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“Cloud First” Lesson’s Learned from ViON

Cloud Musings

This “Cloud First” initiative was a complement to the 2010 Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative (FDCCI) , which was created to reverse the historic growth of Federal data centers. Apart from physical relocation of equipment, customers achieved data center consolidation thru virtualization.

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Hybrid Cloud Versus Hybrid IT: What’s the Hype?

Cloud Musings

On the other hand, hybrid IT appears to be the sensible choice for leveraging traditional data center investments. Data center investment business models always promise significant ROI within a fairly short time frame; if not, they wouldn’t have been approved. Jackson 2015 ) Follow me at [link].

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Think carefully before considering cloud repatriation

CIO Business Intelligence

For example, if you move the front end of an application to the cloud, but leave the back end in your data center, then all of a sudden you’re paying for two sets of infrastructure.” Dropbox made a splash when they migrated away from AWS storage service to their own custom-designed infrastructure starting in 2015.

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Hybrid IT Governance: Automation is Key

Cloud Musings

Exemplary of a successful transition was when a leading, Fortune 500 nutrition, health and wellness company decided to migrate applications from two end-of-life data centers. A visual designer that includes sync-and-discover capabilities to pull all assets (VMs) into a single, architectural view and management standard.

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DevOps and Hybrid Infrastructure Synergy

Cloud Musings

Although consolidation, outsourcing and IT efficiencies may reduce the number of corporately owned data centers, a hybrid operational environment will still remain. Jackson 2015 ) Follow me at [link]. If you enjoyed this article , get free updates by email or RSS - © Copyright Kevin L.

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How to Put Public Sector Data Migration Hassles on the Road to Extinction

Cloud Musings

And their concerns are not unfounded: In its 2015 State of Resilience report, Vision Solutions revealed that 36 percent of respondents had experienced a migration failure. The process typically involves halting production periodically to take snapshots of data and testing those snapshots.

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How to Put Public Sector Data Migration Hassles on the Road to Extinction

Cloud Musings

And their concerns are not unfounded: In its 2015 State of Resilience report, Vision Solutions revealed that 36 percent of respondents had experienced a migration failure. The process typically involves halting production periodically to take snapshots of data and testing those snapshots.

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