RightScale just published its annual report on the state of the cloud, and some of the key findings are very interesting. Topics range from cloud vendor market share to cloud adoption concerns, DevOps tools adoption, public vs. private cloud adoption, and much more. Below, I highlight the major findings I thought most interesting and follow each with …
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Everywhere we look, cloud is the big buzzword. Digital transformation insists that we embrace cloud computing as the next evolution of our enterprise. Microsoft, Amazon, Citrix, and VMware, among many others, are all focused on cloud and mobility as the next logical step forward. Upstart companies like Netflix are the trailblazers, embracing the cloud completely …
Is 2017 the year that cloud migrations really take off? First, let me preface that statement by defining the term cloud migrations to mean applications or workloads that have or will be migrated to an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) or Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) platform. With that said, Corporations in general, have been laying down the groundwork by training, hiring and or building a cloud services team that will also encompass a cloud migration group or what is also commonly referred to as the migration factories. All the pieces have been put into place and what is left is the execution of the migration. For some companies, the overall cloud strategy is a strategy to not just get to the cloud, but also could be a strategy to get control of the workloads that may have been deployed to the public cloud along the way.
In IT there is not simply more than one way to skin a cat. There are multiple philosophies describing the methods. Most of these philosophies are based on preference and history, and on how, where, and when we learn, but not so much on what is necessarily the best way. Much of the how and when is linked …
It seems that HCI is a real product segment, and everyone wants in on the market. Cisco is already in with its Springpath partnership for the HyperFlex products. Nutanix is steadfastly going it alone with its successful IPO and a grand vision of future computing. Last week, HPE announced its acquisition of SimpliVity. Having worked …
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On January 11, 2017, AppSense announced the general availability of version 10.1 of its DesktopNow suite. Version 10.0 has been around since June of 2016, but the imminent arrival of Server 2016 led to a rapid movement toward 10.1, which is now viewed as the latest “stable” release. This seems to have been a one-off, …
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