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How To Bring Your ISV Application To The Cloud
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,...

Benefits And Best Practices for SSO Implementation
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...

How Enterprises Can Speed Up Application Development with the Pod Model
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...

How Edge Is Driving Demand for System Integration Services
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.

AI & Analytics While Ensuring Data Privacy, Compliance, and Security
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.

Building a Solid Cloud Adoption Framework for 2021
Over the past year, the need to expand remote work capabilities has forced a great many enterprises to accelerate their cloud adoption plans.

Best Practices for Good Data Hygiene and Pipelines
Like any equipment used by your organization, your data needs to be maintained and kept in order.

Infographic: How To Make Data A Competitive Advantage
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,...

The Key Difference Between Business Intelligence and Advanced Analytics
Note: This post was originally published on March 19, 2020, and has been updated with new information.
Information, as they say, is power.

Edge Computing and IoT: A DZone Report
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...

Video: Improving Financial Performance With Unstructured Data
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...

Speed to Market with Kubernetes: A DZone Report
DZone has just released Kubernetes and the Enterprise, an analysis of their comprehensive 2020 survey.

The Pros & Cons of Top Unstructured Data Storage Solutions
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...

How Kubernetes Pods Help Streamline App Development and Deployment
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...

Continuing Our Strong Partnership with SUSE
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...

3 Reasons Why Dell EMC's PowerScale is Key For Unstructured Data
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...

How Managed Analytics Services Is Key to Getting Insights from Data Quickly
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...

How to Avoid Runaway Cloud Costs
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.

What Challenges Do Appliances Solve For The ISV?
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.

Managing On-Premises Unstructured Data in a Cloud-Centric World
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...

Why You Need a Data Maturity Model
Effectively putting data to work in your organization takes more than simply hiring data scientists to crank out models.

TimeXtender Awards Fast Start Partner of the Year Award to Redapt
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.

OEM Appliances: What They Are, When They Make Sense
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...

Bridging the Gap Between IT and Data Science
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...

Want to Gain a Competitive Edge? Boost Your Organization’s Data Literacy
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.
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How to Choose a Public Cloud App Modernization Partner
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...

Building Cloud-Native Applications with Red Hat OpenShift
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...

3 Cloud Native Trends to Scale Your Enterprise Cheaper, Better, Faster
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...

5 On-Premises Data Storage Trends We See for 2021
While 2020 didn’t bring major changes in on-premises data storage, many of the same challenges remain for enterprises. These challenges include:

Is Amazon EKS Distribution Right For Your Enterprise? That Depends on What You’re Trying to Achieve
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.

Enterprise Technology Trends for 2021 and Beyond
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...

How to Achieve Innovation in IoT
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...

Infographic: How to Govern and Manage Cloud Costs
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...

Maximizing Your Retail Business with Advanced Analytics
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...

Leveraging Big Data To Unlock Your Data Capital
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: The Year of Remote Work Culture
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.

The Quiet Power of Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
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...

What Is App Modernization and Why Does Your Business Need It?
Editor’s Note: This post was originally published in 2019 and has been updated with new information.

Is Your Remote Work Strategy Bulletproof?
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%.

Using Windows Virtual Desktop to Ensure Data Governance and Security
One of the biggest challenges enterprises faced in 2020 has been ensuring governance and security of data while rapidly scaling remote work capabilities.

Driving Digital Transformation: 4 Questions to Ask When Considering Containers and Microservices
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...

Top 3 Considerations When Migrating an Existing Application to the Cloud
Bogged down by legacy applications but contemplating the cloud? You’re not alone.

When Does Managed Analytics Make Sense?
Pulling data shouldn’t be back-breaking work—weekend yard work already takes care of that.

How to Successfully Challenge Your Industry's Status Quo
Disruption has always played a major role in business.

Common AI/ML Performance Bottlenecks...And How to Solve Them
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...

Navigating the Choppy Seas of Digital Transformation
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 Cloud for Startups
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...

How to Keep Bad Actors at Bay in the Cloud
Moving to the cloud can be intimidating and complex—especially when you’re faced with regulatory compliance requirements.

