We’re halfway through our blog series comparing the performance between the Silk Platform and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP for AWS (as published in a whitepaper on NetApp’s website) You can find my first three blog posts where we compared results for tests focused on 4K Random Reads, 8K Transactional/OLTP workload, and Sequential Reads here.
We’re a few posts into our blog series comparing the performance between the Silk Platform and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP for AWS (as published in a whitepaper on NetApp’s website) You can find my first two blog posts where we looked at some basic hero number tests with 4K Random Reads and a simple 8K Transactional/OLTP type workload.
Last week, we shared with you the first installment of a series of blogs where we are going head-to-head with NetApp on performance tests they conducted on AWS IaaS – the results of which they published on their website.
Choosing a platform that consistently delivers both maximum performance and availability in the public cloud is a bit of a challenge today. Cloud IaaS is good enough for general workloads, but it isn’t built to support the mission critical transactional apps that are time sensitive and are key to a great customer experience. Beneath the marketing hype, which vendor can actually deliver the highest performance with costs lower than cloud native IaaS?
The Oracle database is widely used around the globe for mission-critical applications and migrating Oracle workloads to the public cloud requires significant planning and testing. This blog examines the 5 challenges of migrating Oracle database workloads to Microsoft Azure and how to solve them.
Whether your company is born-in-the-cloud or you have a corporate initiative to migrate more data to the cloud, there are a few risks and challenges with putting your “crown jewels” into the hands of AWS, Azure, or GCP. In this post, we’ll outline what to look out for and how to circumnavigate around these challenges.
I recently published a post about AWS’s io2 Block Express on LinkedIn. After reading it, a friend called me — yes, he actually called me on the phone! — to ask me what my thoughts are about the new GP3 offering announced during re:invent alongside the io2 Block Express offering. And I thought it would be a good idea to share them with you as well.
With the rise of the big three public cloud vendors, many companies began to adopt “Cloud-First” strategies. The cloud took the burden of managing infrastructure off of the hands of employees and freed them up to focus on more important tasks. It’s more elastic compared to on-prem, so there is less waste. You can easily spin up new environments to meet a global customer base, versus setting up a whole new datacenter. And with advanced services from the major public cloud vendors, it’s hard to resist putting all your applications in the cloud. However, many soon have come to realize that Cloud-First wasn’t necessarily the best strategy as some workloads are better suited for on-prem or private cloud infrastructure.
You know the old saying, “Don’t put all of your eggs in one basket”? That saying rings true when it comes to storing your data in the cloud. Below are 4 reasons why you should be adopting a multicloud strategy.
Adopting a hybrid cloud strategy offers you the flexibility to move workloads to the infrastructure that makes the most sense and to take advantage of all the benefits of various public cloud vendors and private cloud as well. But what if the strategy that you put into place isn’t working for you anymore? Here are 3 signs that it’s time to rethink your hybrid cloud strategy that you should keep an eye out for: