Over the last year or so, there has been a lot of publicity around cloud computing — both public and private. Most of the publicity seems to be centered around how businesses need to move away from their physical on-premises systems to a purely cloud-based architecture.
I recently had the privilege of attending the 7x24 Exchange Intl.’s 2019 Fall Conference in Phoenix. Throughout the course of the event, there were a lot of topics I heard repeatedly: cybersecurity, speed, 5G, microgrids, renewables, infrastructure, and cloud and edge computing.
The number of locations enterprise IT teams are responsible for managing is exploding across sectors, and the number of applications and devices that teams are leveraging to connect their workers is on a similarly epic growth trajectory.
Many business owners or IT managers overlook what unanticipated downtime could mean for their business. In fact, many are well-prepared for planned downtime events (such as migrations, scheduled maintenance, etc.). However, when the unexpected happens, they are stuck between a rock and a hard place.
With the rapid adoption of cloud services and an increasing number of cloud infrastructure and platform services, we have witnessed an explosion in complexity and unmanaged risk in the mission critical industry.
Whether an organization starts out with a modest, on-premises IT infrastructure or uses a public cloud provider to meet its data and networking needs, it will eventually reach a point where that solution is no longer viable.