Given the expensive consequences of even relatively short cloud outages, legal action is inevitable in some instances. Companies have to determine whether they actually have a case and if it even makes sense from a business perspective to engage in a legal battle. The potential for legal recourse goes back to the contract a customer […]
Cloud outages can result from a multitude of causes: software bugs, power failures, misconfigurations, resource exhaustion, and data center cooling issues. Cloud providers learn from each incident, accruing knowledge that can assist them in preventing future outages. But cloud customers must manage the consequences of being cut off from their cloud-based operations in the interim. […]
The concept of resiliency sounds like it should be easy to understand for a business. After all, the bottom line is to ensure that the business continues to work well, keeping data flowing into, through, and out from the organization Yet, cyber resilience is far more than a notebook full of disaster recovery plans gathering […]
IT chose to move to the cloud and cloud’s pay-per-use cost models because it wanted to operationalize instead of capitalize hardware and software. This has rendered hardware and software expenses discretionary instead of fixed, which potentially gives IT managers more flexibility to scale expenses upward or reduce them downward. This sounds ideal, but cloud spending […]
The question of whether an individual enterprise should go with a multi-cloud or sole-provider strategy seems to be largely settled. While some are happy having a single cloud service provider, surveys show that as many as 90% of large organizations are opting for a multi-cloud approach. Now, they just have to make that multi-cloud strategy […]