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Hybrid Cloud Migration: Phase One of a Long-term Multi-Cloud Strategy
Somewhere there’s a business that’s still using dial telephones and paper rolodexes. That’s not your company. In fact, it is all but certain that your operation is using more than one cloud service,...
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New Views Into Cloud Application Performance
You can’t monitor what you can’t see. That seems overly simplistic, but it is the heart of the problem facing IT departments as their apps and other data resources are more widely dispersed among...
View ArticleWhy Multi-Tenant Application Architecture Matters in 2017
According to this ZDNet article, the global public cloud market will reach $146 billion in 2017, a $59 billion increase over 2015. A big chunk of this market is enterprises with a core product built on...
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Multi-Cloud Orchestration Tips from Morpheus' CTO
There’s an old joke about somebody going into a restaurant, opening a menu, and saying, “Everything looks so good, I think I’ll have ‘em all!” That’s what it can feel like when you look at your options...
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How to Break the Vicious Cycle of VM Overprovisioning
It’s an immutable fact of life for any IT manager: Sometime, somewhere, somehow, something will go wrong. It doesn’t matter whether you or anyone else was responsible. All that matters is you do...
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How Single Page Applications Influence Page Speed
Given the rise of Single Page Applications (SPA), along with the much wider use of asynchronous HTTP requests in general for web pages, it's more difficult to determine how page loading times affect...
View ArticleThe Pros and Cons of Shadow IT
Companies are using up to 15x more cloud services to store critical company data than CIOs were aware of or had authorized according to a study conducted by Cisco. This statistic helps conceptualize...
View ArticleCloud Governance in a Hybrid World: The New Role of IT
This guest post was written by Jeff Budge, VP of Advisory Consulting and Product Management, OneNeck IT Solutions The Cloud as a Change Agent for IT The continuing adoption of cloud is changing the...
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5 Tips for Production Code Readiness
When moving code to production, you always want to ensure things are as thoroughly tested as possible before a production update is put into place. Not having good testing and procedures in place can...
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The Benefits of Converged Infrastructure
With more and more services being moved into the cloud, a new trend toward the convergence of the various service types, which allows you to have your infrastructure, platform, and software as a...
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Why Is This 30-Year-Old Website Architecture So Popular in 2017?
A popular infrastructure for web applications is the “shared nothing” architecture (sometimes also referred to as “share nothing”). Interestingly enough, even though shared nothing architecture is...
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How to Create a Docker Backup With Morpheus
Docker and Morpheus go together like bread and butter. Want proof? Look no further than the process of creating container backups, which are an essential element of Docker management.Consider this...
View ArticleControl Plane Versus Data Plane
The terms control plane and data plane get tossed around quite a bit these days, but it seems that many have a difficult time understanding the key differences between these two terms, with the...
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How to Do DevOps Testing with Morpheus
The widespread adoption of agile development methods has transformed the software design timeline into a “time circle.” Everything happens simultaneously: design, test, deploy, maintain. Considering...
View Article21 Automated Deployment Tools You Should Know
Bill Gates was quoted as saying, “The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation...
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How MSPs Can Meet the Cloud Needs of Their Customers
You hear all this talk about how the cloud changes everything. Not really. The most important things stay the same. If you want to succeed, you need to have a plan. Not just any plan, but your plan....
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Hybrid Clouds: Here to Stay or Stopgap Technology?
When something is labeled a "hybrid," the natural inclination is to consider it temporary, a stopgap between what was and what will be. A gas-electric hybrid car, for example, combines old and new...
View ArticleHow to Use Netstat for Network Troubleshooting
When debugging networks problems on a Linux server, ping and traceroute are often helpful, but you may need to have further network details on hand to help track down an issue and get it fixed. One...
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The Drawbacks of Running Containers on Bare Metal Servers
Marketing hype isn't limited to the tech industries by any means, but the tech press certainly cranks up the hype machine to unprecedented levels. Among the recent darlings of the pundits is...
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Mastering the Art of Container Management
Managing containers in cloud environments would be a lot simpler if there were just one type of container you and your staff needed to deal with. Any technology as multifaceted as containerization...
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