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As the public cloud has matured, providers have been able to utilize years of experience designing and reviewing cloud architectures for scores of companies.At AWS, all this learning has inspired the...

One of the most common challenges organizations face after making the move to the cloud is controlling costs.

Since its arrival on the scene, the public cloud has been dogged by one single question: Is it secure?

As Kubernetes continues to grow in popularity as a means to orchestrating containers, companies across industries are looking for ways to expedite their adoption.

Digital transformation is much more than a buzzy term. 

Recently, Redapt employees Rizwan Patel, Jerry Meisner, and Rohit Garg were awarded Container Black Belts from AWS — among the first individuals to receive the recognition. 

All the major cloud providers have products and services that, while similar, are designed for their specific platforms.

It can be hard to deploy machine learning models efficiently. This is due to a number of challenges data scientists routinely face, including:

According to the report “State of the Cloud 2021,” published by Bessemer Venture Partners, an estimated 80% of all sales interactions will happen through digital channels by the year 2025.

In today’s business environment, simply making smarter decisions is not enough to remain competitive. You need to make smarter decisions faster. That means finding ways to mine large amounts of data...

One of the more common speed bumps for today’s applications is the need to read and write data.No matter how nimble an application has been designed, the process of calling from—and pushing volumes...

In 1913, Henry Ford installed the first moving assembly line at the Highland Park factory in Michigan. The impact was immediate, with the amount of time to assemble a new car going from 12 hours to...

Before we dig into how SUSE Harvester can simplify the management of hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI), it’s a good idea to define just what HCI is.

When it comes to security, the less complicated the solution the more likely it is effective.

My name is Ben, and I’m a consultant. 

For nonprofits, doing more with less is not a goal, it’s the key to survival.

In June, Cyble Research Labs conducted a routine threat scan and uncovered more than 900,000 Kubernetes exposures across the internet.

Since the day Kubernetes 1.0 was released in 2015, the container orchestration tool has been rapidly adopted. The major cloud providers in particular have embraced it, each offering their own...

Today’s retail customers have come to expect increasingly quick, convenient, and frictionless digital experiences, a demand which can be met by data-driven solutions at the edge. 

Retail IT teams,...

It can be easy to think of storage infrastructure as static. A simple container for housing data and workloads.

It’s no secret that CloudHealth by VMware is invaluable for controlling and optimizing your spend in the cloud. It’s our go-to tool for exactly that reason.

Organizations fully committed to the cloud—that is, moving along the continuum toward being completely serverless—eventually run into the complexities of application modernization.While “lift and...

The rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI) didn’t happen by accident. In fact, it can be argued there are four key drivers behind the technology’s emergence.

One is the massive increase in the...

AIOps is an emerging technology that, as its name suggests, is the practice of applying artificial intelligence (AI) to IT operations. 

It combines the characteristics of AI and machine learning (ML)...

The term “Big Data” has a couple of meanings. 

Achieving a higher level of performance with cloud workloads gives organizations access to increased efficiency, lower costs, and more streamlined operations. Consistent optimization assists in this...

Readers of the site Future, from venture capital firm a16z, may have spotted an article headlined “The Cost of Cloud, a Trillion Dollar Paradox.” In the piece, the authors write:

Governance and cost control are the keys to ensuring your spend in AWS is in line with your expectations.

Migrating to a cloud environment like AWS can introduce unknowns and potential setbacks. But with the right resources, it doesn’t have to.

Migrating to cloud-native apps doesn’t need to be disruptive to your business. In this infographic, we detail the journey through picking your cloud provider and cloud type, as well as the benefits...

Over a quarter of the companies currently using AI claim that it’s directly responsible for 5% or more of their earnings. But the infrastructure needed to support AI and other resource-intensive...

Back when the public cloud was still in its infancy, it was common for organizations to feel trepidation about the security of their data and applications. 

It may seem counterintuitive that investing in the latest hardware can lead to reduced spending, but that’s exactly what can happen through proper optimization of your cloud environments.

When the public cloud first arrived on the scene, it wasn’t uncommon for enterprises to be hesitant about making the adoption. 

