If you are looking to get out of the datacenter and stop managing hardware, Lift and Shift is your best approach. The Lift and Shift model offers the fastest and the least disruptive method to migrate to the cloud, allowing applications to have higher performance at a low upfront cost.
“Shift to SaaS” is a cloud migration model to consider when you want to free your IT team from maintaining applications that are not customer-facing. Read on to learn why you should move back-office applications to SaaS. Why shift to SaaS? Back-office applications suck a lot…
When you stand back and observe how technology is evolving, you will notice two things: Every corner of our lives is becoming digital and the rate of technology change is exponentially increasing. This begs a question: How is it that this rate of change can be sustained without the wheels falling off the proverbial bus?
Microservices are becoming the de facto approach to how new applications are built today. Although there are many benefits to microservices, the security risks associated with microservices are growing faster than current security practices can handle. To understand why this…
Multi-Cloud is a term used to describe IT infrastructure that uses multiple Public Cloud providers. Given that Cloud offers native redundancy, you may wonder why go that route? In the article below we explore several reasons why a Multi-Cloud provides an…
For the last 12-24 months I’ve been saying that open source has finally entered the mainstream. I’m happy to see that Mary Catherine O’Connor’s article entitled Open source: The new normal in enterprise software validates my claim! At Shadow-Soft we have…
Cloud infrastructure has been around long enough that IT professionals like myself have several stories to tell and a few battle wounds to show. In this article, I share the lessons that fellow customers, colleagues, and I have learned as…
Techy-Brain Cells Needed (1-50): 30 Introduction Ansible is a very popular orchestration, deployment, and provisioning software tool. In most cases, Ansible will automate your workload in an efficient and rapid manner. However, for certain processes and sizeable workloads, you may…
Technical disruption is everywhere. I would go so far as to say that we are on the cusp of another ‘Industrial Revolution’ with IT taking the place of industrial equipment. From the emergence of SMAC (Social, Mobile, Analytics, Cloud) to…
Everywhere you look are pizza boxes and half-empty Red Bulls. Admins, illuminated by the glow of 30″ monitors, sit hunched over keyboards typing furiously. It’s 3 AM, the day of your new software release and right now those admins are…