The cloud is a commercial vehicle. This undeniable truth must now be accepted as a deeply entrenched truism by CIOs who are looking to manage the forward-looking growth of their technology architectures. We can actually refine this statement further. The…
Data Centers are subject to outages in power or network connectivity that can adversely affect services that rely on them. As far as clients are concerned, a significant outage can ruin their opinion of the business. Case in point? Recent…
When IT consultancy OpenCredo set out to launch three new applications within seven months for a major insurance underwriter, it had three goals in mind: Trim development time from the usual years-long pace, allow for frequent changes from the client,…
When is colocation a better fit than cloud computing? That’s one of the most frequent CIO and data center strategy questions we hear as companies tour our Indianapolis colocation facility. Let’s define terms. Colocation is outsource data center facilities: hardened…
It all sounds great on paper: an integrated physical/virtual/cloud environment in which resources are spun up at the drop of a hat allowing enterprises to consume exactly what they need and not a bit more. In such a world, “cloud…
