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The Rising Growth of Hybrid Cloud By Andrea Knoblauch Now that we’ve had a few years of cloud adoption under our belts, I thought it was a good time to take a look at how some of the cloud models are performing.  Public cloud has it’s own great case study with Amazon AWS, and private clouds see strong supporters with forward-thinking IT teams.  But there is another model that is winning over IT teams, the hybrid cloud, and it has good reason to. With the rise of cloud models, we’ve heard a lot about the benefits of public and private clouds. Public clouds gave us the ability to leverage low-cost services to help organizations transition to cloud models through availability of services such as Amazon AWS. Private clouds were either built in-house to start taking advantage of the same type of technologies that make public clouds so attractive, but sadly the scale of e... (more)

Future Business Trends in Tech: Looking Forward to 2025 By @Stratustician | @CloudExpo #Cloud #BigData

Future Business Trends in Tech: Looking Forward to 2025 By Andrea Knoblauch When it comes to how trends like Big Data, mobility, cloud computing and social networking have impacted organizations, it’s clear that it has led to a large shift that has paved the way for a new market of startups who boldly embrace these trends and other organizations who are still struggling to keep up. But these trends have only started to pave the way for what we might see in the next 10 years, and the future is exciting. We’ve seen the impact the four tech mega trends - Big Data, Always-Connected M... (more)

Converged Infrastructure vs. Hyperconvergence By @Stratustician | @CloudExpo #Cloud

Converged Infrastructure vs. Hyperconvergence By Andrea Knoblauch While the idea of converged infrastructure isn’t that new, and we’ve seen some strong efforts from vendors over the last few years to drive more adoption, the uptake from enterprises has been met with some challenges.  In 2014, and now in 2015, organizations are not just looking to gain bigger returns on their cloud investments, but also looking to how new methodologies, such as converged cloud infrastructure and hyperconverged infrastructure that can help deliver new competitive advantages through services, appli... (more)

The Case for Disaster Recovery Services Beyond Business Continuity By @Stratustician | @CloudExpo #Cloud

The Case for Disaster Recovery Services Beyond Business Continuity By Andrea Knoblauch Disaster Recovery isn’t a new concept for IT folks. We’ve been backing up data for years to offsite locations, and used in-house data duplication in order to prevent the risks of losing data stores. But now that cloud adoption has increased, there have been some shifts in how traditional Disaster Recovery is being handled. First, we’re seeing increased adoption of cloud-based backup and disaster recovery. Gartner stated that between 2012 and 2016, one third of organizations are going to be look... (more)

Containerization, the Next Wave of Virtualization | @DevOpsSummit #Containers

Containerization, the Next Wave of Virtualization by Andrea Knoblauch When I started exploring virtualization, like many folks, I was in awe of how much efficiency came with moving physical servers into VMs. To this day, the number of success stories about improved usage, reduced overhead costs and increased functionality makes virtualization a solid business model for IT folks. Then I learned about Containerization and well, it takes efficiency to another level. The idea of virtualization isn’t new. You take a physical server, virtualize it, and run it alongside other virtualiz... (more)