Raise your hand if you feel like your IT group is overstaffed.
Ali Mahmoud, on Sep 10, 2019 3:08:41 PM
Raise your hand if you feel like your IT group is overstaffed.
Jaimie Sinclair, on Dec 21, 2018 1:20:50 PM
Being a cloud administrator is hard work.
And if you’re reading this, I probably don’t have to tell you that.
More and more, end users rely on computing resources and services to do their jobs effectively – which can be a challenge (not to mention a time-suck) for system administrators.
Dan Murphy, on Sep 12, 2018 8:56:41 AM
The way enterprises do business is changing. With the emergence of microservices, companies are able to bring innovative products to market faster and more cost effectively than ever before. Cloud services have evolved from back-end services used to support the business to critical components of enterprise strategy to create differentiation and drive the business forward. Businesses today need to deliver features, solutions and services more rapidly than ever before.
Ian Lee, on May 17, 2018 8:33:00 AM
Cloud initiatives are typically easy to manage by IT administration teams… as long as the initiatives remain small. But as soon as that scale increases, the complexity also rises, leading to difficulties in the effective coordination and management of the IT services, with the consequences being that service quality and responsiveness suffers.
Ian Lee, on May 10, 2018 10:03:51 AM
DevOps is a methodology of iterative software development that embraces close collaboration between contributing software developers, QA and IT operations staff.
Ian Lee, on Apr 5, 2018 8:30:00 AM
Implementing an integrated cloud management platform is the key first step on the path to a hybrid cloud, or multi-cloud infrastructure. By providing a single pane of glass across all of the disparate cloud services, whether private or public, you’re able to view all of the various dimensions of your infrastructure. This includes:
Ian Lee, on Mar 29, 2018 8:30:00 AM
The key to implementing complex projects is to break them down into smaller, less intimidating steps – ones that can be easily focused on and dealt with one at a time. So, when it comes to embarking on a cloud management project, the same rules apply, and there are a common set of management and automation features that are required. The good news is you don’t need to tackle them all at once, but you can take small steps with each to ensure success and adoption. These include:
Let’s take a look at each of these features in turn.
Jaimie Sinclair, on Mar 6, 2018 8:30:00 AM
The server virtualization market has come a long way. Today, nearly every enterprise uses virtualization – as it has become a mainstay in public, private and hybrid cloud deployments. As the virtualization market has matured over the years, organizations have evolved their VM strategies far beyond the point of simple virtualization. VM deployments today often include an element of self-service provisioning, where users can create their own virtual machines based on templates that exist in the service cloud.
Ian Lee, on Feb 22, 2018 8:33:00 AM
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Jaimie Sinclair, on Feb 6, 2018 8:30:00 AM
More and more organizations are adopting a mulitcloud strategy, as it provides the flexibility to run workloads across any environment – public, private or managed – and optimizes performance. In fact, according to IDC, over 90 percent of enterprise-scale organizations plan to make use of multiple clouds in the next several years.
