Cloud, Data & Modernization Insights from CleanSlate
Explore the latest insights and strategies in cloud modernization, AI and scalable solutions shaping tomorrow’s businesses.
FEATURED VIDEO SERIES
Prefer to learn by watching? Explore our video series covering cloud, data, AI, and modernization.
This series is designed to share practical insights from real-world projects.
Articles for Technology Leaders Navigating Cloud, Data & AI
Explore expert-led cloud technology articles from CleanSlate Technology Group covering cloud migration, application modernization, data platforms, and emerging technologies.
Our articles are built from real-world experience helping organizations modernize legacy systems, adopt leading platforms like Amazon Web Services and IBM, prepare for what’s next. Each piece is designed to be practical, informative, and grounded in the challenges enterprise teams face every day.
Many articles include supporting videos from our experts to help break down complex topics and provide additional context.
Recognition validates CleanSlate’s proven expertise in delivering enterprise-ready AI solutions on AWS and ...
Post
Monolithic applications can slow performance, scalability, and development speed. Learn why architecture, not resources, is often the root issue.
Post
Discover how DevOps automation, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code improve deployment speed, consistency, and operational reliability.
Post
AI success depends on more than models. Learn how modernizing applications for scalability and real-time data enables AI to deliver real business impact.
Post
Transitioning from monolith to microservices doesn’t require a full rewrite. Learn how to modernize applications incrementally to improve scalability and speed.
Post
Cloud cost issues often go deeper than usage inefficiencies. Learn how application architecture and modernization play a critical role in long-term cost optimization.
Post
Slow software delivery isn’t usually a talent problem. Learn how DevOps systems, pipelines, and environment consistency impact speed to market.
Post
Modernization doesn’t happen automatically after migration. Learn how AWS modernization pathways help organizations evolve applications through incremental, strategic improvements.
Post
AI and analytics initiatives often fail to scale due to outdated application architecture. Learn why application modernization is essential to unlock real business value.
Post
High IT maintenance costs often signal deeper issues with legacy systems. Discover how outdated architecture drains resources and limits innovation
Post
Lift and shift migration gets workloads into the cloud, but it doesn’t guarantee modernization. Learn why applications often remain outdated and how to unlock real cloud value.
Post
Data and analytics leader evaluating internal upskilling versus external partnership for enterprise AI capability
Post
Data and analytics leader evaluating internal upskilling versus external partnership for enterprise AI capability
Post
Enterprise AI team reviewing production readiness criteria for POC development approach
Post
Manual cloud provisioning slows you down. Discover how automating infrastructure the right way boosts efficiency, security, and scalability for your team.
Post
Moving Gen AI from pilot to production requires the right approach for your organization. Compare the main options by time-to-value, risk, and readiness.
Post
Cloud costs often feel unpredictable, but the issue is rarely the platform itself. Learn why architecture, visibility, and governance drive cloud spend.
Post
Cloud costs often feel unpredictable, but the issue is rarely the platform itself. Learn why architecture, visibility, and governance drive cloud spend.
Post
A cloud migration roadmap without clear TCO is guesswork. Learn how to evaluate cost, risk, and strategy before making a major investment decision.
Post
Lift and shift and modernization are not opposing strategies. Learn how combining lift and shift with modernization creates a flexible, low-risk path to cloud migration and long-term optimization.
Post
Legacy systems may feel stable, but they quietly increase cost, risk, and complexity over time. Learn how delaying migration can limit flexibility and future growth.
Post
Your cloud migration strategy does not need to be risky. With the right structure, sequencing, and planning, organizations can reduce uncertainty and move forward with confidence.
Post
Data centers may seem predictable, but hidden costs often compound over time. From licensing to operational drag, many organizations are only seeing part of the financial picture.
Post
Legacy application assessment is critical before cloud migration. The goal is not exhaustive analysis, but informed prioritization that reduces risk without slowing progress.
Post
Many organizations delay cloud migration due to time and budget constraints. In reality, the issue is often a lack of clarity around costs, risks, and business value.
