Standard Robotic Control theory makes a distinction between reactive control, which is fast and simple, and predictive control, which is much smarter. Reactive control is designed to respond quickly to get you out of trouble, while predictive control is designed to understand exactly what you are trying to accomplish, and provide precise actions to enable …

Optimal Infrastructure Control is both Predictive & Realtime Read More »

As organizations move to host their application workloads across private, public and hybrid clouds, the question of where to host workloads, what kind of infrastructure resource is required, and how much to buy is rapidly becoming more complex. This reality, and the need to make safe and optimal hosting decisions regardless of where workloads are …

IT is now the cloud broker. Here are 3 priorities for doing it well. Read More »

In my blog post Best Practices for Cloud Migration: How to get it right I laid out a four-step process for migrating application workloads to a hybrid cloud, using analytics to optimize decisions. In this post, I will focus on the critical first step in that process: determining which workloads are good candidates for the …

Best Practices for Cloud Migration: Step One is Qualifying Candidates Read More »

Mary Johnston Turner Research Vice President, IDC Research Andrew HillierCTO, Densify IDC’s research shows the majority of today’s enterprise class organizations expect to rely on multiple clouds. Organizations need to make this transition in a way that maintains control over their applications, constantly optimizes the capacity being purchased, and doesn’t inadvertently create operational silos. Mary …

IDC joins Densify to examine the role of Hybrid Capacity Analytics in Multicloud Strategies Read More »

Whenever there is a disruption in the world of IT infrastructure, it isn’t clear how existing teams, tools and processes will make the transition. There is always a tendency to think, at least initially, that new technologies will make exiting problems go away, but in reality these problems often just change form. And for every …

Why Capacity Control is Essential in Hybrid Cloud Environments Read More »

The question of whether to migrate enterprise applications to the cloud is not so easily answered for most organizations. The complexity of determining which applications should go, what resources are required, which hosting platforms and models are best, which are the most cost effective options all while maintaining security, scalability and performance creates anxiety and …

EMA joins Densify to evaluate How Analytics Address the Biggest Challenges in Public Cloud Adoption Read More »

So you’ve decided to go with a hybrid cloud approach, splitting workloads among on-premises VMware or Hyper-V virtual infrastructure and public cloud platforms. Do it right and you can get the benefits you’re looking for of increasing agility while removing the burden of managing servers. But get the mix wrong and you could end up …

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