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When a Cloud Giant Falters: Lessons from the October 29, 2025 Microsoft Azure Outage
Today’s global digital economy depends heavily on large-scale cloud platforms. When one experiences disruption, the effects can ripple across industries. On October 29, 2025, Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform encountered a significant outage that affected core services including Microsoft 365, Xbox Live, and numerous third-party applications and enterprises. Outages like these are rare, and it’s worth recognizing the immense complexity hyperscale providers manage every day. Mi


Your Cloud Journey Part 3: Migration and Mobility Across Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Environments
If assessment is the discovery and planning phase of your cloud journey, migration is the execution of that analysis and plan - when workloads begin their transition into a new environment. But modern organizations need a plan for mobility in general, it's no longer just “migrate once.” Today, mobility has become a continuous strategy, not a one-time event. Migration is no longer only about moving from an on-premises data center to a single cloud. Instead, it’s about enabling


Your Cloud Journey Part 2: Readiness Assessment
How Assessment Tools Accelerate Infrastructure Modernization This is Part 2 of a 5-part blog series that started last week on how the RackWare MultiCloud Platform helps our partners take customers on their Cloud journey using a single, integrated platform. Assessment is the first, most important mile of any migration or modernization program, and the piece that turns unknowns into an actionable plan. In the world of cloud transformation, Systems Integrators (SIs) and Managed


Business Continuity in the Face of Cloud Disruption: What Today's AWS Outage Teaches Us
Why Cloud Independence and Real-Resiliency Planning Are No Longer Optional On October 20, 2025, AWS experienced a global outage that rippled through major apps, services and enterprises. What at first might look like “just another cloud hiccup” is, in fact, a strategic signal for IT leaders, infrastructure teams, and business continuity planners: your cloud strategy must be far more involved than choosing the right provider. Let’s dig into what we know about the outage, why i


Your Cloud Journey Part 1: Introduction
The cloud is no longer a destination, it’s a journey that involves assessing existing environments, moving workloads, protecting critical assets, and continuously monitoring for performance and compliance.


How to Extend Oracle Database Disaster Recovery to Google Cloud, Without Starting from Scratch
If your recovery plan doesn’t include your entire ecosystem, you're at risk for business-threatening downtime in the event of an outage. That’s why more enterprises are looking to complement their Oracle DB protection with a broader, platform-aware strategy.


Ensuring AI/ML Pipeline Resilience: Best Practices for Model and Data Backup
By Aniket H. Kulkarni, VP of Engineering, RackWare Containerized AI and ML workflows have become the backbone of modern data science,...


Disaster Recovery is More Than Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
By Todd Matters, Chief Technology Officer, RackWare When IT professionals talk about Disaster Recovery (DR), Recovery Point Objective —...


The Importance of Cloud Computing in Disaster Recovery Planning
Click here to download our disaster recovery checklist Disasters can strike any business at any time, and the consequences can be severe,...


The Rising Importance of Sovereign Data in Cloud Environments
Why Sovereign Data Matters In today’s global cloud ecosystem, data sovereignty has become a strategic imperative—not just a compliance...


Why SAP HANA & ECC Migrations Are So Hard — and How to Make Them Easier
If you’ve ever had to migrate an SAP environment, you know it’s rarely smooth sailing. Between sprawling ECC landscapes and the in-memory...


Why Migrating from VMware to the Cloud Can Be Surprisingly Difficult
The hidden risks of relying on VMDK-based conversion — and the smarter alternative For organizations seeking to modernize their...


Why Backup and Disaster Recovery Are Not the Same Thing
Understanding the difference could save your business in a crisis. In IT circles, it's common to hear the terms Backup and Disaster...


Redefining Disaster Recovery: How Automation and the Cloud Make DR Affordable for Everyone
Disaster Recovery Doesn’t Have to Be Expensive Anymore It wasn’t long ago that robust Disaster Recovery (DR) was a luxury only the...


RackWare MultiCloud Platform Gives Bite to Cloud Cost Optimization Tools
RackWare Empowers Cloud Cost Optimization Tools to Deliver Real Savings In the evolving landscape of cloud computing, cloud cost...


Achieving True MultiCloud Resiliency: How RackWare Closes the Disaster Recovery Gap
In today’s dynamic cloud landscape, MultiCloud strategies are more than just an industry trend—they are a necessity for enterprises...


Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) and the Need for Multi-Cloud Architectures
The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) (Regulation (EU) 2022/2554) establishes a set of compliance requirements for financial...


Beyond the Data Center: Your Journey from OpenShift On-Prem to Cloud-Native Kubernetes for a Future-Ready Enterprise with RackWare SWIFT
In today’s rapidly evolving IT landscape, organizations are rethinking traditional on-prem strategies. For those running OpenShift...


Private Cloud and the Realization of True Hybrid Cloud (Part 1)
~ Todd Matters, CTO, VP of Engineering at RackWare Getting to the Cloud computing we have today has been a long and serpentine path. ...


The Role of DevOps in Successful Cloud Migration and Recovery: Achieving Seamlessness and Resilience
In the dynamic world of cloud computing, where agility and efficiency reign supreme, the partnership between DevOps and cloud migration...
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