As more businesses embrace digital transformation, many discover that they want a combination of on-premises and cloud computing strategies. Before you can choose a specific strategy that will serve your organization’s needs, it’s important to spend some time learning about the pros and cons of on-premises and cloud environment solutions. You might decide that it makes more sense to choose hybrid cloud strategies as the approach that offers the best of both technologies.

In day-to-day life, everything is driven by events. If the phone rings, you pick it up. If the timer on the oven pings, you switch it off. These are all examples of event-driven reactions, where the action is based on the conditions surrounding it. How does this relate to business IT systems? To begin to understand this, it helps to think of your company as a collection of events. Some of these events occur over and over, such as customer purchases or CRM data entry.

Deciding where to run your enterprise workloads is one of the biggest business decisions you’ll make. That’s because your chosen deployment model influences how you access software and systems, scale your business, and safeguard sensitive data. There are three main deployment methods you need to know about: Self-hosted, on-premises, and cloud. All three models have pros and cons, so it’s important to do your research before investing in new infrastructure and/or services.

You’ve heard of cloud computing and how businesses use it, but do you know about virtual public clouds? VPCs are designed to give users a private cloud experience on a public cloud. For many, this is the best of both worlds when it comes to cloud storage: you get the benefits of a private cloud with the resources available on the public cloud.

Today’s businesses need flexible technologies that let them adapt to emerging trends as quickly as possible. Many have embraced digital transformation as an adaptive strategy that can improve everything from DevOps to security. Virtual machines can also play critical roles in digital transformation and in making your organization’s technology more nimble.

Digital transformation has been a buzzword for quite some time, but the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the need for organizations to adopt digital solutions. As we enter a new year, it’s worth taking a closer look at the top digital transformation trends that will shape business strategies in 2023. We’ll explore six key trends that will help organizations stay ahead of the curve and achieve digital transformation success.

Now that we have explored monitoring apis with Prometheus, let’s take a look at monitoring our APIs with Grafana. You may have noticed from the previous blog that Prometheus is awesome, but takes some time to fully flesh out and their dashboards aren’t easy to read or very eye-catching. Luckily for us, Grafana specializes in data visualization. We won’t even have to configure all our Prometheus queries, so let’s get started.

Do you have a DB2 database that needs a REST API? Now you can connect to your IBM DB2 with DreamFactory in just a few minutes. In this short blog post I’ll explain how you can connect to DB2 with DreamFactory’s auto-generated REST API for DB2.

Have you ever wanted a quick and easy way to monitor your Docker environment? Do you want to have an API monitor with minimal configuration? Well it looks like there has never been a better time to monitor your API as there are currently a plethora of awesome tools out there to help us with monitoring, such as Prometheus and Grafana.

On-premises software accounted for 58% of the market share for tech deployment in 2020 and is projected to grow 30% by 2030. While cloud services will likely overtake this deployment method in the years to come, your business might not be able to afford to switch to the cloud anytime soon, especially if predictions about an impending recession come true.