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When 'Cloud-Ready' Isn't Hyperscale-Ready

When 'Cloud-Ready' Isn't Hyperscale-Ready

Expedient
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Why the gap between “able to move” and “able to run well” is wider than most expect. Not too long ago, assessing cloud-readiness meant simply virtualizing or moving an app. In hyperscale deployments, though, organizations began to understand that “cloud-ready” wasn’t the same as “hyperscale-ready.” Many apps can run in the cloud, but shouldn’t because of performance, cost, data, and...