Speed and agility. These are often the driving forces behind an organization making the move to the cloud.The faster you can bring a new product to market in today’s business, the more likely you are...

Time and time again, I hear the frustration of our executive clients with the performance and speed of analytics and data departments. 

Data and analytics have always played a major role in business, but with more information now available to companies than ever before, how data is being used has shifted dramatically.

Companies today are often unaware of just how vulnerable they are to security risks.

The past couple years have highlighted the need for organizations to put in place processes that enable employees to work in a hybrid work-office environment.

Business intelligence (BI) used to be relatively straightforward. Number of products sold, price points relative to competitors, product returns, and so on.

The two main achievements of any analytical endeavor are solving problems and answering questions. 

As a leader in the public cloud space, Microsoft Azure has a massive amount of information available for both existing clients and organizations that are simply cloud curious. 

Companies that are able to unlock actionable insights from a steady stream of data are more secure and confident when it comes to remaining competitive.

In less than eight years, Kubernetes has become the predominant solution for software teams—and for a good reason. 

Organizations are increasingly adopting a hybrid cloud approach when it comes to data storage and utilization.

Edge computing comes in many flavors.

Many organizations are struggling with the management of IT during this time of supply chain challenges and talent shortages. 

According to a report from the Identity Theft Resource Center, the number of reported breaches in 2021 increased by 68 percent over the previous year. This made it a record year—albeit one not worth...

At Redapt, Cofounders Rick and David Cantu live and breathe technology, but soccer is in their blood. Professional and recreational soccer players and fans can be found throughout the Redapt...

When it comes to platforms for processing large amounts of data, two of the common choices for enterprises are Azure Synapse and Databricks. Since both are solid options, deciding on which to go with...

For many organizations, a critical step in achieving the agility necessary to remain competitive is adopting a hybrid cloud strategy.

Edge computing, the process of bringing compute and storage closer to where it’s needed, has some obvious benefits, including:

When it comes to deploying new infrastructure, making those deployments at the edge is an entirely different beast.

The ever-growing number of connected devices has created a tidal wave of unstructured data.

When it comes to adopting artificial intelligence (AI), it’s not uncommon for enterprises to struggle to determine exactly where to start.

The truth...

Data has always been a critical component of the financial industry.

Now that institutions have access to an unprecedented amount of information—and to tools that rapidly mine that information for...

Not all data is created equal.

Because of this, organizations face the challenge of ensuring the information they surface—and utilize for analytics is worthy of the expense of finding and storing it.

The GA release of Pivotal Container Service (PKS) by Pivotal, VMware, and Google Cloud was an interesting development in the cloud-native ecosystem. We go into more detail on how it changes the game...

From a high level, migrating to the cloud can seem deceptively simple. Take the data and applications you have on premises, then drop them into the cloud platform of your choice. Easy-peasy, right?

...

In this, the season of giving, we wanted to highlight some of the Pacific Northwest organizations we have supported over the past year in the hopes that you’ll join us in donating to their worthy...

In 1986, Tom M. Mitchell published this definition in his ground-breaking book Machine Learning:

There are a number of reasons why organizations refuse to move on from legacy applications. 

Comfort, longstanding reliance, fear of disruption—these are just some of the many reasons that can lead...

DevOps adoption promises to accelerate the process of developing code and features from design to production.

For many organizations, the cost of building out—or expanding—analytics capabilities can outweigh the benefits of the analytics itself.

In short order, artificial intelligence (AI) has dramatically altered companies across industries.

November marks a huge milestone for the Redapt team. It is the start of the team’s 25th year in business, and strong emotions bubble over as Co-Founders Rick and David Cantu reflect on what's been...

While all the major cloud providers offer the same baseline storage and ease of scale, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) has some unique characteristics to entice organizations.

One of those...

In the past few years, the major cloud providers have invested in products intended to promote the hybrid cloud approach. Think Google Anthos, Azure Arc, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)...

Enterprise technology is a big investment.

