The image below is one that I’ve seen shared a few times. It makes me laugh each time. Like all good jokes, it has a seed of truth, and layers of deeper meaning, whether or not you believe that private cloud is a dead horse that we should have long since stopped flogging. There are …
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VMware on Azure; It Is Not Horizon
Microsoft is releasing a new free tool called Microsoft Azure Migrate, which will aid VMware customers in moving their applications to Azure. Yes, that is correct: VMware on Azure! To be fair, this is not the biggest news. The announcement appears in its entirety here, and the relevant section is pulled out below: Host VMware infrastructure …
Second-Quarter Cloud Vendor Highlights
The second quarter highlights based on the cloud vendors’ conference calls is now in, and all reports seem to indicate another strong and healthy quarter in the public cloud space. The companies that have reported in and are a part of this highlight are Amazon, Microsoft, Google, IBM, Oracle, and SAP. While the overall cloud marketplace with these vendors remains healthy and growing, there are a couple of areas within the marketplace to showcase.
The New Oracle Cloud, Public Cloud for Enterprises
Over the last few years, we have seen Oracle go from being a cloud denier to proclaiming itself the largest cloud company (by some measure or other). I had not been exposed to the Oracle cloud message until very recently, so I was cynical about what I heard. One challenge is that Oracle is known …
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RightScale State of the Cloud Report for 2017
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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Is 2017 the Year When Cloud Migrations Really Take Off?
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.