Densify Blog
Lowering Public Cloud Cost without Loading Up on Risk
Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) research shows that approximately 50% of public cloud customers are complaining about significant cost overruns in their monthly public cloud bills. 36% indicate that they only have an incomplete understanding of public cloud...
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Cloud Optimization Done for You
Today’s news of our rebrand to Densify™ and unveiling of our analytics service for optimizing cloud, marks an inflection point not only for our company but the industry. It signifies more than a new approach for reducing cloud and infrastructure costs while also...
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Optimal Infrastructure Control is both Predictive and Real-Time
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...
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IT is now the “cloud broker.” Here are 3 priorities for doing it well.
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...
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Best Practices for Cloud Migration: Step One is Qualifying Candidates Part 2 of a 5 part series.
It is surprising how many organizations either skip this step entirely or use rudimentary tools that do not perform the detailed analysis required to do this right. You might get lucky some of the time but rest assured, if something goes wrong, whoever performs this critical task will get all the blame.
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IDC joins Densify.com to examine the role of Hybrid Capacity Analytics in Multi-Cloud Strategies
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...
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Why Capacity Control is Essential in Hybrid Cloud Environments
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...
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EMA joins Densify.com to evaluate How Analytics Address the Biggest Challenges in Public Cloud Adoption
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...
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Best Practices For Cloud Migration: How to get it right Part 1 of a 5 part series.
So you’ve decided to go with a hybrid cloud approach, splitting workloads among on-premise 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 with a lot of expensive unused capacity on your data center floors and excessive OPEX in the cloud (AWS, Azure, SoftLayer)—or worse, application performance and compliance issues.
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