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Also "SaaS" Can Become "PaaS" If You're Not Careful The PCI Security Standard Council finally released its PCI DSS Cloud Computing Guidelines this month, and the Guidelines are not kind to Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions, or to Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions that behave like PaaS. In the document, the…
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…
It’s a common story. Your team has many times more work than you have man hours to accomplish. Complexity is increasing, demands, are rising, acceptable delivery times are dropping, and your team isn’t getting money for more people. What are you supposed to do? Traditionally the management answer to this question is…
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…
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…
Had a great stay-cation last week. I made no plans except a quick overnight trip to the beach. It was wonderful doing nothing, catching up on sleep, and enjoying our backyard space. I highly recommend everyone find the time to do nothing; your body, mind, and spirit will thank you. As always, here are some links I hope you…
I remember the simpler days. Back when our infrastructure all lived in one place, usually just in one room, and monitoring it could be as simple as walking in to see if everything looked OK. Today’s environments are very different, with our infrastructure being distributed all over the planet and much of it not even being…
Cloud fixes everything. Well, no it doesn’t. But cloud technology is finally coming out of the trough of disillusionment and entering the plateau of productivity. That means as people take cloud technologies more seriously and look at practical hybrid-cloud solutions for their businesses, engineers of all stripes are going…
Is your company considering cloud computing? Cloud computing comes in many different flavors, but the following are some of the most popular forms: * Software as a Service (SaaS) * Platform as a Service (PaaS) * Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) These three basic forms of cloud computing deliver on-demand technology…
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