Why Is the Cloud So Confusing?
Last week I wrote a guest blog post for Washington Technology Industry Association explaining What Applications Benefit the Most from the Cloud. While working on the post I looked around the Web and...
View ArticleEssential Cloud Computing Characteristics
If you ask five different experts you will get maybe five different opinions what cloud computing is. And all five may be correct. The best definition of cloud computing that I have ever found is the...
View ArticleCloud Computing Service Models
In this post I will look at the three different service models for cloud computing as defined by NIST. More specifically I will look at the management and operations overhead for each one of the models...
View ArticleThere Is More to PaaS Than You Think
As described in the last week's post NIST defines three different cloud computing service models - IaaS, PaaS and SaaS. IaaS and SaaS are really easy to grasp but I see people struggling to understand...
View ArticleEvaluating Cloud Computing Uptime SLAs
Last week's Windows Azure Storage outage made me thinking how many of us evaluate the vendor's Service Level Agreement (SLA) before they decide to deploy workloads in the cloud. I bet many think about...
View ArticleAre There Other "as-a-Service" Cloud Offerings?
As already described in the previous few articles NIST defines three different service models for the cloud - IaaS, PaaS and SaaS. However if you look at the Wikipedia article about cloud computing you...
View ArticleMigrating Legacy Applications to the Cloud
Tweet With everybody jumping on the cloud computing bandwagon lately, developers and architects need to spend extra time analyzing applications that can become good candidates for migration. It is...
View ArticleThe Importance of Private Clouds
PrivateFew days ago I noticed a question on a LinkedIn group that made me thinking how important is the notion of private clouds. First, let's briefly look at what is the difference between public,...
View ArticleBusiness Strategy for Enterprise Cloud Startups
BusinessSuccessWith cloud computing becoming the center of almost every new enterprise IT project, more and more startups decide to compete in the area. This raises the question: "Are they ready to...
View ArticleHow Do You Choose Your Cloud Provider?
If you have been thinking how to choose your public cloud vendor you are not the only one. There are hundreds of offerings that you can choose from and comparing those can be a cumbersome exercise....
View ArticleDo You Have a Plan for Switching Cloud Providers?
Tweet Last week's announcement from Xeround to discontinue their public database service may have taken some people by surprise. Xeround's web site claims that they power 32,000 applications and for...
View ArticleWhy Application Modernization is Necessary When You Move to the Cloud?
Tweet For decades we have been developing applications that are tightly coupled and bound to the underlying infrastructure. With the introduction of the cloud though this legacy architectures prove not...
View ArticleMulti-Tenancy Options in Cloud Environments
Tweet One of the biggest benefits the cloud offers is the ability to colocate customers and applications on the same hardware in order to improve the efficiency through resource utilization. This type...
View Article10 Dos and Don'ts for Running Proof-of-Concept Projects in the Cloud
Tweet With cloud computing increasing its popularity, more and more enterprise IT and development teams are looking to run proof-of-concept projects. Very often though such projects do not deliver...
View ArticleOpen Source in the Cloud - How Much Should You Care?
n the cloud doesn't matter whether you are running on an Open Source platform or not - it is NOT free because you pay for the service. And for long Open Source project have been funded through the...
View ArticleIs Your Cloud Ready for the Enterprise?
Reading my newsfeed this morning I noticed several articles talking about the cloud and the enterprise. There is no doubt that the area is heating up with more and more acquisitions (IBM buys...
View ArticleIs the Cloud the Right Solution for Your App?
It is surprising to see how every new technology suddenly becomes the thing that will solve every problem. The cloud is no different. Everybody rushes to migrate their applications to the cloud because...
View ArticleWhy Shutting Down TechNet Is Not a Problem for IT Pros
While reading the news yesterday I stumbled upon the following article in Puget Sound Business Journal - Why is Microsoft alienating its biggest customers? IT pros want TechNet back. Everybody has the...
View ArticleHow IT Pros Are Destroying Their Own Jobs
Tweet Not surprising to me my yesterday's post Why Shutting Down TechNet is Not a Problem for IT Pros sparked quite passioned comments from IT Pros. I have to admit - I was wrong! Shutting down TechNet...
View ArticleWhat exactly is a Service?
Tweet With the advancement in cloud technologies more and more companies are getting on the Anything-as-a-Service train but over the years the term services became so overloaded that people are having...
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