Post
Cloud migration is widely adopted, yet fear still slows decisions. The issue is not irrational concern. It is uncertainty around cost, risk, and operations. Here is why those fears persist.
Post
Real-time data does not guarantee real-time decisions. When speed outpaces structure, dashboards become harder to trust and harder to use. Here is why near real-time analytics breaks down in practice.
Post
A lakehouse can be fully deployed and still fail to deliver value. The issue is not the technology. It is how the organization adopts, governs, and operationalizes it. Here is where most initiatives stall.
Post
Analytics platforms rarely fail because of storage. They fail because they were never designed to scale across teams. Here’s how architecture breaks down and what scalable design actually requires.
Post
When reports don’t match and teams spend more time reconciling than analyzing, the issue is not dashboards. It is data silos. Here are seven clear signs your data foundation is fragmented and holding your organization back.
Post
Near real-time analytics is not just about speed. Without the right data consolidation strategy, fast data becomes untrusted data. This guide breaks down how to balance latency, governance, and reliability in a real-world environment.
Post
When reports don’t match and teams spend more time reconciling than analyzing, the issue is not dashboards. It is data silos. Here are seven clear signs your data foundation is fragmented and holding your organization back.
Post
If your dashboards are inconsistent and self-service keeps stalling, the issue may not be your tools. It is often a lack of data maturity. This article breaks down the signs and why your data foundation determines whether analytics actually works.
Post
Choosing between a data lakehouse and a traditional warehouse is not just a technology decision. It shapes how your organization governs data, supports analytics, and scales AI. This guide breaks down the real tradeoffs so you can choose with clarity.
Post
Learn how to build a data maturity roadmap that improves time-to-insight, trust, and adoption. Explore key stages, milestones, and strategies for scaling data products and governance.
Post
Enterprise AI teams often run endless pilots without production results. Learn how POC fatigue slows innovation and what leaders can do to fix it.
Post
Enterprise AI teams often run endless pilots without production results. Learn how POC fatigue slows innovation and what leaders can do to fix it.
Post
AI tools deployed, models built, dashboards live. If none of that is changing how the business operates, you have an adoption problem, not a technology problem.
Post
Most AI investments look like progress on paper. Few produce measurable business outcomes. Here is what is actually missing when AI spending stops delivering.
Post
Many organizations are experimenting with Generative AI but struggling to move pilots into production. Learn the signs your Gen AI initiatives are stuck in POC limbo.
Post
by Artie Sluka
Testing is one of the most overlooked and complex parts of a cloud migration. When applications, ...
Post
by Artie Sluka
Cloud migrations require more than moving servers from one environment to another. Without the ...
Post
by Artie Sluka
AWS migrations can feel overwhelming—especially when organizations try to tackle everything at ...
Post
by Artie Sluka
Cloud migrations are rarely driven by perfect timing. More often, they are triggered by urgency, ...
Post
Generative AI initiatives often stall, not because of the models, but because the underlying data foundation ...
Post
▶ Turning Generative AI into Measurable Business Impact
By now, most enterprise organizations have ...
Post
Enterprise Generative AI isn’t about plugging into a single model.
It’s about assembling the right services into a ...
Post
Generative AI has moved from experimentation to expectation.
For enterprise organizations, the question is no ...
Post
Manual cloud provisioning slows you down. Discover how automating infrastructure the right way boosts efficiency, security, and scalability for your team.
Post
Manual cloud provisioning slows you down. Discover how automating infrastructure the right way boosts efficiency, security, and scalability for your team.
Post
Ad hoc infrastructure leads to gaps in security and compliance. Learn why standardization and automation are critical to protect your cloud environment.
Post
Discover the key differences between Terraform Community and Commercial. Learn when upgrading makes sense for your team’s security, support, and scale.
Post
See how top teams use Terraform to deploy and manage cloud resources efficiently, improve security, and streamline operations at scale.
Post
Discover why Terraform is the key to building scalable, secure infrastructure—enabling automation, consistency, and growth for modern cloud teams.
