Finops can show where all your cloud spending goes, but sometimes penny-wise is pound-foolish. Account for human costs and monitor all your clouds.
Many IT mistakes track back to insufficient planning and rushing to a physical architecture. Let’s go back to the basics.
Don’t look now, but criminals are using public cloud services. 'Cloud cop' could be a real opportunity for those interested in both law enforcement and cloud.
Designing and deploying a single cloud architecture may not prepare you to take on a multicloud, especially where security and cost optimization are concerned.
Manual cloud security often leads to a major breach. Helping leadership understand the risks can make the case for funding to do it right.
Prepare for battle in the conference room. A good cloud finops program should review cloud solution architectures to reduce cost and optimize cloud value.
Where are the savings enterprises expected ? A finops program that monitors cloud spending, creates accountability, and optimizes cloud resources will usually solve the problem.
Multicloud complexity is moving from a theoretical cloud architecture problem to a financial one, and businesses are suddenly searching for solutions.
In most cases, cloud computing is greener than traditional data centers. Just how green depends on the details of each individual deployment.
A lot of hype is swirling around the new ‘metacloud’ or ‘supercloud’ buzzword. Let’s just focus on what should go into a cross-cloud technology stack.
IT is now seen as integral to business rather than a cost center ripe for layoffs. Technology, people, and culture are worth protecting during economic contractions.
AI/ML model training and knowledge-based storage and processing are more costly on a cloud than many thought, and prices for compute and storage equipment have fallen.
Too many people are designing cloud architecture that is cool but too complex. The most successful architects use the KISS concept and keep it simple, stupid!
The people deploying multicloud will tell you that 'security is a nightmare.' Cross-cloud abstraction and automation of security services is the right solution.
Using application modernization to pursue cloud-native development at all costs or to gain portability and avoid vendor lock-in are expensive decisions.
Few enterprises can effectively leverage their data inside or outside of the cloud, and a new study says that's still the case. It's time to make a plan.
My last post about the emerging ‘metacloud’ or ‘supercloud’ struck a nerve. Here’s a follow-up to your comments and questions about the future of cloud-based systems.
Supercloud? Metacloud? The race is on to name the emerging layer of abstraction and automation that will remove the complexity of multicloud.
Many businesses will remain on the digital enablement path despite economic speed bumps. But the constraints of today's technology and the skills shortage remain.
Big news: Money spent on public clouds will overtake funds for traditional data center hardware for the first time. It's time to both celebrate and be concerned.
With thousands of people looking for a first cloud computing job or attempting to upgrade their career, here are some ways to make a great impression.
Cloud architects may think they understand abstraction, orchestration, and automation, but these fundamental concepts are still very relevant to cloud computing.
Most of us picture cloud security threats as bad actors in some hostile country. More often, it’s you and your coworkers.
Moving legacy applications to the cloud to leverage modern security and data, containers, microservices, and portability usually makes things worse. Here’s why.
The public cloud has better security than your data center, so you're likely to see more attacks on legacy systems to gain access to cloud data. Here’s how to fight back.
Despite conflicting analyst opinions, we could be in a slowdown for application and data migration to public clouds. Here are 3 reasons I see.
Complexity is a natural byproduct of a highly heterogeneous and distributed architecture. Now we better understand its impact.
As hardware prices continue to plunge, some applications and data could return to enterprise data centers. Perhaps that’s a good thing.
A new survey shows what most of us already know: Cloud solutions are focused on serverless and containers. Know the good and bad of this popular combo.
Multicloud is the direction many enterprises are heading, but legacy systems need to be part of the road map.
Now that AI is cheap and widely available, we often leverage it too often and for the wrong reason. Here's where cloud-based AI provides the most value.
Multicloud is everywhere, but the complexity, risks, and costs are becoming big concerns. Your best bet is to plan carefully and fix problems before you migrate.
'Design by committee' is a pejorative term and a punchline for many jokes, but it’s still seeing a comeback, and that’s scary.
Before you get excited about proactive cloudops tools, know their limitations, especially if you're using a cloud service provider.
If cloudops isn't going well, perhaps important planning is being overlooked or left until too late in the process.
The agility and speed to market that cloud computing offers don't just happen. Systems need to be architected to easily accommodate change.
Even with finops and other monitoring and governance tools, finding cloud's true ROI isn't easy. Start with the metrics of success for your specific situation.
Autoscaling in the cloud can ensure organizations always have resources, but sometimes it's a lazy and expensive decision.
To optimize your multicloud architecture, know what your business specifically needs, and avoid the trap of 'vendor think.'
As enterprises work on their green cred, cloud providers step up to provide more green power. Doing good for the planet also comes with doing well in the market.
It’s a good time to understand how 5G impacts cloud computing. Specific use cases will benefit the most, but for many, it won't make much difference.
As so many enterprises move to multicloud, the debate continues about its validity as an architectural solution, especially regarding complexity and lock-in.
Set up a cloud business office, automate where possible, and provide visibility into your cloud agreements.
New best practices support defining cloud solutions from the outside in to take advantage of the strengths of cloud computing.
Interest is growing in cloud computing’s ability to reduce carbon, but the ‘green cloud’ argument is not as clear as many believe.
As the cost and efficiency of traditional on-premises solutions become more attractive, compare the two options carefully to find the best one.
As edge computing becomes more widespread, many are experiencing unexpected operational challenges.
Data everywhere may be the future of cloud-native and edge computing deployments, but the possibilities come with expense and management issues.
Fine-tune your career satisfaction with positions that offer appreciation, growth opportunities, work flexibility, and money, too.
Governance can save you from bankruptcy after a data breach or keep day-to-day costs from spinning out of control. It pays to understand it.