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The COVID-19 global pandemic continues to affect every organization on our planet. We've been seeing the significant impact it has on the private and public sectors, and this weekend brings confirmation that large public cloud providers are also experiencing difficulties.

A Letter to Turbonomic Customers,

Today, we face a challenge and uncertainty that none of us could have imagined. The global COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically affected our way of life.  Presently, it continues to introduce new challenges daily.  Our thoughts and prayers are first and foremost with those and their families who are struggling with the virus.  At the same time, we are enormously grateful for all the healthcare teams, who put themselves at risk, treating the infected and trying to protect the global population.  Right now, we have two clear priorities: the health of our employees and the operational capacity to serve our beloved customers.

After the extensive review of the history of cloud computing over the last two decades, it is time to shift our gaze from the past into the future. In this post, we will examine and predict where the industry is heading in 2020 and beyond.

On behalf of everyone at Turbonomic, we hope our customers, partners, employees, and community had a wonderful International Women’s Day! Every day, we are inspired by the grit and compassion that our women colleagues lead with. International Women’s Day (IWD) is an opportunity to not only show appreciation for the incredible women in our lives, but also shed light on the work that still needs to be done to achieve gender equality.

As is the case with many new technologies, “observability” can take on different meanings depending on who you’re talking to. In conversations with customers, analysts, and reading what’s online, we’ve seen and heard a few definitions.

Most customers I come across who already run containerized applications are dealing with the complexities of managing multiple resources needed for their environments. I find that there are 2 types of challenges:

Introduction 

In the first article in this blog series, we covered the emergence of cloud computing during the 2000s decade:

Introduction 

In this second part of our series, we will examine the exponential growth the cloud computing field experienced during the 2010s decade.

At Cisco Live Europe, Cisco announced Intersight Workload Optimizer. Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer is a new offering that enables customers to assure application performance from on-premises (UCS, HyperFlex & 3rd party infrastructure) to cloud (AWS, Azure). Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer is the integration between Cisco Intersight and Cisco Workload Optimization Manager (CWOM).

This blog is part of a series in which we share some of the results from our State of Performance in Modern Applications Survey. Want to binge read the results? Download the full report here.