Why Hybrid Clouds Look Like my Grandma’s Network?
Do you think hybrid clouds look like your granny’s network too? Well, that may be extreme, but there is no doubt that hybrid clouds are networked in ways we saw things connected a decade back....
View ArticleThree Pitfalls to Avoid While “Hitching your Wagon to the Cloud” (Pitfall 1:...
Last week at the Cloud Connect 2012 conference in Santa Clara, I was sharing a panel with industry colleagues representing the most prominent vendors in the application optimization, cloud...
View ArticleCan Cloud Cost You Your Job? (Pitfall 2: Force Fitting Cloud into Your...
In a previous blog, I posted the first of three pitfalls of hitching your wagon to the cloud . Today, let’s cover the second pitfall of force fitting cloud into your current security model....
View ArticleCloud Myopia (Pitfall 3: I Can See the Data Center Clearly, but Users Look...
Since my previous posts on cloud anomalies, Cisco did a worldwide survey of 1000+ IT professionals across 13 countries regarding their cloud deployments. The results reinforced challenges with...
View ArticleFinally, a hybrid cloud that makes both users and IT happy!
Two years back, I disparaged hybrid clouds in my blog: “ Why Hybrid Clouds Look Like my Grandma’s Network ”. Since then the pain and necessity of many clouds in business environment has become acute. I...
View ArticleBuilding a Successful Hybrid Cloud That Delivers Flexibility, Choice and Control
The debate about whether businesses need hybrid clouds is over. Technology executives see value in public clouds because they offer speed, economics, and scale that are very hard to achieve in a...
View ArticleThree Hybrid Cloud Applications That Make it Worth the Fuss…
So you thought that cloud was the fad of the day. But it stuck. Now you hear all the fuss about hybrid cloud. Even the die-hard cloud fanatics who believed that the only cloud had to be in the public...
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