Enterprises have been willing to dip their toes in the cloud by migrating applications that are not mission-critical, saving their “crown jewel” applications for a future round of cloud migration. That allows the enterprise to start taking advantage of cloud benefits without exposing themselves to unnecessary risks by running mission-critical or line-of-business applications in an environment that does not fully match the functionality, resilience, or performance of their on-prem production environments. The Challenges of Migrating Applications to the Cloud When it comes to mission-critical application migration workloads, concerns about performance (IOPS, throughput, and latency) cause enterprises to pause and evaluate their options. Public clouds can only guarantee certain levels of IOPS and latency requirements. Sometimes, IT leaders discover that their applications do not work as well in the cloud as they did on-premises. Unpredictable cloud bills have also proven to be a...
How To Reduce Public Cloud Storage Costs. Download the full slide deck on Slideshare . John Bedrick, Sr. Director of Product Marketing Management and Solution Marketing, discussed how SoftNAS Cloud NAS is helping to reduce Public Storage Costs. In this post, you will get a better understanding of the data growth trends and what needs to be considered when looking to make the move into the Public cloud. How To Reduce Public Cloud Storage Costs The amount of data that has been created by businesses is staggering — it’s on an order of doubling every 18 months. This is really an unsustainable long-term issue when we see what IT budgets are growing at compared to businesses. IT budgets on average are growing maybe about 2 to 3% annually. Obviously, according to IDC, by 2020 which is not that far off, 80% of all corporate data growth is going to be unstructured — that’s your emails, PDF, Word Documents, images, etc. — while only about 10% is going to come in the form of structured...