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Cloud is no longer an experiment. It’s now a core element of most business’s information technology architecture. That means you can’t focus on single deployments anymore; you need to develop a [...]

There’s never enough money in the budget to do everything you want with technology; that’s why it’s so important to get as much value as you can for the money you do have. Cloud offers a [...]

The biggest mistake you can make when planning your cloud migration is thinking too small. Focusing on individual workloads and data sets limits your vision and will limit your success. For a [...]

In order to succeed with your cloud migration, you need to direct your attention and effort in the right places. These mistakes in focus can make your migration fail: Focusing solely on money [...]

Don’t let shiny new security tools lead you to discard older, effective methods. Any sound information security strategy should combine both old and new security tools to provide a comprehensive, [...]

Is using cloud still a decision that you have to make, or is it business-as-usual by now? While statistics show the majority of businesses are using cloud, with many using multiple cloud [...]

Even if you’ve moved all your applications and data into the cloud, you still need a disaster recovery strategy. The cloud vendor can have an outage; you can experience a network problem that [...]

No matter the level of support your cloud provider offers, you still need to monitor your cloud systems.  That’s the only way you can know that your instances and applications are up, whether [...]

Cloud is a fundamental change in how your data center operates, and it fundamentally changes the responsibilities of your data center staff. Planning for these changes should be part of your [...]

When you don’t keep track of your spending, little expenses can total up into big expenses that have a long-term impact on your finances. This is as true for cloud spending as it is for your [...]