I'm going to spend some time hunting down the marketing person who started using the word "leverage" in place of good old fashioned "use". I suspect I'll find them curled up in a ball in an obscure part of the interweb. Most likely rocking themselves to sleep. They'll no doubt

Public cloud is simple to buy and it’s simple to trial. For some reason this simplicity blinds people and cloud migration projects seem to appear from nowhere/anywhere/everywhere. People jump right in and start talking about network, storage and compute. Moving to the cloud is the answer. Can

The major cloud vendors have invested in the best people, technology and processes. They have spent billions setting up world class datacentres. Everything is independently validated and verified by some very clever people. How secure is it? Let's put it this way. Its hard to find something more secure than

Microsoft and SAP just announced a world record for SAP performance. Specifically "World Record for the category of SAP Sales and Distribution Standard Application Benchmarks executed in the cloud deployment type". It is a great endorsement for Azure and Microsoft. You can read more about it here: World Record SAL