving to the Cloud? Consider These Questions
The cloud is going mainstream. That’s the word from a recent Cisco Systems-sponsored study, which found that more than two-thirds of organizations are using the cloud to “help drive business outcomes”—a whopping 61 percent increase from the previous year’s study. But almost the same number aren’t maximizing the true value of cloud computing. What does […]
DevOps: The (Absolutely Critical) Cloud Enabler
A couple weeks ago, I gave a talk titled, “DevOps: The Cloud Enabler” at a conference. As I was putting together some requisite materials previewing my session, I made a few mistakes. (Yes, I’ll readily admit it.) I used the words “should” and “can” and “consider.” Instead, the words “must” or “not optional” or “operationally […]
Financial Drivers for Cloud Migration in Enterprise
Clouds are a vast pool of usable and manageable virtualized means such as development platforms, hardware and services. These assets can be animatedly reconfigured to adjust to a flexible load, which helps in the optimal utilization of resources. Your enterprise breathes through IT—to keep your business moving forward, you must modernize and be more flexible […]
6 Key Considerations When Migrating to AWS
Every day, more and more organizations take the plunge and migrate to the Amazon Web Services public cloud. What they leave behind is the cumbersomeness of the traditional data center, but despite the cloud’s benefits in scalability, agility and efficiency, they discover a new set of challenges that need to be overcome. Gartner estimates that […]
Cloud or In-house with Chris Kinsman, Part 1
I sat down last week with Chris Kinsman, Chief Architect at PushSpring and a 20+ year veteran of software development, to talk about the factors that go into deciding when to migrate to the cloud. In Part 1 we’ll talk about what factors into the business and technical cases, and in Part 2 well look […]
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