Load balancing of application traffic has been around for a long time. But, as more organisations move to the private and public cloud, it’s undergoing significant changes. Let’s look at some of the important considerations of this evolving technology. By Ronald Sens, EMEA Director, A10 Networks.
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It’s no secret that technology is the fundamental driving force in creating scientific discoveries, powering financial innovation, improving healthcare - and developing the latest in product design. We also know that the application of information technology is in no way slowing down. By Darren Watkins, managing director for VIRTUS Data Centres.
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Disaster recovery and back up in the cloud have changed almost beyond recognition since iland started offering services 11 years ago. The business landscape is more complex, cloud adoption has gone mainstream and the regulatory environment bears little resemblance to what it looked like a decade ago. By Sam Woodcock, EMEA Director of Solutions Architecture, iland.
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A broad spectrum of High-Performance Computing (HPC) users, whether they be research institutes, emerging entrepreneurs or corporate enterprises, recognise how the power and efficiency of their HPC applications can accelerate their computationally intensive workloads, providing research breakthroughs and unlocking competitive commercial advantages. By Spencer Lamb, director of research, Verne Global.
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When choosing a cloud provider, you need to know exactly what you are signing up for to avoid problems in the future. Once you have migrated, you are stuck with what the provider gives you unless you undertake another migration, which is likely to be time consuming and risky. The much vaunted ‘portability’ of cloud services between providers is not yet proven, particularly for complex applications, and it is not in the provider’s interests to make it easy. By Richard Blanford, managing director, Fordway.
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There has been a lot of talk in the first half of 2018 around how cloud is being adopted for mission critical applications and becoming mainstream. Right now, the impact of cloud services, cloud technologies and practices for organisations is rapidly accelerating as we enter the next wave of cloud adoption. To this point, analysts at Forrester predict that the public cloud market will grow by 22 percent in 2018, to $178 billion. This momentum is being driven by companies that recognise the potential benefits of a cloud-based infrastructure i.e. lower operational costs, increased speed of deployment and greater business flexibility. By Ronald Sens, EMEA Director, A10 Networks.
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The key challenges that Managed Service Providers are facing in a heavily commoditised market and the ways in which they can go above and beyond to differentiate themselves and excel in customer experience. By Edmund Cartwright, Sales & Marketing Director at Highlight.
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As an avid supporter of football, or soccer if you live across the Atlantic Ocean, it was fun watching Chelsea recently triumph over Burnley FC with a 4-0 win, securing 3rd position in the league table. By Brad Parks, Vice President of Business Development at Morpheus Data.
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Garry McCracken, Vice President of Technology at WinMagic examines the findings of recent research which suggest compliance woes are putting the brakes on cloud computing’s onslaught.
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Although organizations are moving more applications and services into the cloud, certain workloads still require the control, reliability and security of on-premises infrastructure. Hyper-convergence has emerged as a key technology for effectively balancing cloud and on-premises resources. By Marcus Doran – VP & GM at Rahi Systems, Europe.
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Cloud computing offers flexibility and elasticity, and with the rapid growth of data it is no surprise that most organisations today utilise cloud services in some form or another. By Gary Watson, Founder and CTO at Nexsan.
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So, Apple beat Alphabet and Microsoft to being the first trillion dollar company. Amazon and Microsoft are hot on Apple's heels, thanks to revenues which exceeded $100bn for the first time in fiscal year 2018 primarily thanks to cloud computing. Most of us can only dream of such success, but longer terms will other businesses benefit too?By Ronan David, SVP Strategy at EfficientIP.
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By Richard Latham, principal consultant at KCOM.
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Dealing with data centre demand, by Ulf Achenbach, Director of Construction at e-shelter.
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By Sean Roberts, GM Microsoft Cloud Services at Ensono.
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