Make Validation a Priority for Successful Data Center Migration As our previous blog ‘Effective Planning Eliminates Migration Complexity’ explained, comprehensive planning and discovery are critical to migration success. Validation plays an equally important role – before and after migration execution.…

Why Effective Planning Eliminates Migration Complexity Data center migration can be complex, time-consuming and costly and that makes careful, comprehensive discovery and planning essential. Skipping tasks at this stage can lead to errors, problems and unnecessary rework later in the…

The workplace is changing and that is putting new demands on IT. There’s a changing structure to the workforce too with remote, part-time and freelance employees as well as full-time office based staff. Around 22 percent of Americans work from…

Digital transformation remains in the headlines, but where should the focus be? Should IT leaders focus on initiatives that improve enterprise processes, or look beyond to transform the services that customers experience? A survey by Forrester Research found that companies…

A recent IDG survey, The Challenge of Change: IT in Transition, found that while businesses recognized the importance of IT transformation, the majority were unsure how to map their journey. The challenge is to modernize IT to support business needs…

Planning Storage Migration – Preparation is Vital If your business currently relies on legacy storage, you may be struggling with siloed structures, multiple vendors and diverse storage devices. That can create bottlenecks, slow application performance, under-utilized capacity and poor access…

RPA (Robotic Process Automation) technology is on the way to becoming a billion dollar market by 2020 with around 40 percent of large enterprises using at least one RPA tool, according to Gartner. The analysts suggest that RPA combined with…

Control and visibility – two terms that keep coming up in any discussion of data center migration and the cloud. Together with security, they make up a trio of concerns that can put the brakes on any rush to the…

Considering Hybrid Cloud? The Right Services are Essential Hybrid cloud is emerging as an important strategy for businesses with workloads that require a mix of on-premise for security and compliance, and cloud for agility. The strategy was given further impetus…

With cloud migration dominating the headlines for many years, the traditional data center appeared to have a limited and diminishing role. It was only seen as essential for mission-critical applications or applications subject to regulatory compliance or stringent service level…

Software testing is a key element of quality management. It ensures that software is free of bugs and meets its performance targets. That, in turn, enhances user and customer satisfaction, and reduces overall maintenance costs. However, traditional in-house manual testing…

A Gartner research note – Utilizing Network Service Provider Direct WAN Connectivity for the Cloud – highlights the importance of choosing the right network connection to ensure full value from cloud investments. Although the public Internet has been the prevalent…