Here’s how companies can keep multi-cloud challenges like complexity and unexpected costs at a minimum and fuel innovation in the cloud.
Most Organizations Benefit From a Mature Cloud Strategy
HashiCorp’s State of Cloud Strategy Survey found increased cloud maturity equated to increased overall value.
How to Build an Options-Based Observability Strategy
The global pandemic forced companies to accelerate their digital transformations, pushing them toward new technologies and architectures as they struggled to adapt to a changing world. Companies wanted fast development and deployment and were happy to trade off efficiency, reliability and sometimes, security, to pursue their goals. Now that the pandemic is receding in many […]
Designing Cost-Efficient Cloud Environments
Today, the days of on-premises data centers are mostly behind us, and the cloud has largely taken over with the promise of scalability, flexibility and cost-efficiency. Despite these promises, the cloud often falls short of these ideals. Why? Because managing the cloud is hard—especially when it comes to managing its costs. There are no automatic […]
Strategy vs. Tactics
IT Modernization Yields Business Benefits Even in Early Stages
In recent years, with the emergence of newer technologies ranging from the cloud to machine learning, IT modernization has evolved from a replacement of end-of-life infrastructure to an enabler of innovation and business value. It is a complex process that can take months or even years, but a recent survey shows that the effort begins […]
Making Your Cloud Work For You
Does your cloud work for you, or do you work for your cloud? Given the enormous dependency and costs associated with cloud computing, that is a question more and more DevOps teams are asking these days. After more than a decade of pressure from higher-ups to move workloads to the public cloud, DevOps teams are […]
Kubernetes Adoption: Are You Ready?
Enterprises are rapidly embracing a cloud-first strategy and microservices play a pivotal role in this journey. But enterprises are achieving various levels of success, measured by many factors includingmaturity of DevOps in the enterprise, ability to identify the right candidates for microservices, selecting the appropriate container management platform, adequate tooling and, finally, cultural shift in […]
Cloud Orchestrators: Beneficial in a Multi-Cloud Environment
Recent outages of leading cloud providers affecting thousands of business worldwide, such as the Amazon Web Services S3 outage that occurred in late February, have forced many CIOs and CTOs to think hard about their cloud strategies, including whether a multi-cloud environment would be of benefit. ROI and Business Impact During AWS’ four-hour disruption, S&P […]