Post
Discover where Terraform excels for Infrastructure as Code—multi-cloud, rapid scaling, automation, and more. Find the right IaC fit for your cloud needs.
Post
Learn when your organization should adopt Terraform for Infrastructure as Code—discover the signs it’s time to scale, automate, and boost cloud efficiency.
Post
Siloed infrastructure drains money, time, and security. Learn how unified infrastructure-as-code with Terraform ...
Post
POC fatigue is slowing enterprise AI innovation. Learn why endless pilots stall progress and how to shift AI from demos to production value.
Post
by Artie Sluka
For many organizations, the decision to migrate to Amazon Web Services starts with mounting ...
Post
by Artie Sluka and Darren Mills | October 3, 2025
AWS migration and modernization are at the core of how ...
Post
We’re proud to share that CleanSlate has officially been recognized as an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner — one ...
Post
by Nathan Liston | August 29, 2025 Data is the cornerstone of today’s modern enterprise. Without it, you can’t ...
Post
There is no doubt that the cloud has become the go-to operating model for organizations in the digital age. Yet, ...
Post
CleanSlate Technology Group & the CleanSlate team were nominated for the Service Partner of the Year Mira Award, honoring the Best in Tech in Indiana.
Post
Cloud Engineer, Jason Karrel, explains how he leverages AWS, DevOps, Voice Skill, and application expertise to help clients deliver better automation.
Post
Cloud Technical Architect, Stephen Sailor, explains how he leverages AWS, DevOps, and application expertise to help clients deliver better automation.
Post
IBM Cloud Pak for Integration
is a comprehensive, hybrid integration platform that leverages AI
- powered automation across the integration lifecycle to unlock business data silos and assets, connect cloud, and on-prem
apps, and protect in-flight data integrity with enterprise messaging
Post
Your planning journey doesn’t stop with your IBM Planning Analytics implementation. CleanSlate helps you beyond the technology phase of your planning journey into the business side.
Post
The IBM License Metric Tool is a free and invaluable software asset management solution that helps you track, measure, monitor, and manage your IBM software estate. With ILMT, you can maintain an up-to-date inventory of your IBM software assets, gather information about your hardware, and ensure the license compliance of your organization.
Post
As IBM licensing experts, CleanSlate is here to help you at every step of your IBM License Metric Tool journey. With CleanSlate, you get the best of both worlds – expertise in navigating the complexities of IBM licensing coupled with deep experience in proper ILMT deployment and reporting.
Post
IBM’s zero-trust approach to security enables you to guard against all the different vulnerabilities your organization may have—known and unknown—and prevents bad actors from taking advantage of them.
Post
Guardium is a comprehensive data protection platform that lets your IT team know what’s going on with your data no matter where it lives.
Post
Outlining a New Approach to Automation
As digital transformation accelerates ...
Post
A key feature of any solution is security – particularly when you have a software platform that encompasses thousands of clients, teams of developers, constantly evolving features, and wide exposure across the globe.
Post
A migration assessment is a specific engagement with defined variables and activities that provide a 360-degree view of your organization’s readiness to migrate
Post
So, you may start by asking yourself….What is the value of starting with an assessment? Why not jump right into your cloud migration journey?
Post
A holistic way to illustrate key components of proper cloud operations and business drivers for migrating to the cloud.
Post
A modern, cloud-native application is a solution that is built by leveraging the inherent strength of the underlying cloud platform.
Post
March 8th is International Women's Day. The mission of IWD for Women in Tech is to celebrate digital advancement ...
Post
March 8th is International Women's Day. The mission of IWD for Women in Tech is to celebrate digital advancement ...
Post
Everyone’s journey is going to be unique. There are many principles to apply while identifying your cloud ...
Post
CSTG explains how to build a modern DevOps platform along with Agile Delivery on how we've helped companies stay ahead of market.
Post
From expertise & guidance to partner benefits and funding programs - learn why you should be partnering on your cloud journey.
Post
Migrating to the cloud isn’t just porting applications to a new, physical location. It is an evolution of thought and technology. Let’s take a look at what is involved in a Cloud Readiness Assessment.
Post
With the cloud, it’s vital to consider HOW you set up the cloud resources needed to support your system. What happens if it isn’t set up correctly?
Post
Delivering Digital Innovation for Delta Faucet CompanyOn June 24, CleanSlate partnered with Delta Faucet Company ...
Post
[Carmel, Indiana - June 8, 2021]: CleanSlate Technology Group today announced that they have attained the Amazon ...
Post
Monolith. The ominous name signifies something big, unmovable, and difficult to deal with.
And that’s exactly what ...
Post
You see the term microservices tossed around often on powerpoint slides, webinars, and sales glossy handouts, but ...
Post
These days, it doesn't matter if you're a non-technical founder or a full stack developer, you'd have to be living ...
Post
According to a study by Gartner in 2021, 69% of director boards are wanting to accelerate digital initiatives in ...
Post
CleanSlate is thrilled to have been selected as a finalist for the Powderkeg 2020 National Tech Culture Awards. ...
Post
CleanSlate is committed to providing AWS solutions and expertise to Public Sector Community
CleanSlate, a ...
Post
The Internet of Thing (IoT) is rapidly becoming more popular as services, such as home automation and health ...
Post
Centralized cloud security and compliance combined with democratized incident response can ensure that the right ...
Post
IBM Cloud allows IT organizations to standardize upon software-defined infrastructure that is simpler to acquire, deploy, manage and scale out as business needs grow, without sacrificing reliability and security.
Post
Perhaps the most important aspect of fully utilizing IBM’s ILMT (or Big Fix Inventory) tool is to be able to ...
Post
It wasn't until a couple years later that I started seeing RESTful APIs at client engagements. All of them seemed to follow the standard RESTful API design, making it easy to build client applications against the back-end API services built upon REST.
Post
Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb recently recognized CleanSlate as one of Indiana’s fastest growing technology ...
Post
All of us at CleanSlate are excited to announce that we’ve just received Ingram Micro’s IBM Business Unit Partner of the Year award.
Post
Platinum Partner status means CleanSlate will be able to offer platinum-level advantages to our current and future clients, while continuing to provide the expertise and dedication to quality that got us here in the first place.
Post
For many companies, software represents a significant portion of overhead. And if you aren’t managing your ...
Post
Categories
Recent Posts
CleanSlate Technology Group Achieves AWS AI Competency
Recognition validates CleanSlate’s proven expertise in delivering enterprise-ready AI solutions on AWS and accelerating customer outcomes through a Better Together approach CARMEL, IN – March 25, 2026 – CleanSlate Technology Group, a leading data and AI consulting...
Stuck with Monolithic Applications? Performance and Scalability Issues Explained
If you are a VP of Application Development, you have likely encountered a familiar conversation. A system begins to slow down. Users report latency. Infrastructure teams suggest adding more resources. Engineers begin tuning queries, adjusting caching layers, or...
Automating DevOps for Speed and Reliability
If you lead platform engineering, you probably hear the same request from multiple directions. Developers want faster releases.Operations wants stability.Security wants stronger controls.Leadership wants all of it without increasing risk. At first glance, those...
Modernizing for Cloud Scalability: Practical Roadmaps
Artificial intelligence and advanced analytics are now central to many enterprise strategies. Organizations want faster insights, better predictions, and systems that respond intelligently to changing conditions. For Chief Data Officers, this ambition creates a new...
Transforming Monolithic Apps to Microservices: Steps and Benefits
If you are responsible for application delivery, you have likely felt the pressure that comes with large, tightly coupled systems. A small change requires broad testing. Releases demand coordination across teams. Scaling one part of the system means scaling...
Join Our Newsletter
Ready To Get Started?
Don’t miss out! Sign up for our email list.
Want the latest and greatest from our content straight to your inbox? Subscribe and get our latest updates. Be The First To Know