Chris Gibes

Multicloud environments tend to grow organically, less by design and more because organizations spin up resources quickly to meet specific needs without an overarching strategy. When this happens, governance may fall by the wayside. Business and IT leaders generally know they’ve reached this point because they’ll start to see three types of issues. First, many…

[sayit]— Written by Chris Gibes, Tim Keating and Mark Yorko Before your organization gets too far into a multicloud environment — using some combination of hyperscale providers such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform, along with private clouds — it’s wise to develop a management strategy. Proper multicloud management supports long-term…

— Written by Chris Gibes, Tim Keating and Mark Yorko. As organizations build multicloud environments, it’s important that they think strategically about guiding principles and capabilities. Multicloud may involve any combination of the major hyperscale public cloud platforms — Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform — or a hybrid that also includes…

[sayit]Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is the fastest-growing category in data center infrastructure. The reasons for this are clear: This technology eliminates silos, simplifies management and enables scalability — three benefits that organizations need to support their digital transformation initiatives. Recently, much of the conversation about digital transformation has focused on containerization and application modernization. But I…

Many of the discussions I hear about data center modernization involve massive enterprises that focus on efforts such as incorporating automation throughout their data centers, containerizing applications for cross-environment portability and moving to a more agile app development process. Don’t get me wrong; all of these use cases are enormously valuable — for the right…

“A place for everything, and everything in its place." You’ve probably heard this familiar idiom encouraging tidiness. It also sums up the basic concept of hybrid storage. Enterprises seeking better ways to manage and organize their data, and the associated costs, can find new flexibility in hybrid solutions, which extend on-premises arrays into a hyperscale…

Data is your organization’s lifeblood. Can you afford to entrust it to an outsider? It’s a reasonable question, one that just about every enterprise asks when considering Software as a Service (SaaS) backup. But I believe a better question is, can you afford not to? Here’s why. For starters, a SaaS solution for backup eliminates…