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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…
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…
The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated - The On Premises Data Center Mark Twain As I mentioned in my previous post, the hype cycle has the on-premises data center dead to rights. Public cloud is the future and there’s no turning back. When you step back and investigate the private cloud space, you’d be surprised.…
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,…
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…
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…
In my previous articles, I’ve looked at the challenges and decisions people face when undertaking digital transformation and transitioning to a hybrid cloud model of IT operation. Whether it’s using public cloud infrastructure or changing operations to leverage containers and microservices, we all know not everything can…
The last couple of weeks we talked about the cloud and the software defined data center, and how it all comes into your it infrastructures. To be honest I understand a lot of you have doubts when talking and discussing cloud and SDDC. I know the buzzword lingo is strong, and it seems the marketing teams come up with new…
In a private cloud model, the control of a secure and unique cloud environment to manage your resources is done by your IT department. The difference with public cloud is that the pool of resources is accessible only by you and therefore it makes management much easier and secure. So, if you require a dedicated resource,…
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