Why Private Cloud?
Tech news sites love stories about disruption, and the public cloud has certainly been disruptive. As hyperscale cloud providers grow and develop new technologies, they tend to frame it as…
Developing a Cloud Migration Strategy: Why a Cookie Cutter Approach Won’t Work
Your cloud migration strategy needs to meet your company where it is, not where it should be. Your IT landscape has grown up with your company, accumulating customized business processes,…
Outsourcing Cloud Services: Planning For the Right Outcomes
Most enterprises have a good understanding of their IT needs on the front end. However, when it comes to finding someone to help them configure and run that landscape, very…
Choosing the Right Cloud: Capacity Management, Security & Cost
Traditionally, enterprises use multiple clouds optimized for different types of workloads. Although having a variety of different assets can pose cloud capacity management challenges and lead to fragmentation, the benefits…
What Disaster Recovery Test Exercises Say About Your MSP
Disaster recovery is often compared to life insurance — a way for wealthy organizations to insure their assets against a worst-case scenario. But with the reliance of modern businesses on…
How to Create a Disaster Recovery Plan [Template]
When it comes to disaster recovery planning, most organizations cross their fingers and hope for the best. Many are using hopelessly outdated tape backups in bare cold DR sites, with…
How Secure is the Cloud?
If someone asked you “how safe is a community,” how would you respond? Would you ask what kind of community they mean, tell them about the community you live in,…
Why the Benefits of Cloud Services Depend on the Vendor
The cloud has been so hyped that companies often see it as an automatic strategic win. Business executivescurrently cite scalability, agility, cost and innovation as the most important benefits of cloud…
3 ERP Problems Solved by Next Generation Cloud
Cloud computing is a mature technology; it’s developed to the point where it’s powerful, reliable and backed up by enterprise cloud services professionals with a deep understanding of the technology. But in…
The Pros and Cons of SAP HANA® Enterprise Cloud
Although almost everyone is in the cloud, many companies are still reluctant to migrate core applications offsite. Cloud security and compliance concerns in particular prevent many organizations from realizing the benefits…