Beyond purchasing new hardware and software, you often need to spend a substantial amount of money on training or bringing expertise in-house.

Because of...

The retail experience has changed dramatically, with retailers everywhere rapidly evolving business and IT strategies to meet changing customer needs.

Once your enterprise has migrated to Google Cloud Platform (GCP), the work really begins.

When helping companies deploy their data for strategic advantage, our data and analytics teams routinely face an expanding volume of data coming in while simultaneously managing data going out to a...

Speed is the name of the game these days, especially when it comes to your organization’s ability to mine massive amounts of data for insights. The faster you can receive results from advanced...

In today’s competitive landscape, the ability to leverage data to quickly make informed decisions is critical. 

But that alone is not enough. 

In order to thrive, you also need to put data to work...

What’s the biggest roadblock organizations face when adopting Kubernetes?

The rise in popularity of machine learning (ML) is leading to an influx of newcomers to the technology. 

Many of these newcomers are under the assumption that an ML project is fairly straightforward...

“Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make because they lead little by little to the truth.”

This quote is from Jules Verne’s Journey to the Center of...

When an organization decides to adopt the cloud, it’s usually driven by the desire to hit three big goals: efficiency increased innovation, and cost savings.

Traditionally, business intelligence (BI) has focused on areas like supply chains and finance—niche subject areas that impact only a limited area of an organization.

Doing more with less. 

This is a goal for every business and one of the cornerstones of DevOps practices. More development, more deployments, more ways to meet the needs of your customers faster.

When it comes to taking the plunge with machine learning (ML), it’s not uncommon for enterprises to feel skittish about costs.

Beyond the investment in data scientists, the sheer horsepower necessary...

Going multi-cloud can bring a number of benefits. Chief among them is flexibility in running your workloads.

The most routine data science tasks don’t need the sheer horsepower that deep learning models provide.

But as enterprises start using larger data sets, there are a growing number of complex tasks...

In early 2020, when Oxford Economics and NTT DATA surveyed a thousand business leaders about their plans for adopting artificial intelligence (AI), 96% responded they were actively researching AI...

As more and more enterprises shift to DevOps, many of them quickly come to the realization that adopting a more agile approach to application development requires a fundamental change to their...

Enterprise data used to be relatively easy to govern.

Cost unpredictability is one of the main concerns for any organization moving to a cloud provider like Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Unlike capital investments for on-premises infrastructure, cloud...

According to a study from Algorithmia, more than 80% of enterprises have increased their artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML) budgets over the past year. 

It’s not uncommon for organizations that have migrated to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to encounter sticker shock.

After all, one of the major selling points of GCP—and all public clouds—is the...

In this post and video, we'll talk about some of the leading options for unstructured data management.

Machine learning (ML) provides you with powerful insights that allow you to derive new value, accomplish your missions, and gain a competitive edge.

Getting ML right, however, can be a challenge. In...

In the new era of Big Data, companies face a growing challenge: unstructured data. Forever expanding piles of documents, spreadsheets, presentations, emails, and other file-based data threaten to...

According to Axios, in 2018 alone, Americans spent an estimated $3.65 trillion on healthcare. For some context, that’s more than the total GDP of Brazil.

With costs continually increasing, healthcare...

Every time your organization brings on a new employee, there are high costs. You have to recruit, go through the interviewing and hiring process, then train and level up any skill gaps. 

This is...

The performance gains and efficiencies of moving to the cloud are clear. What is less clear is the best way to get there. Here are five common stumbling blocks to successful cloud migration. 

In a perfect world, integrating new enterprise infrastructure would be as simple as purchasing preconstructed hardware and plugging it into your datacenter of choice.

This post is a video and transcript featuring Redapt Senior Director and Practice Lead of Solutions Architects Jason Zeng and Director of Supply Chain and Operations Edward Egger.

A joke you've likely heard before: "80 percent of time is spent preparing data. The other 20 percent is spent complaining about preparing the data."

Perhaps no industry has been as radically transformed by the rise of the public cloud as software.

The transformation has been so quick, in fact, that Gartner predicts in 2022 alone, SaaS offerings...

