Posts Tagged ‘Private Cloud’
What Should I Do about Cloud?
The word of the day is “Cloud.” Nearly every software and hardware vendor out there has a product and shiny marketing to help their customers go “to the cloud.” Every IT trade rag has seemingly unique, seemingly agnostic advice on how their audience can take advantage of cloud computing. Standards bodies have published authoritative descriptions of cloud computing models. If you’re an IT decision maker or influencer, you’re in luck! Many reputable players in the industry have published reams of information to help you on your journey to take advantage of cloud computing. Pick your poison… Public, Private, Hybrid, Community, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS… even XaaS (anything as a service!). On-premises, off-premises… or even “on-premise” if you want! Read More »
Measure Twice…Cut Once: How to Avoid the Cloud Factory Default Button
This is one of those old woodworking adages that really applies when you are starting the process to build out your own private cloud. What does this mean and how does it apply today? Well, I can remember all too well my junior high school shop teacher repeating this over and over again to us as students. I think he told us measure twice, cut once almost as many times as he told us to remember to take the key out of the chuck in the drill press or to stop drag racing with the belt sanders. I can also remember telling my shop teacher it was a whole lot more fun to crank up the table saw and start cutting than to use a tape measure. Read More »
Is There Such a Thing as “Color by Numbers” for Private Cloud?
Special Guest Post from Trevor Bunker, Chief Technology Architect, CA Technologies
What matters the most to enterprise architects as private clouds take shape at their organizations? The same issues that always matter: standards, repeatability, governance and structure. Read More »
A View from 30,000 Feet: What Does the Cloud Really Mean?
I wrote this post on a flight back from Colorado (hence the title). It seemed only fitting that, being up above the clouds myself, I should write my next Journey to the Cloud blog post. I started thinking back a couple of weeks ago, when GreenPages held its annual Technology Summit in Portsmouth, NH. The event consisted of two and a half days of keynote and breakout sessions delivered by a combination of our top vendor/manufacturer partners and our own solution architects. The event attendees included delegates from our top 70 customers and ranged from C level executives to IT management. Probably no surprise to any of you, but the theme of the event this year centered on cloud technologies. I was inspired to write this blog post based on some of the keynote sessions and feedback from attendees. Read More »
