Cloud Computing

Amazon announced last week the availability of local clusters for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) on AWS Outposts. Amazon EKS is a managed Kubernetes service that enables you to use the open-source container orchestration platform on AWS and on-premises data centers. As for AWS Outposts, it’s a family of on-premises fully managed solutions that deliver a hybrid Amazon…

Instead of performing your backup with your centralized on-premises IT infrastructure, BaaS connects your protected systems to a public cloud managed by the cloud provider or MSP.

DRaaS has steadily become a more popular option to protect your critical services and applications. A Gartner survey in 2019 showed that businesses are now protecting an average of 255 virtualized x86 instances.

Most businesses have adopted a hybrid cloud strategy in which they have stretched several key IT elements into the cloud for more efficient operations, flexibility, and potential cost savings. Let’s look at five of the most important ways that the hybrid cloud has changed IT.

While the security and redundancy provided with hybrid cloud setups is clearly documented, it’s important to keep these risk-factors in mind as you design your new environment.

As businesses have been moving along the path toward modernization and digital transformation, there’s no doubt that they have been adopting the hybrid cloud in greater numbers.

As you begin to implement your organization’s 2017 tech strategy, here are the top five most interesting things that are going on in the world of Hybrid Cloud with Microsoft Azure that you should consider.

Seamlessly extending your local storage to the cloud is what hybrid cloud storage appliances offer. Sometimes these hybrid cloud storage options are extensions to local storage systems or sometimes they are specifically designed for hybrid cloud storage.

This past July 2019, VMware added Google to their list of hybrid cloud partners that enable you to run vSphere Cloud Foundation in the public cloud. VMware has previously announced similar partnerships with Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure.

Hybrid cloud availability can be difficult because most businesses are running a mixture of many different technologies that all need to be available in order to support their business-critical applications. Availability in the hybrid cloud needs to begin at the design phase of your application infrastructure.