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Don’t let buzzwords drive your cloud architecture
Many enterprises follow the crowd and choose as many hyped concepts as possible. Don't do it. Work from the requirements to the solution, not the other way around.
When finops costs you more in the end
Cloud finops can save you tons of money on cloud spending and return more value to the business. Unfortunately, mistakes are costing companies big time.
Gatsby, Netlify, and the gravitational pull of general-purpose platforms
Developers want snazzy and innovative, but CIOs want stable and safe. The Gatsby acquisition shows an attempt to bridge those two desires.
3 reasons not to repatriate cloud-based apps and data sets
A close examination of specific business needs may reveal that staying in the cloud is the best choice for most applications and workloads.
Google blew it with open source layoffs
The decision to cut people who built the foundation that supports Google’s open source and cloud successes seems incredibly shortsighted.
The downsides of cloud-native solutions
Cloud-native development is having a great run of popularity and growth, but complexity and vendor lock-in are the trade-offs for agility and reliability.
The mark of a healthy engineering culture
The primary benefit of healthy engineering culture is predictability—the ability to ship high-quality software on time, reliably and repeatedly. It flows from the bottom up.
Rational exuberance drives IT spending
Enterprises seem to recognize that the flexibility and other benefits of cloud (machine learning, IaaS) are even more critical in uncertain times.
Which cloud workloads are right for repatriation?
The idea of cloud repatriation is sensitive and often misunderstood. Let’s do some back-of-the-napkin calculations to see where it might make sense.
Today’s industry clouds are different
Vertical industry clouds have key capabilities that were missing in the past. With various granularity levels and better integration, vertical clouds will work this time.
Poor cloud architecture and operations are killing cloud ROI
It's old news that some enterprises are not getting the expected value from cloud computing. It’s time to be real about the core causes and how to fix things.
5 ways devops can reduce energy consumption
Move forward on sustainability goals by gathering usage data and making smart decisions about cloud and automation.
2023 could be the year of public cloud repatriation
With cloud costs and complexity higher than expected, many enterprises are making a U-turn and putting applications and data back in traditional systems.
Why don’t cloud providers integrate?
Enterprises will never be single-vendor IT shops. Cloud providers and other technology vendors that don’t play well with competitive products are harming their customers.
The exploding multicloud management market
The past few years saw the proliferation of multiclouds and tools to manage them. Now it's time to update your strategy to maximize multicloud ROI.
What to do when your devops team is downsized
Five tips to help you manage the emotional and practical repercussions when colleagues are let go.
Who is invited to your cloud strategy party?
Small inner circles that control overall cloud strategies and deployment decisions are on the rise, even though it isn't in the best interest of the business or IT.
