Cloud

Data Management as a Service (DMaaS) is a new IT term used to describe cloud-based solutions for managing data from different sources on one central platform. The “as-a-service” component describes the pay-per-usage model that DMaaS platforms use. In this post, I will explain how Data Management as a Service works and why it can make…

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.

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.

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.

In this introductory article, Aidan Finn explains what Microsoft Azure is and isn’t, along with key features of the service.

Amazon recently announced that a serverless version of their Aurora MySQL database product is now generally available.

In this post, I’ll detail five essential principles for successful cloud adoption. Note that while I am biased towards Microsoft Azure, these essentials are the same for cloud projects targeting Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and so on. Cloud adoption experience I have had the opportunity to work with public and private sector clients…

As we head into the new year, here are the hybrid cloud trends that we expect to see in 2019.