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Repurposing IT – How cloud-based VMware infrastructure enables better strategic focus
How strategic is your IT team? Ask two questions to get a sense of your strategic value: Ask the employees in your organization whether they feel like Information Technology makes the organization run more effectively. As an IT professional, ask yourself whether your IT team helps your organization get the most out of its critical […]
Infrastructure as Code: Four Ways to Automate VMware Cloud Management
For years, IT infrastructure provisioning was a manual process. This made sense when deploying a new server meant placing a purchase order, waiting for gear to arrive, racking the new gear, and then finally applying a bespoke configuration to support a new workload. However, now that most workloads are moving to the cloud, new VMs […]
Key Takeaways from Gartner’s 2019 Security and Risk Management Summit – The Business Case for Organizational Resilience
More than 3,500 IT risk and security professionals congregated outside of Washington, D.C., recently to attend the 2019 Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit to gain the latest insights on evolving security trends and the ever-changing threat landscape. I was among the team from Expedient who were there to meet with vendors, partners, clients, and […]
The Differences Between Backups and Disaster Recovery
Modern IT departments need to be able to protect their mission-critical data and quickly respond in the event of a problem in their environment. This capability hinges on maintaining a strategy for both backups and disaster recovery. These two capabilities are often conflated with each other but this blog post will explore the differences between […]
Hyperscale or Enterprise Cloud? Let Your Applications Decide – Part 2
This is the second installment of a two-part blog post on the difference between “smart” and “dumb” applications. Part 2 covers the characteristics of “dumb applications” that are best suited to run on “smart hardware.” To learn more about “smart applications” (aka cloud native applications) running on “dumb hardware,” read Part 1. Dumb Applications on […]
Hyperscale or Enterprise Cloud? Let Your Applications Decide – Part I
While many think buying cloud services is as easy as choosing between AWS or Azure, educated buyers explore all the options – both hyperscale and enterprise clouds – and choose the environment that will maximize application performance while optimizing cloud spend. Often, this best-of-breed approach leads to complex multi-cloud and hybrid IT environments that consist […]
Four Ways to Deploy Kubernetes on VMware
Kubernetes (k8s) is quickly becoming the de facto standard for container orchestration because it provides an effective framework to operate applications built using microservices architecture. Also known as application “containerization,” this approach enables development teams to be more agile, employ continuous delivery practices, and ultimately bring new business applications to market faster. k8s streamlines the […]
Expedient Enterprise Cloud vs. On-Prem VMware – The business case for turnkey infrastructure as a service
Just about everyone in IT has used VMware’s vSphere to build and/or operate an on-premise or colocated cluster at some point or another. vSphere enables you to take a group of hosts, form them into a cluster, and run virtual machines on top. vCenter server provides some great features like the ability to migrate a […]
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