Posts by Sam Nicholls

Microsoft Azure is a cloud platform used by many businesses to host data and run applications. However, the popularity of cloud services makes them often a frequent target for cyber attackers. Read more

The cloud certainly doesn’t come without its fair share of challenges, and one of those challenges can be determining what is your responsibility and that of AWS. Read more

Hybrid and multi-cloud environments are common place for greater flexibility, resilience, compliance capabilities, and opportunities for optimization and innovation for modern businesses. Read more

The public cloud is an increasingly important part of IT infrastructure for many organizations. Cloud services offer scalability and flexibility, but those benefits can be costly. Read more

Hot on the heels of Veeam and Microsoft’s five-year strategic partnership announcement and the release of Veeam Data Cloud, I have exciting news for you. Veeam Data Cloud Vault is now Generally Available (GA)! Read more

Hybrid cloud infrastructure offers a more balanced approach to computing resources, allowing companies to use a combination of  their data center(s) and one or more public (shared) clouds. Read more

Hybrid cloud management involves a mixed computing environment, comprising a mixture of public clouds and private clouds or on-premises infrastructure. Many organizations use a hybrid cloud architecture because it allows them to spread workloads over multiple data centers and cloud providers to extend their capabilities while retaining existing hardware and services. Read more

Google Cloud is a collection of services including storage and compute resources, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS), provided by Google. The company offers several pricing options catering to different demographics and use cases, including a free tier, pay-as-you-go options, and discounted long-term reservations. Because there are so many pricing options, it can be difficult for organizations to predict how much their cloud usage will cost them. Read more

Cloud computing has become ubiquitous and has reached the point where nearly half of all workloads run in the cloud. Currently, most organizations operate a combination of on-premise and cloud workloads, known as a hybrid cloud. Typically, they keep key services within their data centers and use the cloud for customer-facing services, software applications and flexible data storage. The hybrid cloud model is ideal because it is not always possible, or even wise, to move everything to the cloud for reasons like cost, performance and compliance. Read more

One of, if not the most, challenging aspects of cloud cost optimization and data is achieving your desired outcome without being shocked by your bill at the end of the month. Balancing the needs of your business and your proverbial checkbook is not an easy thing. Read more