I frequently consult with customers comparing hyperscale public cloud platforms like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google for their data and applications. The workloads they want to evaluate typically fit into one of three categories: A lift-and-shift of virtual or physical workloads into public cloud A partial or full refactoring/modernization of an on-premises…
In an IDG survey conducted for CDW’s “The Modern IT Infrastructure Insight Report,” 58 percent of IT professionals said it’s challenging to align their departmental strategies with corporate goals. Among organizations with extensive hybrid IT environments, that perception jumps to 68 percent. IT pros have good reason to take on this challenge, because certain high-level…
Microsoft Azure adoption grew nearly 35 percent over the past year, to 58 percent of the enterprises surveyed in the “RightScale 2018 State of the Cloud Report.” That’s good news for companies considering whether and how to migrate to Azure. They have plenty of opportunities to learn from real-world examples. At CDW, the most common…
I had the pleasure of visiting with customers and partners at the VeeamON 2018 conference in Chicago earlier this month. This event brought together data protection professionals to share knowledge and discuss backup and high-availability solutions from Veeam. The conference topics reflected the growth of Veeam from a straightforward backup solution into a full-fledged high-availability…
I read a comic today about a data center support technician who was going to put a fog machine in his lab, and when people walked in he could declare, “Welcome to the cloud!” He laughed, his friends laughed and I died a little inside as I read it. The cloud is still viewed as…
No doubt you’ve heard that the amount of data being generated and stored is growing. And everywhere we look, we are continually reminded of the value of our data. But as the amount of data grows, are IT organizations realizing the value and unlocking its full potential? Software vendors in the data protection space are…
