How Important is Platform and Cloud Portability?

One challenge in cloud computing is dealing with the gaps between different virtual networks that were implemented separately but now must work together. Virtual network pairing is an essential technique for bridging cloud-based networks to allow resource sharing.

Using the Azure cloud can give you so much in terms of infinite scalability and ease of allocation. But what if you’re seeing your cloud storage footprint and the costs associated with it growing larger and larger Watch the engaging on-demand webinar, "How to Get Real Cost-Savings on Azure Calculate Your TCO with Cloud Volumes ONTAP", in which you will Calculate your native Azure storage costs and compare them to your TCO using NetApp’s Cloud Volumes ONTAP for Azure.Learn how NetApp’s efficient snapshots, data cloning, data tiering, and thin provisioning, data compression, deduplication storage efficiencies combine to dramatically reduce storage costs.See how other companies are already using Cloud Volumes ONTAP to optimize and improve the costs of deploying on Azure.

Data Lake strategies seem to have found their perfect companion in cloud providers. After years of criticism and struggles in the on-prem Hadoop world, data lakes are flourishing thanks to the simplification in management and low storage prices provided by SaaS vendors. For some, this is the ultimate data strategy. For others, just a repetition of the same mistakes.

To create a new digital product or service, which cloud platform, services and architectures need to be decided; as depending on what's chosen it could impact the success of the end product. A Cloud-Native architecture will offer the most efficiency, flexibility, scalability and speed compared to other types of cloud solutions.