Do your Cloud provider due diligence
Whether or not we give it much explicit thought, we all do at least some due diligence every time we buy something. When it comes to Cloud services, due diligence ought to be done explicitly and with...
View ArticleCloud Computing best practice: Always monitor your Cloud services
In order to know whether your Cloud provider is meeting the performance and availability parameters set out in your service-level agreement (SLA), you have to be able to monitor your Cloud services....
View ArticleWhen IT Performance Monitoring Gets a “Big Data” Boost
No doubt you’ve heard about “big data.” It sounds intimidating, invasive, and, well, way too big. But don’t be fooled — “big data” is going to save your IT infrastructure. The first thing you need to...
View ArticleWhat to Look For in IT Operations Analytics Capabilities
In my last post, I discussed how IT operations analytics can transform the masses of IT performance data into insight that provides broad, cross-tier network and infrastructure visibility so that …...
View ArticlePlanning Your Hybrid Cloud: 6 Key Steps (in 2 parts)
By some accounts, better than 50% of organizations are now deploying hybrid clouds — and for some very good reasons: Improved security, because sensitive data can remain behind your private cloud...
View ArticlePlanning Your Hybrid Cloud: 6 Key Steps (part 2)
In my last post I focused on the first two steps in planning for a hybrid cloud: Making sure your IT infrastructure is “cloudified” and assessing your current environment and workloads. In this post,...
View ArticleThe BYOD Gap
What’s the state of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) in your organization? When I ask this of our customers I get replies aligning with industry research and other anecdotal evidence pointing to what I...
View Article3 Steps to Closing the BYOD Gap
In my last post, I discussed the gap between business units that enthusiastically embrace BYOD and IT departments, where BYOD is regarded with more hesitation. Yet it’s clear: BYOD is not only here to...
View ArticlePlanning for 4 Key 2015 Technology Challenges
Four technologies will very likely impact your business in 2015 — whether or not you explicitly consider them in your planning. Which is to say, ignore them at your peril: 1. Employees want their BYOD...
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