Don’t Give Up Access to Your SaaS Data
Software as a Service (SaaS) hands responsibility for the application and data to the SaaS vendor, but it’s still your data, and you may have things you want to do with it. How can you get access [...]
Vendor Lock-in Isn’t a Reason to Avoid Cloud
A lot of the concerns businesses have about cloud disappear when you examine the facts more closely. For example, worries about cloud security kept many businesses from using the cloud [...]
Keep an Eye on Your Cloud with Effective Monitoring
One of the most important aspects of cloud planning is developing a monitoring strategy. Using the vendor’s monitoring tools is adequate when a business first shifts to the cloud but is rarely [...]
How Much Control Do You Have to Give Up to Use Cloud?
By now, everyone knows the reasons for using cloud: reduced costs, reduced support, increased reliability, increased scalability, increased agility. Of the reasons not to use cloud, security [...]
The More Complex Your Clouds, the Bigger the Management Challenges
The good old days were a lot simpler than modern times. There was one big machine, and it lived in the data center. Then things became more complicated, with smaller machines in different places [...]
Tackling the Challenges of Managing a Multi-Cloud Environment
If your strategy requires multi-cloud, you need a strategy for multi-cloud management. If you ended up with multi-cloud without a strategy, you need a strategy for multi-cloud management even [...]
Every Cloud Model Requires You to Take Actions to Secure Your Systems
Incorporating cloud into your IT strategy means incorporating cloud security into your IT security strategy. Security in the cloud is a shared responsibility between your team and your cloud [...]
Should You Switch to Serverless Computing in the Cloud? It Depends.
One of the promised (and real) benefits of cloud is the reduced demand on IT teams to perform routine maintenance and support processes. This is because the cloud provider assumes responsibility [...]
Don’t Rush the Decision to Repatriate from the Cloud
Some studies have suggested that as many as 85 percent of businesses are considering repatriating workloads to the data center from the cloud. This highlights one of the most important factors [...]
To Avoid Big Cloud Bills, You Need a Comprehensive Cloud Strategy
Cloud offers its users the ongoing opportunity to modify architectures and usage patterns, providing businesses the means to optimize both cloud utilization and cloud spending. Challenges to [...]
