6 Imperatives to Securing Your Cloud Infrastructure

Companies across industries are increasingly shifting to the cloud to take advantage of greater scalability and agility, faster deployment and cost savings. The growth of cloud computing continues to accelerate, offering more solutions with added feat… Continue reading 6 Imperatives to Securing Your Cloud Infrastructure

Dell’s long game is in hybrid and private clouds

When Dell voted to buy back the VMware tracking stock and go public again this morning, you had to be wondering what exactly the strategy was behind these moves. While it’s clearly about gaining financial flexibility, the $67 billion EMC deal has always been about setting the company up for a hybrid and private cloud […] Continue reading Dell’s long game is in hybrid and private clouds

Cloud Migration Checklist for Application and Data Security

In the final post of our series on cloud migration, we’ve put together a list of strategic and immediate considerations as you plan to migrate your business to the cloud. From a high-altitude viewpoint, cloud security is based on a model of &#822… Continue reading Cloud Migration Checklist for Application and Data Security

Cloud Migration: Technical and Business Considerations

If you’re like many businesses, you’re moving applications into public and private cloud infrastructures. You’ve seen how the cloud’s agility, resiliency, and scalability drives business growth. Fortunately, rolling out new apps… Continue reading Cloud Migration: Technical and Business Considerations

Why Adobe’s Advertising Cloud is (mostly) a private cloud

 Adobe likes to talk about its public cloud partnerships with Microsoft and others, but it doesn’t often talk about its private cloud strategy. It’s no secret that there are plenty of good reasons for using a private data center and Adobe manages a few of these around the globe. For most businesses, opting for a private cloud comes down to cost, but for Adobe’s Advertising… Read More Continue reading Why Adobe’s Advertising Cloud is (mostly) a private cloud

IBM Cloud Private brings cloud native computing to your data center

 As companies search for ways to modernize their technology stacks, they struggle with managing the legacy software (and hardware) inside their own data centers. IBM introduced a new private cloud product today that is supposed to ease the transit… Continue reading IBM Cloud Private brings cloud native computing to your data center

Managed private cloud stacks trying to find their way in the enterprise

 For a long time, traditional IT resisted the cloud, but that has changed in recent years as companies have come to realize that they can’t survive without the agility, scalability and economics that only a public cloud approach can provide. Yet in spite of the clear advantages the public cloud brings, there are still many companies out there that resist it for a variety of… Read More Continue reading Managed private cloud stacks trying to find their way in the enterprise

Verizon sells its private cloud and managed hosting businesses to IBM

 Only a few days after announcing that it was selling 29 of its data centers to Equinix, Verizon today announced that it is selling its cloud and managed hosting business to IBM. The acquisition is expected to close later this year. This move pretty much puts an end to Verizon’s loftier ambitions in the cloud — an area it started pursuing in earnest back in 2011 when it acquired… Read More Continue reading Verizon sells its private cloud and managed hosting businesses to IBM