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High availability and disaster recovery: What lies ahead for IT in 2022

By Charlotte Ley|2021-12-13T08:11:53+01:00 13 December, 2021|News|

In 2021, IT teams had to cope with enormous changes and protect their critical operations against unprecedented threats from Covid, natural disasters, supply chain disruptions and staff shortages. Many moved mission-critical systems to the cloud and hybrid cloud and implemented advanced, application-specific high-availability clustering and disaster recovery solutions. The impact of global change and looming threats continues. What do these changes mean for IT in the coming year? Here are some predictions to consider. Multi-cloud infrastructures will become mainstream With the widespread adoption of cloud computing as a core component of today's IT infrastructures, organizations will no longer consider a single cloud for their cloud needs. Despite the added complexity of running different workloads on different clouds, a multi-cloud model will allow enterprises to select cloud offerings that are best suited for their unique application environments, availability requirements and business needs. However, enterprises should note that cloud SLAs [...]

Embedding resilience into your cloud-based modernization strategy

By Charlotte Ley|2021-08-24T08:21:15+02:00 24 August, 2021|Interest|

As part of transformation and modernization strategies, enterprises are increasingly adopting cloud-first strategies. This provides an ideal opportunity to embed resilience. Consider three core components of modernization: people, applications and IT. "We don't know of any vendor or service provider today whose business model and revenue growth is not impacted by the increasing adoption of cloud-first strategies." Those were the words of Gartner analyst Sig Nag, commenting on the company's recent finding that the public cloud services market grew an astounding 17.5 percent in 2019 to a total of $214.3 billion. While the cloud is transforming businesses of all types, a key aspect of its appeal to traditional enterprises in particular is the role it plays in modernizing existing IT structures. In particular, migrating existing IT to an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) model can be a blessing to comprehensive modernization strategies, with pay-as-you-use pricing structures helping to streamline and scale [...]