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Five Tips for Protecting Cloud Resources from Internal Threats
New approaches are required to secure data in an age of networks without boundaries. Although traditional approaches to internal IT security have been rendered obsolete, many tried-and-true techniques...
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DevOps: How to Achieve Rapid Mobile App Development
When you are launching a mobile app, being able to update it quickly when things happen is imperative, as users can easily move on to another app if yours is not working at its full potential. When you...
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How to Prepare for the Next Cloud Outage
A big part of an IT manager's job is asking, "What if...?" As cloud services become more popular, disaster plans are updated to include contingencies for the moment when the company's cloud-hosted data...
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10 Big Data Myths Exploded
If a little bit of data is good, then a lot of data must be great, right? That's like saying if a cool breeze feels nice on a warm summer day, then a tornado will make you feel ecstatic.Perhaps a...
View ArticleWhen is it a Good Time to Implement DevOps?
When deciding to implement DevOps, you may not be sure when the best time to get started will be. Will other teams and individuals within your organization get on board immediately, or will it take...
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What Does the Future Hold for DBAs?
If any IT job can be considered secure, you would think it would be that of a database administrator. After all, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook forecasts an 11...
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Cloud and AI: A Work in Progress, with Unlimited Upside
Cloud computing and artificial intelligence: Two technologies that were made for each other. Well, not quite. To date, cloud-based AI remains a work in progress. The long-term forecast remains rosy as...
View ArticleImplementing Monitoring to Encourage DevOps Support
When you are looking to implement DevOps in your organization, one starting point that may help you gain support for implementation is to get a monitoring service up and running for your website, web...
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New Hybrid Cloud Approaches Teach Old Data Centers New Tricks
Data centers are evolving from walled-in, self-contained hardware and software systems into cloud gateways. The platforms companies relied on just a decade ago are now destined for computer museums. As...
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Cloud Compliance from A to Z
When it comes to regulatory compliance, some IT departments are in need of an attitude adjustment. Confirming your organization complies with rules governing the protection of sensitive data is no...
View ArticleTurducken, DevOps, and Unified Orchestration
A portmanteau is a blend of words where parts of various words are combined into something new. This time of year as we approach Thanksgiving here in the States we get to see my favorite example - the...
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What got you here, won't get you there
It’s been used as a hook a lot, I know… but it’s one of those pithy truisms that is sometimes too hard for us marketing types to resist. In this case, I thought it applicable to a number of items in...
View ArticleTaxicab Confessions from AWS re:Invent 2017
What’s better than a week in Vegas? Two weeks… maybe that’s 12 days too many but hard to say when you are surrounded by so much great content and so many fantastic people.I’m half-way through my Vegas...
View ArticleBi-Directional Middle-Out for CloudOps and DevOps
Let’s agree on a few things right out of the gate… First. with respect to CloudOps, the major driver of public cloud usage is new app development. Hybrid IT and multi-cloud brokering is the new...
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The Unexpected Business Benefits of Hybrid Clouds
IT pros of every stripe are in the process of rewriting their job descriptions. In many cases, the reality of 21st century data management leads to a version of this concept: “I’m a strategy consultant...
View ArticleWhat do experts say about the cloud for 2018?
As the cloud continues to grow and expand, more and more businesses are embracing the cloud and making use of all of the advantages that are offered. Recent years have been filled with much innovation...
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How Cloud Management Lets You Re-imagine the Possible
It seems like a contradiction: In the burgeoning cloud era of speed and agility, the biggest mistake you can make in formulating a winning cloud-management strategy is not that you think too big, but...
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Benefits and Challenges of Moving Existing Apps to the Cloud
When you need to move an existing app to the cloud, it can be quite a challenge. To begin, you will need to decide what method would be best to use in order to move a particular app over to the cloud....
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A valentine's day special… I DevOps, take you Cloud, to be my happily ever after
A ‘meet cute’ for you non-Rom-Com fans is where the couple gets together for the first time. Just think of Harry and Sally in that first car-share sequence. If that means nothing to you then I can’t...
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5 Ways to Ensure Cloud Cost Transparency and Accurate Analytics
"You can't manage what you can't see."It can also be said that nothing of value is gained without a price. There are cost savings to be realized by migrating workloads from legacy systems to cloud...
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Calling all partners: Join the CloudOps and DevOps revolution to tap into...
I’ve spent the last few months since I joined Morpheus talking to the channel community and some patterns are emerging that I wanted to share. For customers, this blog is not for you… no offense but...
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What do the Olympics and Zambonis have to do with Cloud and DevOps?
It might be a stretch but stick with me. First, as a winter sports nut and father of two daughters, it’s been fun to watch the women bring home the medals– including a fantastic win by the women’s...
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EMA Top3 report on containers and DevOps at scale: 10 priorities for 2018
When I first met Torsten Volk from Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) I was attending the DevOps Enterprise Summit (#DOES2018) in San Francisco. We did a fun video and blog post based on some of...
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Defining (and Leading) a Winning Digital Transformation Strategy
New industries and technologies spin off new terms like sparks off a metal grinder. Finding two people who agree on the precise definition of these neologisms is not easy. That's why any venture should...
View ArticleAn interview with Tim Cook - From Google to NASA to Morpheus
How’s that for a click-bait title? Now to set the record straight I didn’t get air time with Apple’s CEO but I did get something even better… a few minutes with a Tim Cook who’s resume is equally as...
