How to Avoid Cloud Vendor Lock-in with Four Best Practices

This article on avoiding cloud vendor lock-in was originally published in Enterprise Tech Journal. Accelerating paces of digital business and technology innovations have created massive amounts of data that require continual integration. Ninety percent of the world’s data has been created in the past two years. Examples of new data include cloud, mobile, social media, […]

3 Enterprise Insights for Data Integration in Hybrid Cloud Environments

Enterprises are facing incredible pressure to deliver returns on big data. There’s a need to expand capabilities while lowering the cost of infrastructure investments. For many enterprises, the right solution is hybrid cloud data integration. Thirty-five percent of respondents to a recent data trends survey say the hybrid cloud has helped reduce costs, and 29 percent have […]

How to Avoid Cloud Vendor Lock-in with 4 Best Practices – Part 2

This article on avoiding cloud vendor lock-in was originally published in Enterprise Tech Journal. Part one of this two part post focused on the separation-of-concerns designs principle and designing resilient integration architectures for hybrid and multi-cloud environments. This part includes information on planning an integration strategy and adopting an enterprise integration solution. Best Practice 3: […]

IBM z15 – A New Member in the Multicloud Family

IBM announced the z15 mainframe on September 12, 2019. It’s a big deal in the mainframe world, and I was at IBM’s Poughkeepsie site on that day. I was there the whole week working with IBM’s performance team. That day, when we were having lunch together, their engineers’ excitement was too obvious for me to […]