It’s natural for businesses to try to save money by taking on their own system integration (SI). However, when companies try to do it all themselves, on-site, they’re often overwhelmed at how much...

When it comes to best practices with Kubernetes, whether it’s at the edge or not — but especially at the edge, considerations for organizations that are tackling this, there’s four major areas of...

You have started your journey toward the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), but how do you know if you’re on the right path? 

Advanced analytics capabilities like predictive analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) allow your organization to unlock insights, make smarter decisions, and fully...

All of us at Redapt are excited to announce that we’ve been named the Dell EMC FY21 North American Partner of the Year for Excellence in Services.

Analytics already plays a major role in business success, and that role is only growing over time. 

Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on August 14, 2019 and has been recently updated to include the latest insights and best practices.

Now that the enterprise cloud market has matured,...

It’s one of the ironies of business: the more popular your product becomes, the harder it is to keep up with demand.

Even products we don’t normally think of as dependent upon traditional logistics,...

Logging in to applications and systems can slow down your operations in surprising ways. Forgotten login IDs and passwords, recovering login information, adding and subtracting access to data and...

Organizations looking to gain speed and flexibility in how they create their applications require modern software development practices. These include things like Kubernetes, DevOps, and CI/CD, all...

The rise of edge computing that is, computing power that lives closer to the end-user is driving new ways for organizations to deliver the applications that power their business.

Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on May 6, 2020 and has been recently updated to include the latest insights and best practices.

Over the past year, the need to expand remote work capabilities has forced a great many enterprises to accelerate their cloud adoption plans.

Like any equipment used by your organization, your data needs to be maintained and kept in order.

Successful companies are able to utilize data in every segment of their organization. Not just in data science and traditional business intelligence, but areas like sales, supply chain management,...

Note: This post was originally published on March 19, 2020, and has been updated with new information.

Information, as they say, is power.

From November to December, DZone spoke with software developers, architects, and other IT professionals to better understand two distinct but highly interlinked topics—Edge computing and the Internet...

Finance operations and organizations have the exciting opportunity to use machine learning and advanced algorithms to improve forecasting supply chain and operating efficiencies. Watch our quick...

DZone has just released Kubernetes and the Enterprise, an analysis of their comprehensive 2020 survey. 

The ability to mine a steady flow of information from sources like connected devices, photographs and videos, and social media is providing companies with new insights and opportunities. It’s also...

Big things come in small packages, as they say, and when it comes to speeding up the process of developing and deploying applications, few tools are as powerful (or as easily overlooked) as...

Last summer, it was announced that SUSE would be acquiring Rancher Labs to create, as they call it, “the world’s largest organization exclusively dedicated to powering digital transformation with...

With the multi-cloud becoming increasingly popular among enterprises looking to achieve more flexibility while avoiding platform lock-in, robust infrastructure solutions geared toward multiple cloud...

As the availability and usage of data has exploded in recent years, many enterprises have struggled to fully leverage the amount of information they now have at their disposal.

It’s one thing to...

With more and more enterprises adopting the public cloud, it’s not uncommon for an organization to experience a bit of sticker shock when it comes to how much they’re spending on the cloud.

OEM appliances is key for ISVs who are looking for an alternative, better, way to go to market. Watch our interview with Jason Zeng to learn more.

Video. Social media. Chat bots. Websites. Slide decks. Video conferencing. All unstructured data. All a potentially major headache for an industry like yours that must store hundreds to thousands of...

Effectively putting data to work in your organization takes more than simply hiring data scientists to crank out models. 

All of us at Redapt would like to extend our appreciation to TimeXtender for recognizing Redapt as 2020 Fast Start Partner of the Year winner.

Independent software vendors (ISVs) often face a choice when it comes to releasing new products into the wild. They can simply make your software available for download to customers, or you can work...

As more and more enterprises are leaning into newer analytics technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), many are hitting a wall when it comes to effectively putting...

Data scientists may be on the front lines of enterprise data analytics but in today’s business, the organizations that thrive are using data throughout their ranks.