Watch The Webinar: The Redapt ML Accelerator
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.

How to Get More from Data Science
The flood of data now available to enterprises is fueling a revolution in data science.

Building a Modern Data Platform on GCP
If your organization is struggling to effectively use data, chances are these are among the driving factors:

5 Important Cloud Governance Disciplines Your Business Must Consider
Proper governance of data has always been important. Now, with the dramatic increase in remote work, it’s absolutely critical.

Why Moving Application Server Workloads to GCP Is Easier Than Ever
When it comes to migrating to GCP or other cloud providers, you likely have two primary concerns:
- How much will it cost?
- How big of a disruption will it be?

New eBook: The Dynamics Around Scaling the Edge
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.

What Is a Machine Learning Accelerator?
The numbers aren’t exactly encouraging.
According to some estimates, 90 percent of enterprise machine learning (ML) models never even make it to production.

How We Streamlined Datacenter Infrastructure Deployments Utilizing the ServiceNow Platform
Many large enterprises, SaaS, and hyperscale organizations continue to scale their datacenter infrastructure as demand increases for their services.

2021 Trends for Enterprise Cloud Adoption
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.

The Value of Rack Integration
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...

Basic Planning Around Modernizing Enterprise SQL Services
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...

Designing Infrastructure to Leverage Compute and Storage for Data Analytics
In the past five years alone, advanced analytics have been massively adopted across industries as businesses push to make smarter decisions more rapidly.

Best Practices for Enterprise Network Security in 2020 and Beyond
According to numbers compiled by Statista, in 2019 alone more than 160 million records were exposed through data breaches in the United States.

Watch The Webinar: Identifying & Developing a Data Storage Protection System
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.

New White Paper: Adapting Retail Edge to IoT Data Collection
More and more retail companies are leveraging IoT data to both enhance the customer experience and explore new ways to reach customers.

Mojix’s Edge-to-Cloud Solution Managed by Redapt Revolutionizes Digital Transformation for Retailers and Their 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.

How to Solve Your OEM Lead Time Headaches
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...

Why Rack Integration Services Are More Important Than Ever
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.

Tech We Like: Efficient Datacenter Cooling with ZutaCore
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...

What to Look for When Evaluating Cloud Providers for Your Organization
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?

The Value of a First Article
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...

How to Clean Up Your Data Storage When You Have Too Much
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...

New Resource: Designing High-Performance Data Infrastructure for AI
How ready is your business to adopt artificial intelligence (AI) quickly?

A Prime Example of a Large Scale Deployment (And Best Practices)
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, one of our customers was dramatically affected by the sudden influx of remote work.

Get Your Data in Order with Our Free eBook
Having a robust data protection and disaster recovery plan in place has never been more important for enterprises.

How the Shift to Remote Work Has Impacted Data Security Governance
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...

The Business Benefits of Data Backup & Recovery
One of the most important—and substantial—investments an enterprise needs to make is in data backup and recovery.

Redapt and ZutaCore Partner for Pre-Configured, Tested and Warrantied Data Center Solutions Across HPC Stacks
Together, They Will Enable Data Center Retrofits and Densification with High-Performance Chip Cooling Solutions at Scale.

Is Your Data Secure? The 3 Stages of Data Protection Maturity
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.

Why DevOps Is Now More Important Than Ever
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...

Tech We Like: Dell EMC’s Data Protection Portfolio
The recent rise in remote work has cast a renewed focus on the critical need for data protection.

High-Performance Networking to Support Critical Workloads for AI and ML
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...

Redapt Stands in Solidarity with the Black Community
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...

The Keys to Designing Dynamic Infrastructure for Workload Performance
Designing enterprise infrastructure that fits the requirements of multiple teams for workload performance can be a challenge.

The Key to Unlocking the Value of Your Unstructured Data
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...

Want to Save IT Costs? Take a Look at How You Handle Your Data
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.

Tech We Like: Tools for Data Migration to Google Cloud
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...

Watch the Webinar: Taking the Leap into AI
In this webinar, Redapt experts Amie Mason and Bryan Gilcrease discuss how your organization can unlock its data capital and adopt AI technology.

