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Cloud is More Than a Data Center: The On-Premise IT Roundtable

August 15, 2017 by Rich Stroffolino Leave a Comment

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With all the hyperbolic claims of what the cloud can do for IT, what the cloud actually means gets lost in the process. The roundtable looks at what cloud actually means in the modern enterprise. This includes the changes in workflows that need to happen to successfully migrate to the cloud. They go on to frame the cloud’s influences historically within other industries.

Cloud onRamp – Making The Cloud More Local For Your Users

July 26, 2017 by Tom Hollingsworth Leave a Comment

As business moves to the cloud to embrace applications and infrastructure offerings, how can network administrators continue to ensure that the network performs at a level acceptable to users? Viptela Cloud onRamp offers some insights.

Migrating to Healthcare Cloud Apps With Acadia and Viptela

June 5, 2017 by Tom Hollingsworth Leave a Comment

What happens when your software provider forces you to move to the cloud? Read on to find out how Viptela helped Acadia Healthcare solve their cloud dilemma.

Microsoft Opening Data Centers in Africa

May 18, 2017 by Rich Stroffolino Leave a Comment

When Amazon announced they were opening an AWS region in Sweden, I asked where they were going to expand next. If you look at their map, there’s a continent shaped hole. Amazon didn’t take the hint, but Microsoft seems to be onboard. The company announced they will be opening up data centers in Cape Town and Johannesburg, starting in 2018.

CapEx on Cloud up 22% in 2016

April 10, 2017 by Rich Stroffolino Leave a Comment

The Wall Street Journal formally reported something most of us know implicitly, the big players in the cloud are investing heavily in it. Still it’s impressive to see the hard numbers. In 2016, Microsoft, Google, and (of course) Amazon invested over $31.54 billion in capital expenditures and leases. If you like more granular numbers, that works out to $1,000 per second.

Cloud Migration Mitigation with Velostrata

December 22, 2016 by Rich Stroffolino 1 Comment

There is some perception that if you knew you were going to start a large enterprise today, you’d just use the cloud. Unencumbered by hardware commitments, legacy applications, and training expenses, the appeal of a cloud centric strategy from startup are easy to enumerate. This does little to make things clearer to existing enterprises. That’s where Velostrata comes in.

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