Cloud migration

First Steps into Cloud Migration

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Whether you are planning to migrate a single critical application, or a major portion of your infrastructure, thorough research and a mindful approach are needed before transitioning to the cloud. Many IT groups have struggled moving key enterprise applications to the public cloud, learning from their mistakes, they used these lessons learned for greater success in subsequent migrations.

If you’re one of the many thinking of moving your IT infrastructure to the public cloud or have committed to the idea, but are struggling how to go about it, you don’t want to be the one caught trying to re-create the wheel only to fail miserably. Using the lessons learned from those that have gone before you, helps to maximize your chances of a successful cloud migration on the first attempt. If done right some of the benefits to be realized are reduced cost, streamlined day-to-day operations, IT team expansion, flexibility, and scalability, just to name a few.

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Best Practices for Containers

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As more enterprise IT operations organizations move to container technology, IT administrators are having to morph into DevOps roles to deal with the container orchestration systems within IT production. These include systems like Docker Swarm, Apache Mesos, and Google Kubernetes, as well as a handful of lesser known players. Container technology has become a reliable way to quickly package, deploy and run application workloads without the need for concern of the physical underlying hardware or operating systems.

Just as important as the containers themselves is the container orchestration technology. These products allow you to start and stop containers through scheduling. They also allow you to scale container usage through managed container clusters. Enterprise data centers have come to expect 99.99% uptime, and introducing new technologies puts a lot of pressure on those individuals expected to run them.

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Cloud Migration Strategies for SMBs

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It is now widely accepted that Cloud computing can help small and midsize businesses (SMBs) lower operating expenses and improve application performance – and the public clouds are helping small businesses to either replace or supplement their on-premises IT needs. While having a sound migration strategy in place is crucial, equally important is to ensure…