Get to Know the Redapt ML Accelerator
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...

Migrating to the Cloud? You’ll Need These 4 Roles on Your Modern Data Team
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...

Webinar Video: Building a Modern Analytics Platform with Google Cloud and Redapt
In this webinar, Redapt Google Cloud Architect, Christof von Rabenau, discusses how your enterprise can build a modern data platform in order to leverage advanced analytics capabilities.

Webinar Video: Making a Cost-Effective Transition to the Cloud

The Best Options for Scaling Environments for High Performance Workloads
It has been estimated that the amount of data that has been created in the past two years is more than all previous years combined.

What to Look For in a Managed Services Provider
This post was originally published on November 14, 2018 and has since been updated on June 18, 2020 for relevance.
Many organizations are struggling with the management of their IT during this new...

4 Top Tools for Managing Kubernetes Clusters
As adoption of Kubernetes continues to grow, one question many enterprise CIOs ask is which tools are available to help them implement and manage their Kubernetes clusters effectively?

Is Hybrid Cloud Storage Right for You? Here’s What to Consider
Hybrid cloud storage provides your organization with options.

Making a Smarter Transition to the Google Cloud Platform
Efficiencies and cost savings. These are often two big reasons why organizations consider adopting the cloud.
Considering and actively doing are two different things, however. Let’s take a look at...

Looking at Google Anthos? Here Are 3 Great Use Cases
Managing multiple Kubernetes clusters on premises or in the hybrid cloud can be a logistical nightmare.

Webinar: Deploying Managed Kubernetes with Dell EMC and Google Anthos
In this webinar, Redapt experts Vishnu Arunachalam and Matt Francis discuss how your enterprise can leverage Kubernetes on-premises or in the hybrid cloud with Dell EMC and Google Anthos.

Breaking: Redapt’s MSP Program Now Accredited by Google Cloud
We are excited to announce that Redapt's Managed Services Provider (MSP) program is now accredited by Google Cloud.

Understanding Google Cloud’s Data Platform Solutions
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) may have been one of the last major entrants into the enterprise cloud space, but that doesn’t mean they’re lagging behind the competitors.

Machine Learning Workloads: On-Premises vs. the Cloud
Unlocking the very real benefits of machine learning (ML) comes at a cost, with high-performance GPUs and storage being at the top of the list of expenses.

Turning Data into Actionable Insights with a Modern Data Platform
Traditionally, business intelligence (BI) has focused on areas such as supply chain or finances—niche subject areas poised to impact a handful of organizations.

Why We Like Isilon Cloud OneFS + Google Cloud
Many organizations are quick to grasp the benefits of a cloud-based solution for data management. However, you may not consider how that data is stored.

How Outsourcing Cloud Operations Can Lower Your Operational and IT Costs
As COVID-19 has rapidly destabilized businesses across the nation, business leaders are questioning how they can ensure resilience in the face of continuing uncertainty to protect the business...

A Critical Aspect of Day 2 Kubernetes Operations
Kubernetes is widely known as a go-to solution for managing, automating, and scaling containers—with one caveat: "Day 2" can be painful.

DevOps and Doing More with Less
One of the more consistent complaints we hear from CTOs and others in technology leadership is their failure to realize expected results from digital transformation efforts.

How a Managed Services Provider Can Improve Business Continuity
Managed services providers (MSPs) offer large and small companies alike cost-effective access to new technologies, due to economies of scale and their ability to keep up to date with best practices.
...

Adopting Cloud Native? Here’s 3 Questions You Need to Answer Beforehand
First, you crawl, then you walk, then you run.
This should be a mantra for every organization looking to adopt new technologies—especially when it comes to cloud-native adoption.

What Is Data Capital and Why Is It Important?
Data is an asset, just like corporate employees or organizational tools. As with any asset, data has an inherent value—but technology and talent must be applied for the organization to realize the...

5 Benefits of an Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Strategy & How To Develop One
More than ever, agility is a key component of enterprise success. For many organizations, adopting a hybrid cloud strategy is a critical step to achieving that agility.

How Predictive Analytics Can Help Businesses Through Times of Uncertainty
Risk management is all about planning for the expected unexpected.

