Aggregation Services: The Main Entry Point for IaaS and Public Cloud
Cloud computing is currently the hot topic in IT. At the same time, cloud computing has become one of the most nebulous terms in IT. Even definitions in the cloud space are different from “expert” to...
View ArticleCloud Computing Allows Companies to Do More with Less
Cloud computing is not for everybody, but it is certainly something everybody should get educated on, as it is completely changing the way businesses operate. It is revolutionizing the way IT...
View ArticleCloud Bursting and What it Means to You
The marketing hype around cloud computing is at an all-time high. That only makes sense as there have never before been so many options to source IT in an operating expense (OPEX) delivery model. Many...
View ArticleCapital Markets and the Cloud
Keeping pace with shifting marketplace conditions, exploding volumes of complex data and ever-more pressing compliance mandates is stretching capital markets firms’ IT infrastructures and budgets to...
View ArticleSecurity in the Cloud: Avoiding Rough Weather in IaaS & SaaS
In a previous blog post, I mentioned that the measure of success with a cloud provider comes down to your ability to get the “real story” during the sales cycle. While I touched on the physical...
View ArticleLook Before You Leap: All Clouds Are Not Created Equal
It’s been an amazing day at Cloud & Such – no bothersome customer calls and the power has only gone out twice in the data center (aka parents’ garage). However, the propane-powered generator kicked...
View ArticleHealthcare and the Cloud: A Warming Relationship
For a long time, security concerns have hindered cloud computing implementation among healthcare organizations. The fact that this is changing is not unheard of if you consider that when the...
View ArticleCloud Computing – Start Small, Win Big
The word “cloud” is thrown around today like the word “green” was about 5 years ago. With all that background noise, it becomes a problem to discern whether or not this technology is beneficial for an...
View ArticleCloud Computing Delivers IT, You Take Care of Business
The date was June 5th, 1895 and Jedidiah Collinsworth, CFO for General Corporation was having a very perplexing day. General Corporation was the largest maker of hammers in its time. However, the...
View ArticleAn Open Cloud Computing Email to the CIO – Part 1/2
In the following blog post, the people are make-believe, but their situation is real. Dear Mr. CIO, As you know, I have worked for ABC Company for the last 14 years. In this time, I have given my blood...
View ArticleAlready Made a Move to the Cloud with Office 365? What other Cloud Platforms...
Many enterprises are happily running their Office desktop apps or Exchange, SharePoint, Yammer and Lync services online through Office 365 subscriptions. Some now are asking what other workloads they...
View ArticleAn Open Cloud Computing Email to the IT Director from the CIO – Part 2/2
In my last post, I wrote an email to a CIO from an IT director. While the communication was fictitious, the scenario was real-life. The following is my response from the CIO. Dear Mr. IT Director,...
View ArticleYour Rainy Day Strategy is Ruining your Cloud Initiative
I have spent a lot of time talking to customers and analysts about Cloud solutions and the value they bring to the market. As a result, I have seen countless instances where customers have achieved...
View ArticleCloud-based Microsoft Azure Lets Organizations Migrate at Their Own Pace,...
Many organizations looking to leverage Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) may have concerns when it comes to recouping past investment in existing in-house infrastructure. That’s where Microsoft Azure...
View ArticleEverything You Need to know About Microsoft Azure
How much does Azure cost? This is a question that virtually everyone has had when they started looking at the Microsoft Azure cloud offerings. The reason this question isn’t as straightforward as it...
View ArticleSDx: A Choice You May Have Already Made
I am here to argue that if you are already using a major cloud provider, you are in effect using software defined networking and services. I will refer to the software defined data center as SDx...
View Article2 Quick Steps for Incrementally Migrating to Office 365
Microsoft Office 365 offers a substantially different — and far superior — way of optimizing knowledge worker productivity. But because accessing productivity software from the cloud is so different...
View ArticleCloud Computing: It’s not what you think it is.
There’s a problem with the technology that we’ve come to know as “cloud.” The cloud is not what you think it is. You see, every computer user assigns a definition to the technology they use and it...
View ArticleOffice 365: What Content Belongs Where?
Being productive requires simple, effective and secure ways to collaborate. Email is no longer an effective way to share documents. Within email, every document attached is an unnecessary copy;...
View ArticleConverging Cloud Platforms for Managed Systems
At the end of January, Amazon Web Services announced the preview of a new enterprise email service called Amazon WorkMail, designed to challenge the two largest enterprise messaging vendors: Microsoft...
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