According to Gartner, the average enterprise will overspend by 70% in the first 18 months of cloud deployment. Organizations have come to accept the public cloud as an inevitable destination for computing resources, applications, and data. Cloud offers an incredible range of services, resiliency, cost optimization, and reduced operational overhead. However, there is work to […]
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3 Ways Pivotal Can Revamp Your Middleware
While the exact definition of middleware varies, we classify middleware as API management, B2B gateways, application servers, event processing, and message-oriented middleware. Middleware has become a foundation for many businesses as digital transformation and cloud technologies are changing the way organizations operate. But as business demands increase, heritage middleware platforms are struggling to adapt, and […]
How Cloud Improves Processes to Bring ROI
The following is the ninth blog in a series about why businesses are moving to the cloud to modernize and improve business performance. In our previous blog, we highlighted the potential cloud offers as it pertains to making savings and generating revenue. In this blog, we’re going to examine a real-life example of this through […]
Essentials for Your Digital Strategy: Cloud Computing
Delivering seamless, consistent, and engaging experiences starts with a customer-centered digital strategy. This ongoing series explores the characteristics that make up a great digital strategy and how to deliver powerful brand moments that solidify customer loyalty and drive differentiation for your organization. Throughout this series, we’ve focused on several principles, strategies, and technological elements we […]
MS-700: Managing Microsoft Teams Study Guide
One thing many IT pros have been asking for since the release of Microsoft Teams was a certification to go along with it. There are some great resources from Edx out there that can help you gain more knowledge around all things Microsoft Teams (specifically “Enabling Teamwork with Microsoft Teams” and “Microsoft Services Adoption Specialist”) […]
Avoiding Disasters with Chaos Engineering
The cost of an outage to a business is very high. This isn’t news to anyone, but in today’s world of instant access and immediate gratification, it’s truer now than ever. Businesses today are expected to be accessible at all times to consumers. As a result, businesses need to build infrastructure and applications that are […]
Kubernetes Solution & Strategy for Enterprise Magento 2 Application
The hosting of an enterprise application is always challenging. It needs many complex components to work correctly and achieve agility, reliability, and security. In the past couple of years, container technologies have evolved rapidly to do the heavy lifting for enterprise applications in the cloud. The container has played a significant role in delivering robust […]
Focus on Change That Brings Value
This blog is part of a series, if you are just now joining us, we suggest you go catch up on what you’ve missed! In our previous post, we reviewed the solutions to period-close management. In this installment of the series, we will focus on changes and tools that can help bring value to your […]
Maximize Your ROI and Cost Savings With Cloud
The following is the eighth blog in a series about why businesses are moving to the cloud to modernize and improve business performance. So far in this series, we have covered topics such as the innovation cloud brings, cloud security, and disaster recovery in the cloud. In this blog, I want to address an issue […]
Using Azure Bastion as a Host for VMs
Microsoft Azure, one of the leading cloud providers, recently launched the preview of a new platform-as-a-service offering called “Azure Bastion”. This service gives a platform for the management and deployment of VMs, meaning you don’t have to keep up a foundation to do this. The word “bastion” itself means an adjustment for defense or safe place. Azure Bastion is a […]
Microsoft Ignite Recap: Teams Edition
Microsoft Ignite came and went in a flash! If you were like me and tried to catch all of the Teams sessions, you’d agree when I say that it was like drinking from a fire hose! Since it was nearly impossible to see all of the sessions for Teams at Ignite, I thought I’d round […]
Solutions to Period-Close Management
In our previous post, we looked at the challenges in managing the period-close process and their implications in finance organizations. In this post, we will review some solutions to period-close management. We will go on to examine the benefits of automated management tools over manual, and the use of real-time reporting tools. Period-Close Core to […]