5 Business Cases for Developing an AI Strategy Today
In today’s economy, every organization has access to a steady flow of data. Thriving businesses utilize that information not just to make smarter decisions, but to help tackle challenges they are...

Healthcare Professionals Turn to Health Bots for Help Through COVID-19
As the number of cases of the coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to rise across the globe, so do the number of phone calls to healthcare providers. Health professionals everywhere are scrambling to...

New Release: COVID-19 Power BI Report Template
As we continue to work closely with our clients to provide the necessary support for their digital transformation during this pandemic, we realize the need for up-to-date, localized, and...

5 Keys to Successfully Launch an Enterprise Kubernetes Service
When adopting Kubernetes in your enterprise, the rule of thumb should be to walk before you run.

A Scaling Solution for Enterprises
With the explosion in unstructured data, enterprises have more information than ever at their disposal to make smart decisions.

Making the Move to Microservices
The rise of modern development practices—microservices, DevOps, containers, et al.—has dramatically changed how applications are designed, developed, and delivered.

5 Best Practices for Managing Kubernetes Clusters in Your Datacenter
For enterprises dependent upon on-premises datacenters, effectively managing development clusters with Kubernetes has its own challenges. While these challenges can certainly be overcome, not...

How to Optimize Your Data Storage While Reducing Costs
Due to the mass proliferation of connected devices, the fastest growing resource for enterprises is unstructured data.

How Google Anthos Is Making Enterprises as Agile as Startups
In the enterprise space, there’s nothing quite like Google Anthos.

Business Continuity Through COVID-19
As our world navigates the uncertainties around the global COVID-19 pandemic, we continue to stress the importance of health collectively.
We're in this together, and the Redapt team is committed to...

How Kubernetes Won the Container War
Earlier this month, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) released the results of its CNCF Survey for 2019. Some of those results included:

What IT Leaders Must Do to Succeed with AI, ML, and Analytics
A few months ago, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania published the article Four Ways Leaders Can Gain Value from AI and Advanced Analytics.

How Healthcare Enterprises Are Leveraging Predictive Analytics
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.

Build Your Own DevOps Environment or Use a Pre-Integrated Tool Set?
Enterprises are changing the way they use technology in order to respond to increasing competition.

How to Build a Successful Data Analytics Platform
Business intelligence, advanced analytics, machine learning—each requires a robust data platform to be effective.

3 Examples of Enterprises That Have Run Kubernetes on OpenShift
Kubernetes rules the roost when it comes to the modern development of applications. But for many enterprises, adopting it comes with a steep learning curve and requires new technical skills.

A Guide to the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and Dell EMC Infrastructure
Red Hat’s enterprise-ready Kubernetes platform, OpenShift, has been designed to provide companies with the speed and power of cloud-based development on premises and in the cloud.

3 Key Areas Where Enterprises Often Fail at Hybrid Cloud Implementation
Moving to a hybrid cloud solution can offer a number of benefits for your enterprise. These include the ability to shift workloads that burst in usage to the cloud, ease of scalability, and...

Where Will Artificial Intelligence Take Enterprises in 5 Years?
Robots are coming for your money.

3 Inspiring Examples of AI in the Retail Industry
As artificial intelligence (AI) solutions become more prevalent in business, it’s worth taking a look at how the technology is already helping to reshape the retail industry.
To that end, here are...

A Closer Look at the OpenShift Platform Architecture
Red Hat OpenShift is an enterprise-ready Kubernetes platform for deploying applications in hybrid cloud environments.

How Growing Businesses Should Address Machine Learning Bias
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) continue to make their way into more and more enterprises, it’s worth examining the trends that are shaping data analytics and how those...

Evaluating the Top 3 Solutions for Managing Containerized Microservices
When it comes to managing containerized microservices, there are basically three big dogs currently leading the pack. Each of them has their own benefits, from the ability to streamline workflows to...

3 Tools To Help Your Enterprise With AI Adoption
From automation and data analysis to internal communications and customer service, adopting artificial intelligence (AI) into your enterprise can enhance your entire operation.

