In a previous post we discussed Azure & OpenStack, the less-explored hybrid cloud, and we thought we’d segue on the hybrid cloud theme, and follow up with an additional post focusing on a question we’re often asked … Azure or AWS? It’s one of the most common questions enterprise customers today face as they look […]
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 […]
How to align your DevOps and Cloud Initiatives
Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) practices, which in turn are made possible through infrastructure or platform clouds (IaaS or PaaS), solve many important issues related to continuous delivery and DevOps. Therefore, the implementation of IaaS and PaaS in a private, hybrid or public cloud model should always be aligned with your DevOps initiative. In a previous article, I […]
ARA tools can help you move apps easily to the cloud
Chances are your organization has already moved some of its applications to the cloud. There, storage and computing capacity are provided as services, and everybody in your enterprise can access the apps and related data via the internet. As we all know, the cloud enables organizations to scale up or down quickly according to their […]
Defining On-Prem
Sometimes, the meaning of a word or a phrase changes so quickly that you don’t even notice that it’s changed; at some point, you just realize that you’ve been using it differently. Take “on-prem,” for example. Not too long ago, if you said that a component of your IT system was on-prem, you meant that […]
ProfitBricks shakes things up with new Docker hosting platform
Organizations and developers that want to leverage Docker containers have a variety of cloud platforms to choose from. Rackspace, Amazon, Azure and others all support Docker containers. There’s also a relative newcomer in the mix looking to shake things up. ProfitBricks is an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) company that believes it has a unique value proposition for […]
Migrating to the Cloud? Some practical advice
Oh if the world was only Greenfields. If everything was new and we didn’t have to worry about legacy systems, what a wonderful world it would be. But that is not the way of it unfortunately. More times than not using the cloud for our applications and infrastructure means migrating some existing infrastructure from an […]
Equalizing IT infrastructure with DevOps
IT is getting more complex. Managing on-premise servers, cloud servers, and hybrid environments that span various operating systems and standards creates challenges for IT admins. DevOps technologies and platforms, however, can be an equalizing force among the cloud chaos—making it easier for organizations to deploy servers and applications quickly and consistently regardless of platform or […]
Ops is dead, long live DevOps
Yes, that’s a bold statement, but if the vibe at the recent AWS re:Invent conference was any indication there are a number of methodologies, technologies, and companies working to make that a reality. This article isn’t focused on whether this is a good or bad thing (my personal belief is that ops will always be […]