Leveraging the cloud within your organization comes with a unique set of challenges and hurdles, from staff training and role definition to organizational adoption. Without buy-in from the business, however, a move to the cloud can stop before it even starts. Some of the questions the business needs answered haven’
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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
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What's the promise of the cloud? I did a talk a while back called "Cloud by the Numbers". This was at a conference called "Cloud Arena" in Dublin, Ireland. It was a great conference with some great minds at it and I was thrilled to be one of their main
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One of the great things that cloud allows you to do is to quickly burst up a workload and then spin it down when you don't need it. The spin it down is the part that a lot of people forget about. There are a ton of workloads that fit
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The major cloud platforms are restrictive by design. Accept it, understand it, and design accordingly. Sometimes you just have to change your design to fit the cloud platform. Let’s start at the beginning. When you listen to the cloud vendors they will describe their platform using terms like: scalable,
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