3 Insightful Examples of Enterprise Data Analytics Management Done Right
If you’re looking to unlock new avenues of efficiency and provide better products and services to customers, advanced data analytics is your answer.

Tech We Like: Data Warehousing Solutions
Proper data warehousing is the key to unlocking advanced insights in large amounts of data. With so many tools and platforms available, finding the right one to fit your unique needs and problems can...

How To Get Your Enterprise Ready For AI Adoption
As we’ve covered in a recent blog post, more and more enterprises are adopting AI in some form or fashion. In general, there are four reasons why:

Getting Your Data Ready to Leverage the Benefits of Machine Learning
80% of time is spent preparing data, the other 20% is spent complaining about preparing the data.

How to Start Leveraging Large Amounts of Data Faster and More Effectively
Your enterprise has a large amount of data, with more and more coming in every second of every day.

Managing ML Workflows with Advanced Data on Kubeflow
Arrikto, a Palo Alto startup that focuses on cloud-native storage, recently held a webinar walking participants through a demonstration of how multi-cloud Machine Learning (ML) workflows can be...

Managing Containers on OpenShift vs. Open-Source Kubernetes
In short order, Kubernetes has become the predominant development platform.

Your Cloud Native Journey: An Infographic
Migrating to cloud native apps doesn’t need to be disruptive to your business. In this guide to cloud native we detail the journey from picking your cloud provider, cloud type, and the benefits...

Why CDOs with a Large Amount of Data Often Keep It On-Premises
The cloud is quickly becoming the solution of choice for enterprises looking to store and access their data. The reasons are compelling: lower costs, more flexibility, ability to scale quickly.

Understanding the Future of AI for Enterprises in 2020
As enterprises dive into AI adoption, it is critical that they understand industry trends. The recent Forbes article, Top Artificial Intelligence (AI) Predictions for 2020 from IDC and Forrester...

Utilizing Vault by HashiCorp to Navigate CCPA Challenges
On the first of January 2020, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) went into effect, placing new burdens on organizations that do business in or with residents of California. Which means a...

Transitioning From VMs to Containers and Kubernetes with Google Anthos
One key to application modernization is moving from VMs for development to containers and Kubernetes.

What’s Holding Back Enterprises from Adopting AI?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has graduated from buzzword to technical reality. For many enterprises, however, large hurdles remain in actually adopting AI into their businesses.

Why Migrating to the Cloud Will Enhance Your Advanced Analytics
If data is the currency of today’s enterprises, analytics is the key to unlocking access to that currency. Without accurate analytics, data is just dormant information—useless, wasted, and needlessly...

5 Mistakes To Avoid In a Cloud Native App Development Project
As your enterprise migrates to the cloud, developing cloud native apps will likely be at the top of the list of your projects. Whether you’re doing the work in-house or with a partner, these are the...

Why Every Company Is a Tech Company and What You Can Do About It
As technology continues to advance, traditional business models are falling in its wake.

The Edge and The Cloud
Edge computing comes in many flavors, but in basic terms it’s about pushing computing power closer to where it’s actually being used by the end user. Cellular technology on towers and infrastructure...

Getting Ahead of the Curve With Governance Security
As a leader in the public cloud space, Microsoft Azure has a plethora of information available for clients and the curious. One of our favorites is the Standard Enterprise Governance Guide, a...

4 Major Components to Artificial Intelligence That Are Easy to Get Wrong
From chatbots to fraud detection to remote resource monitoring, enterprises are increasingly adopting artificial intelligence (AI). But while it can be tempting to jump right into the game, ...

Transforming The Healthcare Industry Through App Innovation
App innovation is about leveraging the cloud in order to create efficiencies and better service to customers.

Modernizing an Existing App vs. Developing a Cloud Native App
When you commit to migrating your enterprise to the cloud, you face a decision whether to modernize your existing applications or develop cloud native apps.

3 Questions To Ask Before Getting Started With Google Anthos
If you’re looking for a hybrid cloud solution for your enterprise, Google Anthos gives you all the flexibility and scalability you need to manage workloads across a range of platforms.

