Judging from search engine traffic — and from the calls I receive — there’s some confusion out there about hybrid cloud and multicloud. In truth, both are completely viable models, with various organizations relying on each to achieve significant business benefits. But before IT and business leaders can decide which approach makes the most sense for them, they need to step back and ask themselves what outcomes they are trying to achieve.

The excitement of realizing the benefits of the cloud means that organizations sometimes skip the planning process and move right ahead to the implementation phase. But those who have dived headfirst into the cloud have sometimes found themselves backing out as fast as they jumped in when issues around performance, cost or security don’t work…

— Written by Troy Brick-Margelofsky, Brandon Jackson and Stephan Stelter Public cloud, just like private cloud, has advantages and disadvantages, depending on the circumstances in which it is used. That’s why almost every organization will gravitate toward some combination of cloud solutions that best achieves its business goals, performance expectations and requirements for security and…

Those of you have read part 1 and part 2 of this blog series already know all about the cloud migration framework — what it is, why it’s important and how to get started. This post will discuss the last piece of the puzzle: the migration. Migration Framework Key Steps for a Cloud Migration The…

In my last blog post, I discussed the importance of following a detailed framework when migrating to the cloud. By doing so, organizations ensure key areas are incorporated into their implementation and migration efforts remain consistent. This blog post dives deeper to discuss the data-gathering, analysis, dependencies and strategic roadmap phases of any successful framework….