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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. 

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.

According to numbers compiled by Statista, in 2019 alone more than 160 million records were exposed through data breaches in the United States.

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...

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.

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.

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...

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?

Hybrid cloud storage provides your organization with options.

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...

Managing multiple Kubernetes clusters on premises or in the hybrid cloud can be a logistical nightmare.

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.

We are excited to announce that Redapt's Managed Services Provider (MSP) program is now accredited by Google Cloud.

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.

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.

Traditionally, business intelligence (BI) has focused on areas such as supply chain or finances—niche subject areas poised to impact a handful of organizations.

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. 

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...

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

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.

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.

...

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. 

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...

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.

Risk management is all about planning for the expected unexpected.

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...

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...

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...

When adopting Kubernetes in your enterprise, the rule of thumb should be to walk before you run.

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

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

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...

Due to the mass proliferation of connected devices, the fastest growing resource for enterprises is unstructured data.

In the enterprise space, there’s nothing quite like Google Anthos.

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...

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

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.

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.

Enterprises are changing the way they use technology in order to respond to increasing competition.

Business intelligence, advanced analytics, machine learning—each requires a robust data platform to be effective.

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.

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.

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...

Robots are coming for your money.

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...

Red Hat OpenShift is an enterprise-ready Kubernetes platform for deploying applications in hybrid cloud environments.

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...

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...

From automation and data analysis to internal communications and customer service, adopting artificial intelligence (AI) into your enterprise can enhance your entire operation.

If you’re looking to unlock new avenues of efficiency and provide better products and services to customers, advanced data analytics is your answer.

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...

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:

80% of time is spent preparing data, the other 20% is spent complaining about preparing the data.

Your enterprise has a large amount of data, with more and more coming in every second of every day.

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...

In short order, Kubernetes has become the predominant development platform.

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.

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...

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...

One key to application modernization is moving from VMs for development to containers and Kubernetes.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has graduated from buzzword to technical reality. For many enterprises, however, large hurdles remain in actually adopting AI into their businesses.

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...

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...

As technology continues to advance, traditional business models are falling in its wake.

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...

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...

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, ...

App innovation is about leveraging the cloud in order to create efficiencies and better service to customers.

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.

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.

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...

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.

Google Anthos is a hybrid cloud platform with the power to give your enterprise the speed and flexibility you need to stay competitive.

High-performance AI is the key to unlocking insights and opportunities in data-intensive environments.

While most cloud providers offer similar products and services, each has its own unique tools that play well with its model.

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...

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...

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

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.

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...

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...

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

Last month, a release on Business Wire caught our eye. Here’s how it starts, emphasis ours:

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...

If your company is increasingly relying on Big Data, you’ve probably encountered issues with managing all the information in your various workloads.

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.

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.

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,...

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...

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

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.

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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.

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....

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.

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...

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...

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.

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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.

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.

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.

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...