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The Cloud Challenge: Choice Paralysis and the Bad Strategy of “On-Premising” the Cloud

The cloud is vast. It is natural that we look at the cloud and understand it through the narrow lens of our previous experiences. This can translate into solutions that underutilize/overutilize one area of the cloud over other areas. Innovative and robust solutions often require the use of the full spectrum.

Most companies are migrating to the cloud because they want to unlock new business opportunities, but many of them stumble because they continue to build solutions that are only suitable for on-premises. Imagine your IT workloads are on servers that sit in the basement of your corporate office. Would moving these servers to the first floor of that office open any new opportunities for your business? Of course not. Lifting and shifting your servers to the cloud might save you money, but it certainly won’t take you any further. The first and most important thing to remember about the cloud is that the cloud is not a place, it is a model. Building for the cloud requires a mindset change, not a location change. 

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How to Create E-Learning Cloud Software Users Will Love

Over the last ten months, the educational sector was forced to reconsider many routines. After the shutdowns, schools had to create a virtual learning environment that would be as close to classroom learning as possible. And to be honest, that appeared to be a huge problem due to both unequal access to gadgets and lack of integration of technology into the daily educational practices.

These circumstances resulted in the increased attention to e-learning using cloud computing. On the one hand, cloud software helps to make the shift to remote studying less complicated. On the other hand, it offers benefits to exploit in a traditional classroom environment as well.

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Get Ahead Using Cloud Native Potential

Zip-disks, iPods, BetaMax, Google Glass. If there's one thing that's constant in the world of technology, it's change. Today, cloud adoption has provided one of the fastest routes to business transformation. In the past, IT systems had to be retrofitted for cloud capabilities. Now, applications have evolved to leverage new capabilities; Cloud Native.

Cloud Native applications are designed, built, and deployed specifically for either public, private, or hybrid cloud. They are “born into” the cloud environment and bound not to exist elsewhere, taking the best advantage of what a cloud can offer.  They derived from the modern IT development approaches popularized and well-acclaimed over the years, including microservices, continuous development, and continuous integration and DevOps.