The Antidote to Cloud Overprovisioning 

The Antidote to Cloud Overprovisioning 

VM and network upgrades can improve poor cloud performance in the short-run, but lose effectiveness over time because they don’t address one of its major causes. As a result, successive rounds of increasingly expensive upgrades and budget-busting overprovisioning have...
Recent Outages at AWS, Google, Microsoft, IBM and Oracle Highlight the Importance of Adopting a Hybrid Multi-Cloud Strategy with an HCI Platform to Support It.But slow is the new downtime, and none of the cloud vendors or HCI platforms address the underlying cause of poor cloud performance. What are they missing?

Recent Outages at AWS, Google, Microsoft, IBM and Oracle Highlight the Importance of Adopting a Hybrid Multi-Cloud Strategy with an HCI Platform to Support It.

But slow is the new downtime, and none of the cloud vendors or HCI platforms address the underlying cause of poor cloud performance. What are they missing?

Over 90% of large enterprises have moved from relying on a single cloud provider, to a hybrid multi-cloud architecture that combines on-premises infrastructure with multiple public clouds.1 They’ve done this largely as a defensive measure against outages like those...
Gartner Says Many More of Us Will be Working From Home Post-Covid-19 if CFOs Have Their Way.  The Potential Savings Look Too Good to Pass Up.Can Companies Make this Shift Without Sacrificing Employee Productivity and Data Security, Costing Them Much More in the End?

Gartner Says Many More of Us Will be Working From Home Post-Covid-19 if CFOs Have Their Way. The Potential Savings Look Too Good to Pass Up.

Can Companies Make this Shift Without Sacrificing Employee Productivity and Data Security, Costing Them Much More in the End?

According to a recent Gartner Survey of 317 corporate CFOs, remote work and telecommuting will become more permanent and widespread after Covid-19. Among the CFOs surveyed, 74% expect to move previously onsite employees to remote work post-Covid-19, in a bid to cut...

Quality of Service (QoS)

Why it Matters, Why Your Network Can’t Always Deliver it, and How to Ensure It Does Executive Summary Network QoS (Quality of Service) has been defined as the ability of a network to deliver thelevel of performance required for business-critical applications to meet...

Performance Testing with cURL, Part 2: Scripting

Struggling with poor network performance? Try This Now This is part 2 of a series. Click here to read part 1. Parallel cURL Testing To perform multiple curl transfers in parallel, we need to look at another tool: xargs. If you aren’t familiar with xargs, it is a...