Hybrid and Multi-Cloud as an Operational Standard: Why It Matters

For many enterprises today, cloud computing is no longer a single destination. The old idea of “all workloads in one public cloud” is giving way to a more pragmatic strategy that mixes on-premises systems, public clouds, and multiple cloud providers. This is not just a technical trend. It’s a business strategy that delivers more control, flexibility, and cost effectiveness for decision makers at the top. What Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Really Mean Let’s break down the terms in business terms: Hybrid…

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Stop Buying the Wrong Storage

How to Choose the Right Storage Platform for Each Workload Every few years the storage industry reinvents the same lie. One platform that does everything. Vendors love it because it simplifies sales. Architects love it because it simplifies diagrams. Technicians hate it because physics still exists. Latency, throughput, metadata handling, failure domains and recovery behavior are not marketing features. They decide whether a platform is fast, stable or painful to operate. When storage is chosen wrong, no amount of tuning…

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What “Guaranteed IOPS” Really Means for Enterprise Workloads

When cloud providers advertise “Guaranteed IOPS,” most people assume:“I’ll always get X IOPS, no matter what.”That interpretation is operationally naĂŻve. The guarantee refers to minimum allocated capability, not to the performance your application will actually experience. 1. Guaranteed IOPS = minimum capability, not magic performance “Guaranteed IOPS” is about capacity, not about how fast every single I/O will feel to your application. Providers typically base their guarantees on ideal, synthetic tests (e.g. 4K random reads/writes, high queue depth). In reality:…

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