It is no secret that enterprise infrastructures are undergoing major changes. Growing use of public cloud, SaaS, and SD-WAN in 2019 will play a significant role in the way infrastructures evolve. 2018 has seen the acceleration of modern infrastructure from public cloud, SaaS, hybrid, and SD-WAN. 2019 will see enterprises feeling the impact of this […]
Concerned About Cloud Security? This ‘Just Right’ Solution Might be the Answer for You
As the cloud has become a ubiquitous part of business life over the last few years, there are still lingering concerns and misconceptions around cloud security. Thanks to ever-diligent media coverage surrounding the technology sector, everyone seems to understand that cloud technology is ever increasing in importance. However, while we know it will shape the […]
The Business Insights Hidden in Your Cloud Apps
Organizations that proactively monitor cloud applications gain critical insights into security, usage, performance, and compliance. The cloud business is booming. Organizations want to take advantage of the cost savings, increased efficiencies, and greater productivity. In the process, they take on a hoard of additional data due to increased user activity. This introduces a whole slew of […]
Moving to IaaS: Big Changes Required
Develop a well-thought-out approach to the migration and make sure your management and operations teams understand the potential opportunities and challenges. There are some huge opportunities for improvements in moving enterprise services to the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud, but there are some equally daunting challenges — both technical and operational. Demand for public cloud infrastructure, or […]
Cloud Security Concerns: IT vs. LoB
Data shows a divide in perceptions on cloud security between IT and lines of business. The cloud is here. You may choose to use cloud-based applications with software as a service (SaaS). Alternately, you may choose your own applications resident in the cloud with platform as a service (PaaS). In either case, you will likely […]
Top 5 Challenges of Monitoring Multi-cloud Environments
Today’s enterprises use many different clouds, which makes monitoring and management more difficult than ever. For most enterprises, multi-cloud has become the new normal. RightScale’s 2018 State of the Cloud Report found that 81 percent of enterprises are using multiple public or private clouds. In fact, on average, they are using 4.8 different clouds. In […]
Security Concerns Forcing Organizations to Rethink Cloud Strategies
Securing today’s increasingly complex multi-cloud environments requires much more than simply having a security platform available on a particular infrastructure. For the last several years, one of the hallmarks of digital transformation has been the market’s rapid transition to the cloud, from applications and services to complete infrastructures. But a growing number of organizations have […]
Is a Cloud-native Strategy Right for You?
A cloud-native approach offers an agile environment enabling organizations to meet ever-increasing customer demands and expectations. This allows companies to grow a product, service, or idea and deploy all these things as quickly as business plans change. Delivering applications at breakneck speed is routine for new-age companies, including Amazon, which releases new code every 11.6 seconds. It […]
Cloudy with a Chance of Threats
Securing multiple clouds can be very complex. What’s needed is an integrated approach that is dynamic and flexible, and able to keep pace with cloud workloads and applications as they expand. The agility and benefits of cloud computing are undeniable. Forrester predicts that the total global public cloud market will be $178 billion in 2018, […]
Seven best practices for Continuous Monitoring with Azure Monitor
Whether you are a developer, site reliability engineer, IT Ops specialist, program manager, or a DevOps practitioner monitoring is something you definitely care about! With modern applications evolving from an on-premises world to becoming more hybrid or microservices based, there is also a need to evolve skill sets and adopt some best practices for a […]