Editor's Note: This blog post was originally published on December 4, 2019 and was updated on February 11, 2021 to include the most relevant and up-to-date information.

For many companies, large and...

Editor's Note: This blog post was originally published on January 10, 2020 and was updated on February 9, 2021 to include the most relevant and up-to-date information.

While Kubernetes is changing...

Editor's Note: This blog post was originally published on October 14, 2019 and was updated on February 4, 2021 to include the most relevant and up-to-date information.

Scaling has always been a...

While 2020 didn’t bring major changes in on-premises data storage, many of the same challenges remain for enterprises. These challenges include:

As Kubernetes adoption continues to increase, the major cloud providers are investing heavily in providing customers with tools to easily manage containers on their platforms.

Now that 2020 is in the rearview mirror, we’re looking forward to things gradually returning to the new normal.

Before we focus on the coming months, however, we’d be remiss if we didn’t pause to...

Editor's Note: This blog post was originally published on October 10, 2018 and has been updated for the newest trends and information.

When we think of IoT devices, we reflexively think of our...

Public cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure deliver unprecedented flexibility for how enterprises work, utilize data, and deliver products. Due to their pricing model, however, it can be easy to lose...

Editor's Note: This blog post was originally published on July 2, 2018 and has been updated for the newest trends and information.

As retail patterns have had to pivot 360 degrees, with most...

Editor's Note: This blog post was originally published on September 5, 2019 and has been updated for the newest trends and information.

Companies are realizing more and more that the key to...

2020 has brought about a lot of changes—most of them unwelcome. For most businesses, one of those changes was the shift, almost overnight, to having a remote workforce. 

Redapt was one of them.

Every business has its own list of mundane tasks. Forms that need to be filled out, data that needs to be cataloged, calculations that need to be made, and so on. 

These tasks are not just...

Editor’s Note: This post was originally published in 2019 and has been updated with new information. 

It’s no secret there are substantial costs in running your own datacenter—both monetarily and for the environment.

For the good of the planet and your own bottom line, reducing these costs should be...

According to numbers compiled by Statista, prior to COVID-19, just 17% of U.S. employees worked from home five or more days a week. After the pandemic? The number shot up to 44%.

One of the biggest challenges enterprises faced in 2020 has been ensuring governance and security of data while rapidly scaling remote work capabilities.

Containers and microservices, well on their way to becoming a fundamental part of any organization’s DevOps and IT toolkit, have rapidly emerged as an answer to the question, “What are the next steps...

Bogged down by legacy applications but contemplating the cloud? You’re not alone. 

Pulling data shouldn’t be back-breaking work—weekend yard work already takes care of that. 

Disruption has always played a major role in business.

Data is just one of the common bottlenecks to artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) projects. An even bigger hurdle—one that trips up most enterprises—is actually putting AI and ML...

In business, the name of the game these days is adaptability.

In order to stay ahead of the competition, you need to be able to pivot along with customer behavior.

For many companies, this means...

Google has an innovative new program aimed at helping startups and other digital native companies successfully leverage the speed and flexibility of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for the deployment of...

Moving to the cloud can be intimidating and complex—especially when you’re faced with regulatory compliance requirements.

In this webinar, Redapt experts Paul Welch and Bryan Gilcrease discuss how the Redapt ML Accelerator can help your organization quickly get started on its ML (machine learning) journey.

The flood of data now available to enterprises is fueling a revolution in data science.

If your organization is struggling to effectively use data, chances are these are among the driving factors:

Proper governance of data has always been important. Now, with the dramatic increase in remote work, it’s absolutely critical.

When it comes to migrating to GCP or other cloud providers, you likely have two primary concerns: 

1. How much will it cost?
2. How big of a disruption will it be?

In music, The Edge is an incredible guitar player for U2.

In tech, it’s a powerful tool for real-time analytics, enhanced security, and the creation of innovative customer experiences at scale.

The numbers aren’t exactly encouraging.

According to some estimates, 90 percent of enterprise machine learning (ML) models never even make it to production.