3 Common Misconceptions CIOs and CTOs Have About Google Anthos
We’ve recently written about how Anthos, Google’s open application modernization platform, is a game-changer for enterprises utilizing a multi-cloud environment.
In this post, we’re addressing three...

The Best Tools For Deploying Cloud Native Applications On-Premises
Maybe you’re deploying cloud-native tech stacks on-premises because you’ve reached a size where utilizing the public cloud is no longer cost-effective.

Why Google Anthos Is a Multi-Cloud Gamechanger for Enterprises
Google Anthos is a hybrid cloud platform with the power to give your enterprise the speed and flexibility you need to stay competitive.

Configuring Your Data Storage for High-Performance AI
High-performance AI is the key to unlocking insights and opportunities in data-intensive environments.

Tech We Like: Tools That Work Well with Microsoft Azure
While most cloud providers offer similar products and services, each has its own unique tools that play well with its model.

How to Balance Enterprise Agility and Speed with Governance and Security
Agility and speed are the secrets to staying competitive. Maintaining governance and security are the costs of doing business. The question is: How do you achieve both?
Basically, it comes down to...

6 Questions to Ask Before Deploying Cloud-Native On-Premises
Going cloud native isn’t something you want to jump into. Before going through the expense and effort, you need to make sure your enterprise is in the best position to actually benefit from the...

The Simple Guide To Crafting a Multi-Cloud Strategy
Going multi-cloud can bring a number of benefits. Chief among them is flexibility in running your workloads.

Why 90% of Machine Learning Models Never Make it to Production
There’s a lot of potential in Machine Learning (ML). Unfortunately, there are also a number of obstacles companies hit when it comes to realizing that potential.

4 Elements of a Sustainable Datacenter (Beyond Power and Cooling)
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...

Navigating The Challenges of Transitioning Data Workloads To The Cloud
The idea of moving data workloads to the cloud can be daunting, especially if your company has always relied upon on-premises solutions.
Why? Because while the end goals of utilizing data may be the...

Debunking Myths Around The Power of Cloud-Native in Edge Computing
Edge computing is the process of bringing compute and storage closer to where it’s needed. This has some obvious benefits, including:

Rancher 2.3 Brings Kubernetes Benefits to Microsoft Windows Applications
Last month, a release on Business Wire caught our eye. Here’s how it starts, emphasis ours:

How Microservices Can Impact Your Business
If your company is still shackled to the traditional development cycle, microservices can help break you free and provide better outcomes for your customers.
With microservices, updates and new...

Tech We Like: Managing Big Data with Azure Databricks and Unravel
If your company is increasingly relying on Big Data, you’ve probably encountered issues with managing all the information in your various workloads.

5 Key Considerations for Enterprises Exploring the Public Cloud
Companies that embrace the public cloud are able to unlock a number of benefits, from cost-savings and flexibility, to accelerated development cycles and deployment.

How to Orchestrate and Monitor Containers and Microservices
It used to be that working on monolithic applications was a tedious process, vulnerable to catastrophic crashes that made an entire application inoperable for an extended period of time.

3 Challenges To Consider Before Moving Your Workloads On-Premises
There are good reasons for a company to repatriate application workloads from public cloud to on-premises or co-location datacenters. Often, exploring cost savings is a driving factor. Most often,...

Building A Simple Big Data & Artificial Intelligence Roadmap
Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) can help companies unlock entire new ways to analyze and put to work massive amounts of data.
They can also be intimidating for a company to approach, given...

3 Revenue Opportunities Machine Learning has Unlocked In 2020
In 1986, Tom M. Mitchell published this definition in his ground-breaking book Machine Learning:

The Best 4 Tools for Container Monitoring & Management
When a company reaches a certain scale, keeping hundreds and even thousands of containers and their microservices seamlessly talking to one another can be a very big lift.

Tech We Like: Rack Integration & Services
When it comes to our recommendations for rack integration and services, we’re rather agnostic because we want to recommend technology that works best for your goals since much of it depends on what...

How Growing Datacenters Impact the Environment — and Your Business
Datacenters are not exactly friends of the environment.
Power, cooling, hardware transportation and logistics — the sheer amount of resources necessary to keep the lights on and the servers cooled is...

