Reading Time-approximately: 8 minutesReady to move your on-premises apps to the cloud? From rehosting vs. redesigning to testing and monitoring, follow these key steps for a successful cloud migration. By Stephen J. Bigelow Businesses migrate workloads to the cloud for a variety of reasons. The public cloud is far more scalable than most on-premises data centers — its extensive array of resources, services
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesCost savings is one of the main reasons that companies decide to migrate to a cloud environment. Cloud computing can offer organizations potential financial advantages in a few ways; however, it’s important to understand the full implications of cloud pricing, and how it can affect companies. By Linda Rosencrance How Do Providers Determine Cloud Costs? The main factors cloud service providers
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesIDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) is an electronic interface standard that defines the connection between a bus on a computer’s motherboard and the computer’s disk storage devices. By Robert Sheldon and Sonia Lelii The IDE interface was originally based on the IBM PC Industry Standard Architecture 16-bit bus standard, but it has since been implemented in computers that use other bus standards. In November 1990, the American National Standards
Reading Time-approximately: 7 minutesWhy choose between public cloud and private systems when you can have both? With hybrid cloud, enterprises can address workload requirements, business demands and budgetary needs. By Stephen J. Bigelow Organizations are migrating workloads to the public cloud, as well as implementing private clouds in-house. As these forms of cloud computing take hold, large and small businesses are focused on
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesRapid cloud adoption during the pandemic has increased the attack surface and heightened the risk of misconfiguring services, leaving organisations more vulnerable to cyber attacks. By Sebastian Klovig Skelton Every organisation deploying Amazon Web Services (AWS) has experienced at least one security incident in its public cloud environment over the past year, with businesses’ rapid move to the cloud making
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesFor organizations migrating to the cloud, we’ve compiled a list of the top strategies to use to ensure they’re saving on costs along the way. By John Burke Most enterprises are still migrating workloads from data centers to the cloud. Although saving money is generally not the driving force for such migrations, it doesn’t hurt if money is saved along
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesThere are three major cloud service models: software as a service (SaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS). By Linda Rosencrance There are three major cloud service models: software as a service (SaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS). Cloud service pricing models are categorized into pay per use, subscription-based
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesEven if you already moved a few workloads to the cloud, it’s never too early to start looking at where you are going and never too late to make a change. See if IaaS or SaaS is the right service model for your organization. By Brian Kirsch Once you decide to move to the cloud, the next step is determining
Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesLearn how load balancing in the cloud differs from a traditional network traffic distribution, and explore services available from AWS, Google and Microsoft. By Stephen J. Bigelow To understand the value and behavior of load balancing, consider a visit to your local bank. If only one teller is available, every customer must rely on the services of that one teller,
Reading Time-approximately: 9 minutesIntegration platform as a service (iPaaS) is a set of automated tools that integrate software applications that are deployed in different environments. By Fred Churchville and Stephen J. Bigelow Large businesses that run enterprise-level systems often use iPaaS to integrate applications and data that live on premises and in both public and private clouds. Typically, an iPaaS platform provides pre-built
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