By conventional measures, the cloud-first transformation Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) executed would have to be labeled a success. After all, we shrunk our data center footprint from nearly 500 to just four, took $2 billion in costs out of the business, and migrated 90 percent of our apps to a combination of PaaS, SaaS and […]
Hybrid Cloud
Why You Need an Enterprise Cloud Managed Service Provider
As enterprises formulate plans for their future IT needs, one trend is clear: cloud will be front and center. According to Gartner, the worldwide public cloud services market is projected to grow 21% in 2018 to total $186.4 billion, up from $153.5 billion in 2017, with the largest chunk of the revenue making its way […]
Hybrid Cloud vs. Multi-cloud: What’s the Difference, and Why Does It Matter?
Although it’s been a long road, enterprise IT is finally achieving at least a general awareness of the benefits of cloud computing. While a picture of cloud is emerging in their thinking and strategic planning, the path between the “here and now” and the rosy cloud future tends to be murky. These companies’ future cloud […]
3 Tips to Create a Starring Role for Public Cloud in Your Hybrid IT
Public cloud adoption by enterprises has been growing and accelerating at an impressive rate over the last three to four years. But the growth isn’t evenly distributed. Some geographies are much further ahead than others. Industries vary in their cloud adoption, too. If you’re in a media or tech business, there’s a good chance you’ve […]
Multi-Cloud vs Hybrid Cloud: What’s the Difference?
We discuss the difference between hybrid cloud and multi-cloud. Hybrid is anything that’s not just one cloud provider, which includes multi-cloud. Multi-cloud is a strategy where some workloads are running on one cloud, some on another. One trend we see is that big enterprises are splitting workloads more and more between at least two major […]
The State of OpenStack and Azure Stack
We discuss the state of OpenStack and where it will go in the next few years. 16% of all OpenStack deployments are currently in the telecommunications carrier segment. Openstack will continue to do well in that category because they are willing to put up with the complexity that others are not. However, growth is not […]