The retirement of Technical Debt has never been more relevant. The great recession, and, more recently, the COVID-19 pandemic have significantly dampened the ability and willingness of enterprises to address an ever-growing amount of Technical Debt. Too often,...
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DRaaS: Closing the Gaps in Your Disaster Recovery Plans
The pandemic triggered broad changes in the way businesses operate. In the process, it also exposed serious gaps in disaster recovery (DR) planning. Cloud-based DR-as-a-Service (DRaaS) solutions can close those gaps and provide improved protection for your essential...
Finding Peace in Cloud Migrations
“You’ll be on cloud nine!” In the hills of eastern Kentucky, literary idioms are a huge part of the language. Examples like “You’re barking up the wrong tree”, “eating high on the hog”, and “hill of beans” can be heard regularly. In those same hills I grew up,...
App Modernization Is Key to Successful Cloud Migration
Over the past year, rapid changes in the technology landscape have made software modernization an imperative for organizations of all sizes. As organizations accelerated the movement of legacy applications to the cloud to support work-from-home operations, many...
Cloud as IT Oxygen: 2021 Predictions
I often use the expression "Cloud as IT Oxygen" - but, what do I mean by such an expression? The global catastrophe of the COVID-19 pandemic has changed our world and unleashed a set of forces driving change across all areas of human...
Can the Cloud Save Our Economy?
I believe the term “unprecedented” has been said more times in the last 12 months than in the last 35 years (likely longer). Of course, the pandemic is top of the list when using this word, but things like social unrest, organized cybercrime, polarizing...
Work from Home and the SaaS Imperative
There is a reason why many organizations have been able to, with relative ease, achieve the transition to a work from home (WFH) reality in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic: Many of the technologies that enterprises have used traditionally benefit from simpler...
Netezza – How Easy Do We Have It?
When you read my earlier blog, “Netezza is making a comeback”, from this blog series, did you think to yourself, “Where did it go? I never left.” If you have ever had a chance to use Netezza in your data estate for warehousing, high-performance INZA push down...