Category: Cloud Industry Topics

Use your cloud migration to leave bad practices on-premises

  • Posted on: October 31, 2023
  • Author: Sarah Allen
Even when it’s a “lift-and-shift” of your legacy apps Changing environments in order to change behavior is widely studied as an effective approach, as intuitive as it seems. It makes sense then that changing the environment of your business IT operation from an on-premises datacenter to the cloud can serve as the catalyst for improving

Harnessing data in legacy systems for your GenAI strategy

  • Posted on: September 27, 2023
  • Author: Rahul Tripathi
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its latest evolution Generative AI (GenAI) are not only the hottest buzzwords in technology, but also likely the most transformational value drivers for businesses and people. We felt the same way for technology evolutions in mobile, social and cloud, which are now mainstream in society and the workplace. Hence, every business
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The Rise of the Super Cloud and What it Means for Specialized Workloads

  • Posted on: September 12, 2023
  • Author: Tony Perez
A pragmatic approach to including “stubborn” legacy or specialty applications into an evolving cloud ecosystem. First came “the cloud,” and IT embraced and consumed it. For many companies, this evolved into hybrid-cloud due to business requirements such as meeting regulatory and data sovereignty requirements, leveraging paid-for on-premises technology investments, and addressing requirements for low latency,

AI, “A Stack of Laptops” and the interesting connection between the two

  • Posted on: August 24, 2023
  • Author: Mike Neil
Recently, I attended an event about the use of AI with a company’s cloud-based file sharing and collaboration product. While the event was informative and inspiring, it was a conversation I had while at the event that stuck with me. The conversation was with the CTO of a Seattle-based engineering firm. What started out as

Leveraging the cloud to accelerate mergers, acquisitions, divestitures

  • Posted on: June 5, 2023
  • Author: Tony Perez
Companies engage in mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures. In most cases, a lengthy due diligence process happens. At some point in the process, “technological compatibility” between the impacted organizations is considered.  What happens when the companies merging have entirely different IT architectures?  Consider this fictional scenario: Company “BlueCascade” divests a subsidiary business unit called “AquaPure.” Company

How to “Float” on the Multi-Cloud

  • Posted on: April 26, 2023
  • Author: Tony Perez
There is a lot of talk about “multi-cloud,” but trying to achieve that level of cloud diversity might be challenging for many organizations. If you are starting out in the cloud, instead of building cloud-specific expertise across multiple cloud providers, try to “float” across multiple clouds as much as possible. Here is how. First off,
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Demystifying SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS

  • Posted on: March 8, 2023
  • Author: Skytap
The technology industry is loaded with jargon. Often a result of trying to simplify complex concepts, the abbreviations, buzzwords, and blurred lines can confuse even tech veterans, let alone those new to enterprise tech. So, in hopes of adding some clarity to the conversation, we’ve written a high-level overview that defines the most popular cloud

A Tale of Two Cloud Transformations

  • Posted on: February 14, 2023
  • Author: Rahul Tripathi
Being engaged in the growth of cloud infrastructure for over a decade, I got to see and live through successes and failures of various cloud transformation journeys. Interestingly, two of them exemplify the spectrum of “pie in the sky” disappointment to “bang for the buck” impact. Both are large multi-billion dollar enterprises in the industrial
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Southwest needs a lift-and-shift to the multi-cloud, then refactor.

  • Posted on: January 10, 2023
  • Author: Tony Perez
Most of us have heard about the crisis Southwest Airlines had over the holidays. Most articles cite “problems related to legacy systems…” and “outdated scheduling software called SkySolver.” Though Southwest received a lot of attention from this incident and has offered affected customers loyalty points for the resulting disruptions, the legacy software problems encountered by

Don’t have a Cloud Strategy? You should still migrate one app to the Cloud

  • Posted on: November 15, 2022
  • Author: Tony Perez
“Cloud computing is in its beginning stages and will only continue to grow,” Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky told CNBC’s Jim Cramer on June 28th, 2022. All organizations should be prepared for the ongoing growth of cloud computing. Even if your organization currently doesn’t have a comprehensive cloud strategy, regardless of the reason, there is

“My application can’t be moved to the cloud!”

  • Posted on: August 16, 2022
  • Author: Tony Perez
My company provides the ability to host IBM Power AIX and IBMi application workloads in the cloud. We partner with two of the world’s largest technology companies to provide this service. During my daily activities as a Cloud Solutions Architect (aka Pre-Sales Engineer), I listen to many customers tell us about their “hopes and dreams”