Understanding the Risks of Implementing Cloud Native Solutions
One of the major fears we’ve heard from customers looking to take the plunge into deploying cloud-native solutions on-premises is whether doing so will double their operations costs.

Building the Case for Hybrid for Hyperscale and SaaS
In recent years, there’s been a growing trend for organizations that were born in the cloud to build their own on-premises infrastructure.
This might seem counterintuitive, given the relative ease...

How To Make Management Care About Modernization
Convincing management to take on the effort and expense of modernizing an organization’s applications portfolio can be a tough sell. As an article from Gartner titled “How to Build a Business Case...

The Biggest Trends in Cloud Technology We’re Seeing for 2020
As part of our commitment to providing technical clarity for our clients, we monitor and research trends in cloud technology to identify the ones you should care about moving forward.

Case Study: Taking a SaaS Provider’s Infrastructure Global
When a large SaaS provider wanted help handling the logistics and labor associated with deploying enterprise infrastructure at scale in geographically dispersed locations, they partnered with Redapt...

3 Steps to Determining the Requirements for Your Datacenter
Building out your datacenter is about more than simply doing rack and stack. Without having a firm grasp of your needs, you risk blindly throwing money at the project and the very real potential...

Tech We Like: App Innovation Acceleration
These days, there are more tools than ever at the disposal of app developers. So many, in fact, that it can be hard to keep track of what they all are, what they do, and which ones are a cut above.

What Cloud Native Infrastructure Means for Fast-Scaling Businesses
Last April, Dell EMC caused a stir by announcing a new service aimed at making the buying, installing, and usage of new servers on-premises as similar as possible to spinning up VM’s in the cloud....

What To Expect When Deploying Datacenter Infrastructure At Scale
There are many reasons why a company would want to have its own on-premises infrastructure. If your organization is considering doing so, there are two questions you should ask first.

Our Picks: Top 4 Kubernetes Platforms for Modern Datacenters
At Redapt, we try to remain relatively tech agnostic. Every client we work with has specific needs, and those needs often require an array of technical skills, infrastructure, and tools.
With that...

The Fearless Way to Migrate Your Data to The Cloud
Data is more valuable than ever. So when companies look to migrate to the cloud, it makes sense that some may be apprehensive. To ease the nerves, we'll explain the safe and fearless way to migrate...

Managing Big Data Projects Beyond Hadoop
For more than 10 years, Hadoop has been the go-to solution for building out a scalable data processing framework to support extremely large data workloads.

The Key to Turning Data Into Action
Everyone talks about data. Companies want it, but do they really understand its value? Managers and executives can easily get distracted by metrics that don’t actually move the needle.
However, from...

What is App Modernization and Why Does Your Business Need It?
It seems like every week there are new buzzwords and phrases around business IT that make it hard to know what's valuable to your business. App modernization is one that’s easily lost in the fray,...

Data Strategies That Lead To High-Performing AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a powerful tool that can be leveraged to extract insights from massive amounts of data.
But to take advantage of this, your data must be structured so that AI can...

How To Find The Right Data Infrastructure Modernization Partner
Modern datacenters provide companies with the flexibility and capacity they need to effectively utilize the sheer amount of data being produced every day.
Making an investment in modernizing data...

Our Picks: Best Data Storage Solutions for Enterprises in 2020
The sheer number of data storage solutions currently on the market can be overwhelming. Finding what your organization needs — and ignoring what it doesn’t — is time-consuming and resource-intensive.

How On-Site Kubernetes Works to Improve Your IT Security
Originally developed by Google, Kubernetes (or K8s) are now the standard for container orchestration, supported by everyone from AWS and Azure, to Cisco, IBM, and VMware.

How Data Storage Fits Into Your Technology Strategy
The following is an excerpt from our recent white paper, A Strategic Approach to Data Storage: How Your Organization Can Leverage Big Data. You can download the full white paper here.

Want to Prevent Ransomware? Invest in Proper Data Storage
Ransomware is not a new problem. The first known piece of ransomware, named PC Cyborg, was spread to AIDS researchers by a fellow biologist. Victims in the early ‘10s would receive packages claiming...