As organizations ascend to the cloud, their cloud expenses are floating to the same lofty heights. But are all cloud costs necessary? The answer is a resounding no — there’s a lot of waste. In 2020, organizations wasted $17.6 billion on idle cloud resources and cloud overspending, according to ParkMyCloud. Data egress, upgrades and subscriptions […]
Should I Stay or Should I Go? A Cloudy Decision
If you’ve been operating in the cloud for some time now, chances are your business has changed since you first made that move and particularly during the current climate. Has your cloud usage grown considerably — and your OpEx costs? Is that just the cost of doing business in the cloud? It doesn’t have to […]
How to Implement a Data Self-Service Program
Data self-service is a hot topic these days. By giving different people across an organization–marketers, technologists, business leaders, etc.–access to available data and analytics tools, you empower business users and decision makers to do their jobs effectively. But data self-service is still a work in progress at most organizations. According to a recent survey by IDG […]
Castles in the Cloud: How to Take Your Business Kingdom Off-Prem with Confidence
Cloud transformation requires migrating all or part of an organization’s virtual assets off-premises, typically to a public cloud. This enables greater efficiency and cost savings, among other benefits, but it brings heightened risk as well. At the same time, many organizations moving to the cloud don’t fully understand the implications in terms of security. Consequently, […]
Infrastructure as Code and Six Key Automation Concepts
This summer, I walked into an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) flame war because I was blissfully unaware of just how broadly IaC had been reinterpreted. Reviewing the comments, it’s clear that thinking has evolved since Kief Morris’ 2016 Infrastructure as Code tomb. So, after strapping on my asbestos suit, I decided to dig into what […]
Why Salesforce?
Over the past 20 years, Salesforce has become the fastest growing enterprise software platform, and a market leader in sales, service, marketing, integration and custom application development among other areas. Although there are many reasons why a company might adopt or consider using Salesforce, the overriding value proposition is that it provides tons of capabilities […]
Out of Date: Cloud Anti-Trends of 2019
Let’s talk about 2019 cloud tech anti-trends. A lot of those anti-trends are nothing but cloud myths, which are still widely spread and talked about. In this article, we’ll take a look at some anti-trends and try to understand where’s the myth part in them. Private Cloud Is Not Popular Anymore According to the IDC […]
How DevOps Replaces the BYOD Mindset
The impasse is clear: users often have no formal way to effectively communicate to IT departments how certain devices and apps are useful for work and should be allowed to connect to the enterprise’s network. Since the debut of smart phones well over a decade ago, so-called bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies as a potential solution have […]
With a Multicloud Infrastructure, Control is Key
Ask any developer or DevOps manager about their first experiences with the public cloud and it’s likely they’ll happily share some memories of quickly provisioning some compute instances for a small project or new app. For (seemingly) a few pennies, you could take full advantage of the full suite of public cloud services—as well as […]
Should You Go ‘Serverless’? The Pros and Cons
The popularity of the “serverless” term started to grow when Amazon launched AWS Lambda in 2014. Ever since, we’ve seen the term exponentially grow in use and reference, with more vendors entering the market with their own solutions (Azure recently went GA with Functions, for example). What is it all about and how does this […]