Many large enterprises, SaaS, and hyperscale organizations continue to scale their datacenter infrastructure as demand increases for their services.

It’s no secret that 2020 was an especially challenging year and, as a recent article in Forbes points out, it’s leading to enterprises accelerating their cloud adoption.

Under normal conditions, deploying new datacenter infrastructure is  complicated. Supply chain management, scheduling, travel, installation—each of these steps to get new hardware up and running...

When it comes to modernizing SQL services, enterprises  generally react to two factors: 1) a dramatic increase in available data and data sources and 2) the need to create a dispersed workforce...

In the past five years alone, advanced analytics have been massively adopted across industries as businesses push to make smarter decisions more rapidly.

In this webinar, Redapt expert Matt Francis discusses how your enterprise can put in place systems that ensure your data is always backed up and protected.

More and more retail companies are leveraging IoT data to both enhance the customer experience and explore new ways to reach customers.

The retail customer experience has changed dramatically over the past few months, and retailers everywhere are rapidly evolving their business and IT strategies to meet customer needs better.

It’s a simple fact of business that no matter how streamlined you can get your supply chain, hiccups are going to happen. Even the OEMs you have the closest relationships with will encounter delays...

Even in normal times, datacenter deployments can be a complicated process. Supply chain management, scheduling, travel, installation—each of these steps often has their own unique challenges.

The datacenter cooling market is poised to grow past the $20 billion market size forecast in the next five years. Redapt has been monitoring liquid cooling trends for quite a few years and has...

Every organization looking to adopt the cloud eventually arrives at a point where a choice needs to be made: Which cloud provider do we go with?

Designing and delivering perfect racks has always been a collaborative effort, but with many datacenters still running on limited staffing—and travel still an unappetizing possibility for many...

The steady stream of unstructured data now available to enterprises has a potential negative side effect. Namely, the possibility of having too much data, which in turn makes it easy for that data to...

How ready is your business to adopt artificial intelligence (AI) quickly?

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, one of our customers was dramatically affected by the sudden influx of remote work.

Having a robust data protection and disaster recovery plan in place has never been more important for enterprises.

According to a recent report from McKinsey, in April alone, an estimated 62% of those employed in the United States had started working from home due to the pandemic. In comparison, that percentage...

One of the most important—and substantial—investments an enterprise needs to make is in data backup and recovery.

Together, They Will Enable Data Center Retrofits and Densification with High-Performance Chip Cooling Solutions at Scale.

Failures and disruptions are a question of when — not if. This means you need a rigorous and dependable data protection plan in place for the inevitable loss of data.

Even before words like “quarantine” and “pandemic” became a part of our daily vernacular, companies were already felt growing pressure to deliver new products and services as quickly as possible in...

The recent rise in remote work has cast a renewed focus on the critical need for data protection.

Among the list of challenges organizations often encounter when adopting advanced tools like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), one that can easily be overlooked is the need for...

Supporting the Black community is important to Redapt.“Fighting for marginalized groups has always been important to us,” says Co-Founder David Cantu. From the ongoing support of Seattle’s Year Up—a...

Designing enterprise infrastructure that fits the requirements of multiple teams for workload performance can be a challenge.

Every minute, trillions of bytes of data are being produced. The vast majority of this information is unstructured data—the product of an ever-increasing number of connected devices, photographs and...

The cloud delivers unprecedented scale and compute power. But in order to leverage these capabilities, organizations need to go about managing their data in the right way.

Migrating your enterprise data to the cloud requires a solid roadmap. You need to know what you’re trying to achieve from your migration, what your data sets look like, and how you’re going to ensure...

In this webinar, Redapt experts Amie Mason and Bryan Gilcrease discuss how your organization can unlock its data capital and adopt AI technology.

Machine learning (ML) is an idea that has taken the business world by storm in recent years. But for many enterprises, it has remained just that—an idea. In fact, by some estimates, 90% of ML models...

When organizations start kicking the tires of migrating to the cloud, it’s typical for current IT staff to approach the idea with skepticism. Not because they can’t see the very real benefits of...