In our series on IBM Systems Magazine’s article “Infrastructure Matters: Myth or Truth” we have discussed six misconceptions related to IT infrastructures. We will add two more today. Number seven is that big data and analytics solutions are expensive. That’s not necessarily true. With the right infrastructure in place, organizations can process, analyze and […]

Today we will cover two more of the myths listed in IBM Systems Magazine’s article “Infrastructure Matters: Myth or Truth” as the third part of our five-part series. The fifth misconception included in the article is that organizations can only take advantage of private or public clouds. IBM Systems Magazine explains that it’s not a […]

You are probably well aware that on July 14, 2015, Microsoft said goodbye to Windows Server 2003. They not only ended support for this product, but also no longer provide security patches or software and content updates. You may think that you will be okay and be able to hang on to your Windows Server […]

This post is the second in a series based on IBM Systems Magazine’s article titled “Infrastructure Matters: Myth or Truth”. In the first post, we discussed the first two of 10 misconceptions about IT infrastructure. Today, we will share two more. The third myth listed is that the cloud’s only value is cost reduction. We […]

There are many misunderstandings in the marketplace when it comes to what an IT infrastructure can or can’t do. IBM Systems Magazine laid those misconceptions out in the May issue in an article titled “Infrastructure Matters: Myth or Truth”. In this blog series, we will discuss the 10 different misconceptions that are included in the […]

In our last blog post, we compared Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) with other cloud computing models.  Today, we are discussing why IaaS is becoming a popular way for businesses of all sizes and in all industries to manage their IT environments.

We have defined Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and its benefits in the past blog posts. Today, we are going to discuss the different types of IaaS environments. To make sure we are on the same page, we will first define an environment in the computing world as the infrastructure required to run the specific application workloads. In […]

There are so many acronyms, especially in the technology market, that it is hard to keep pace. Each new innovation seems to bring a slew of new acronyms to learn. Cloud computing is no different.