View ArticleDisneyland, Industry Changes, and Cloud Field Day
Years ago, when I was at HPE, the best Social Media guy I know (@CalvinZito) hosted a bunch of technical bloggers for a day to deep dive on all things storage. Fast forward and this week I found...
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Is it better to be 'Cloud-first', 'Cloud-only', or 'Cloud-ready'
Is "private cloud" an endangered species? After all, the conventional way of running a private cloud is to buy and manage the servers and other hardware infrastructure used to store and operate your...
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Cloud Governance: The Key to Effectively Scaling Your Cloud
“Cloud speed” has taken the IT world by storm. When it comes to getting applications and data systems relocated to cloud services, the quicker the better, right? In most cases, such hasty...
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Multi-cloud and Hybrid Cloud: A World of Difference
"Multi-cloud" and "hybrid cloud" are often used interchangeably. While the two terms are related, they describe two distinct (but both important) concepts. Understanding the difference can help ensure...
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For Cloud and DevOps, Look to People and Process as much as Technology
No industry hypes like the tech industry. The Internet of Things, Big Data, AI, Cloud, DevOps… All are world-changing, trillion-dollar opportunities that your company can't afford to miss out on,...
View ArticleFinTech Meets DevOps, and the Rest Is History
These days, the place to see state-of-the-art technology in action is your local financial services company. If software is indeed eating the world, as Marc Andreessen famously stated back in 2011, the...
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DevOps and CloudOps: The connection behind digital transformation acceleration
DevOps transforms internal release processes to in turn transform systems of innovation, and CloudOps transforms IT’s relationship with infrastructure and architecture. These twin trends of DevOps and...
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How to conquer cloud complexity by solving for the right problem
We're a couple of months post-Dell EMC world, on the heels of Cisco Live and in advance of HPE Discover and VMworld. Given that timing, I feel compelled to put pen to paper to discuss the macro level...
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How to Avoid the Most Common Cloud-Migration Mistakes
There's no teacher like experience. There's also nothing like learning from the experience of others.The cloud pioneers are worth heeding when you're embarking on an application migration project. One...
View ArticleGovernment Organizations Driving Further Cloud Computing Growth
While businesses often are the catalysts for driving cloud growth, government organizations are picking up steam in this area and are helping to drive the growth of the cloud even further. A recent...
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Six ways to ensure you're conserving your cloud resources
"I didn’t realize we were wasting so much time and money." That is the most likely reaction to your next cloud audit, particularly if it has been more than a few months since your last cloud-spending...
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Three questions to ask before you start a cloud migration
While many times cloud migrations can feel like they are at a standstill or going way too slow, there are also times where migrations can actually be moving too fast. To determine whether your...
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Efficient multi-cloud management and DevOps requires transparency
As multi-clouds become the norm, finding and addressing wasteful cloud resources jump to the top of the list of IT concerns. Keeping cloud management simple, timely, and accurate requires a view into...
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An Architect's View on DevOps in the Multi-Cloud Enterprise
Guest Post by Morpheus Senior Solution Architect Adam Hicks Earlier this summer, I had the opportunity to speak at a small, Enterprise IT event in Chicago. To give you some context, this was a...
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How scaling and bursting help futureproof your clouds
Someday, something will cause the traffic on your network to spike unexpectedly. Maybe the jump will be the result of a royal engagement, as Canadian fashion company Line the Label experienced late...
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Top 5 Reasons VMware Users Love Morpheus
Countdown to #VMworld2018! It’s going to be my first VMware event with Morpheus after having spent many a VMworld attached to the storage industry. My own journey from storage specialist to the world...
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Your plan for sourcing and supporting I&O automation
Your company's early DevOps projects went off without a hitch, resulting in automated deployment, continuous integration/continuous delivery, and other promised benefits. So why did your DevOps plans...
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Morpheus CMP awarded a Best of VMworld for Agile Operations and Automation
On the plane back from VMworld US 2018 I was exhausted after 6 days in Las Vegas but also so excited I couldn’t sleep. VMworld has definitively shifted towards Multi-Cloud Orchestration and DevOps...
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Match multi-cloud workloads to specific cloud types to maximize your apps' value
Not many companies are able to rely exclusively on cloud-native apps. Most are balancing cloud-hosted workloads with their counterparts running on premises and will be doing so for some time to come....
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Right-size your multi-cloud workloads using AI and machine learning
The only thing better than knowing what your customers are doing right now is knowing what they're going to do before they do it.Much like the adoption of autonomous vehicles promises to transform how...
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Global multi-cloud management from a single interface
Since the dawn of information technology, practitioners have worn their cynicism about new technologies like a badge of honor. For the most part, the cynics are spot-on: No tech innovation ever lives...
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A perspective on Q3 CMP acquisitions and market requirements
I just officially hit the 1-year mark here at Morpheus after spending a decade in storage and another managing IT systems and software as a customer. Given that timing and some recent news in the CMP...
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A long and winding road… One SA's path to Morpheus Data
Gul ParyaniI’ve been around the IT industry as a customer and on the vendor side for most of my life, including time spent working in storage, hyper-converged infrastructure, and monitoring. In that...
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The antidote for multi-cloud complexity is unified management
Start counting off multi-cloud benefits and you soon run out of fingers:Avoid vendor lock-inMatch the right tool for the jobDemocratized access to stakeholdersBalance performance and costOf course,...
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Four ways your people may be your biggest liability
People are expensive, so use them for innovation, not for the mundane. The largest source of overhead for your business is human capital. Why waste that doing things that aren't meaningful to the...
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