It’s the holiday season, and one IT wish list item may be cloud control and confidence. There’s a whole new crop of companies offering cloud management and governance services to ease the adoption and maintenance of cloud. There are a lot of challenges to getting the best value out of cloud, like security, multi-cloud management and end-to-end visibility.
This time of year is ideal for eating a lot and finding out where your gifts are hidden around the house. Soon enough, though, it’ll be resolution time when the new year arrives and you take stock of your big-picture goals for 2017. We hear a lot about «digital transformation» and modernizing IT, which can seem like awfully lofty goals. What’s the actual day-to-day plan? What are the actions IT teams, managers and CIOs can take to make sure they’re improving upon their current technologies and processes?