Turducken, 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...
View ArticleTips for making your cloud environment last
If you are looking to convince your company to make the transition to the cloud (or already have), you will want to ensure that both the cloud culture and infrastructure is as future-proof and...
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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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