Picking a cloud provider used to be a fairly contained decision: compare a few price sheets, check which region is closest to your users, and sign up. In 2026 it’s a different kind of decision. AI workloads now make up roughly 19% of total cloud spending, Kubernetes runs in production at 82% of organizations using containers, and […]
Scalable IT infrastructure is no longer a “nice to have” for engineering teams — it’s the difference between a product that absorbs a traffic spike and one that goes dark during a launch. Terraform, originally built by HashiCorp and now part of IBM’s portfolio, remains the most widely adopted Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool for […]
Every growing company eventually hits the same wall: the person who used to fix laptops “on the side” can no longer carry the whole operation, and a single missed ticket starts to look like a business risk instead of an inconvenience. IT support services are the working definition of “boring but critical”: nobody notices them when […]
Key Takeaways ✓ The “fast launch” trap is real. Retrofitting compliance costs 3-10× more and delays enterprise contracts by 6-18 months — build it in from day one. ✓ Compliant infrastructure rests on three layers: network segregation (private subnets, VPC isolation), data encryption (AES-256, TLS 1.3, KMS), and zero-trust access (IAM roles, mTLS, MFA). ✓ […]
A practical framework for evaluating IT support partners — what separates a genuinely good fit from a glorified help desk, and how to tell the difference before you sign a contract. When CTOs and operations leaders search for the best IT support company, they’re rarely looking for a single winner. They’re looking for a way to […]
AWS still offers unmatched scale, but for a large share of production workloads it has become the most expensive way to solve an ordinary infrastructure problem. That is the conclusion three Gart Solutions clients reached independently, in three different industries, before any of them had heard of each other’s projects. Each one asked the same […]
