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Today, businesses of every shape and size are reliant on the Internet — even the smallest ones have at least a website for representation and advertising, while some are run entirely online. However, maintaining a company’s own servers is a costly and tedious procedure, which creates the need in cloud computing services.
Cloud computing stands for the delivery of computing services on demand (storage and processing power) over the Internet.
Data is a valuable asset for any organization. That’s the reason VMs (virtual machines) came to be. Users could perform tasks on a virtualized system that protects and secures data. But, VMs are expensive and that led to the rise of containers. However, VMs can’t be completely eradicated. Various enterprises depend on VMs in one way or another. Huge volumes of critical data are hosted on VMs, so it’s important to back them up because there’s an imminent threat of data loss. Traditionally, enterprises back up their VMs and store these backups in offsite data centers. This is done to have a copy of the data in case the primary data center is affected by a natural calamity or technical failure.
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I had the opportunity to meet with Vijay Kurkal, Chief Operating Officer at Resolve Systems to discuss the current state of IT automation and orchestration.
Most of Resolve Systems' customers are large Fortune 500 companies trying to figure out how to use automation to improve IT management processes the same way DevOps has improved development and deployment. Large legacy enterprises are spending 85% of their IT management budget just to keep lights on. 70% of that is personnel costs. Management is asking how we can use automation to improve IT management the same way it has improved development and deployment.
Nearly 60 percent of North American enterprises now rely on cloud platforms, according to a recent Forrester survey. The benefits of cloud are well known, but the question marks that remain have left a significant number of organizations hesitant to make the jump.
Several factors can slow down a company’s decision to adopt the cloud. Many organizations have the pre-conceived notions that cloud adoption comes with security risks and threats of data leakage. In reality, on-premise is probably just as risky than those fronts.
We operate in a continuous delivery world in which a seamless customer experience is paramount. Regardless of whether you're a global Fortune 500 organization or a fast-growing startup, failing to deliver a digital experience that delights your users is a critical mistake you can't afford to make.
A chief challenge compounding today's continuous delivery expectation is the growing amount of testing that has to be carried out. In the not-too-distant past, companies controlled all of their software, available on a single platform to a similar type of user with one uniform release cycle. Today's landscape is vastly different, with websites and apps relying on a mix of modules and services under the control of various vendors, all with independent release cycles, in a heterogeneous platform environment with a wide range of user types.