By: Jim Westover, Enterprise Solutions Architect | Nth Generation One of the few constant and inevitable things in the world and in our lives is change. Adapting to change in meaningful ways can bring better outcomes and a brighter future. In recent years, we are all witnessing data, workloads, and systems migrating to the edge while staying connected to the cloud and centralized core environments. Managing the breadth of distributed computing, edge to cloud is a growing pri

Technical debt. This is a term used more and more to describe established IT environments that are overdue for updates of many kinds. The demand to deploy new systems and applications along with the lack of budget for regular hardware replacement means regular maintenance tasks can be ignored or deferred too many times, leaving the IT environment at risk. For example, running obsolete vSphere ESXi v5.1 on old processor hardware (i.e., Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge, or Opteron serv