Category: Cloud

Rethink Your Definition of the Cloud

December 6, 2022

Rows and flows of angel hair and ice cream castles in the air And feather canyons everywhere, I’ve looked at clouds that way But now they only block the sun; they rain and snow on everyone So many things I would’ve done; but clouds got in my way I’ve looked […]

Cloud First or Company First?

September 10, 2020

Possible Solution: HPE Cloud Volumes By Paul O’Dell, Director and Partner at CPP Associates I think my kids have a newfound respect for me. Or possibly, they think that I am going crazy. (Sometimes I’m not sure.) In this COVID-19 world, they have heard me have the same discussion repeatedly. […]

PRODUCT REVIEW: HPE Container Platform

June 17, 2020

AI app development has grown up in a world of open source software. There are HUNDREDS of software options across all the phases of a pipeline, from collecting data to making decisions based on the analysis.  Essentially, too many options for any person or team to master all of them—AND […]

Containers Driving Transformation

June 2, 2020

It’s a new decade—and it’s certainly starting out as a whopper. As Robert Christianson, Chief Cloud Strategist at HPE points out in this article, there are seemingly major transformations in technology every decade or so that change how we do business. In the 2010s, it was the Cloud. Then next […]

PT Barnum, AWS, and Egress

May 19, 2020

The case for planning ahead! Recently (March 19,2020), The Register published an article about NASA and ‘surprising’ AWS egress charges. Apparently, even rocket scientists have a hard time figuring out AWS egress charges. According to the piece, current projections indicate that NASA will pay up to $30M per year by […]

MARCH MADNESS – Events at CPP Associates

March 5, 2020

Spring is right around the corner.  And we’re celebrating by hosting several event opportunities to meet with our team.  Check out the CPP March Madness events below and let us know if you’re interested in joining us. IT Executive Dinner, Dive Deep into XaaS, March 18th We’re having dinner at Wolfgang’s […]

The Power of GreenLake – cloud-like experience with on-premises control

February 13, 2020

HPE partners are recognizing that their clients, in the enterprise to small and mid-sized businesses, are demanding a cloud like experience with on-premises control and governance to facilitate their digital transformation. As a result, HPE is positioning GreenLake’s fast growing “pay per use” business model to its’ partner ecosystem more […]

CRN & CPP The true costs of public clouds

October 31, 2019

“We’ve done 27+ of these Infrastructure Anywhere assessments and almost every single one has turned out to be the same: On-premises done correctly is always less expensive than off-premises done correctly,” said Paul O’Dell, a director at CPP Associates, Clinton, N.J., which counts Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft […]