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Will I Save Money by Moving to the Cloud?
This post is post one in a small series, taking an atypical look at the public cloud and why you may or may not want to leverage it. Part 2 asks the question I'm Still On-Premises, Is That OK? and in part 3 we explore SaaS in Beyond IaaS, Cloud for the SMB, the Enterprise, and Beyond! Did you know AWS came about partly…
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Our Cloud Bill Is WHAT?! - Battle of the Clouds Series
Submitted for your approval; a story of cloud horrors. One of performance issues impacting production. Where monthly cloud billing began spiraling out of control. The following story is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent. During my consulting career, I’ve encountered companies at many different…
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Down With Cloud First – A Look at the Shift from Organizations Adopting a Cloud-First Mentality and What They Do Today
Today’s public cloud hyperscalers, such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Google, provide a whole host of platforms and services to enable organizations to deliver pretty much any workload you can imagine. However, they aren’t the be-all and end-all of an organization’s IT infrastructure needs. Not too long ago, the hype in the…
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To Cloud or Not to Cloud?
There’s a question I’m sure is keeping some IT managers and CTOs up at night. How do you know when it’s right to move a workload to the cloud? And when you finally make the decision to migrate, how do you choose the best location for your application? As mentioned in my previous post, cloud is a buzzword that carries with…
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Just Throw it in the Cloud! - The Battle of the Clouds Series
Scenario: a mission-critical application is having performance issues during peak business hours. App developers blame the storage. The storage team blames the network. The network admin blames the infrastructure. The cycle of blame continues until finally someone shouts, “Why don’t we just put it in the cloud?” Certainly,…
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Battle of the Clouds: Where Do We Go From Here?
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both -Robert Frost At this point in our “Battle of the Clouds” journey, we’ve seen what the landscape of the various clouds looks like, cut through some of the fog around cloud, and glimpsed what failing to plan can do to your cloud migration. So, where does…
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Public Cloud: All Aboard the Hype Train
We’ve all heard it before. “The cloud is the future!” “We need to move to the cloud!” “The on-premises data center is dead.” If you believe the analysts and marketing departments, public cloud is the greatest thing to happen to the data center since virtualization. But, is it true? Could public cloud be the savior of the…
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Beyond IaaS, Cloud for the SMB, the Enterprise, and Beyond!
We come to you today with a late-breaking breaking postscript! When we last left our IT hero, they were asking themselves deep and probing questions like Will I Save Money by Moving to the Cloud and I’m Still On-Premises, Is That OK? As they go about modernizing their IT organization, they cry out, “What if IaaS isn’t not…
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I'm Still On-Premises, Is That OK?
Following up on Will I Save Money by Moving to the Cloud? This post is part two of taking an atypical look at the public cloud and why you may or may not want to leverage it. If you stop and think for a moment, cloud computing is still in its youth. EC2 has only been a public offering since 2006. Gartner first treated “the…
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Is Cloud-Agnostic Even a Thing?
Before we can examine if cloud-agnostic is a thing, we must understand what it is in the first place. There are a multitude of opinions on this matter, but from my standpoint, being cloud-agnostic is about being able to run a given workload on any cloud platform, without having to modify the workload for it to work…