How Much Did our VMware Cloud Study Cost? – Running POCs
What’s the real value of a Proof of Concept (POC), and is there enough value to pay for it. I’ll run down the (sanitized) cost of what it took for us to run the comparison of three of the four …
The Demise of the Platform Team – Let’s Blame OpenStack
Did you change your governance structure as a result of Public Cloud adoption within your organization? Have you found that application owners are still bypassing your centralized offering and going directly to Public Cloud providers? And finally, do you find …
The Myth of M & A and Multi-Cloud
So, you read a white paper on Kubernetes, and now you want to apply a multi-cloud strategy to your IT infrastructure? As my industry friend Amy Lewis loves to say, “Bless your heart.” Multi-cloud isn’t as simple as taking an …
Cloud Migration Rookie Mistakes – Virtual IP Addressing
TCP/IP all things! The public Cloud is the ultimate software-defined network. By design, Layer-2 networking isn’t exposed to customers in any major cloud provider except for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. For these networks, implementing concepts such as zero-trust becomes a default …
Talented People Create Data Gravity
Talent creates data gravity. The ability to innovate depends on talented people accessing and collaborating on the same data. Analysts talk about data analytics as if its the coming of the new industrial revolution.
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Master’s Lesson in IT Management
During CommvaultGo Tech Field Day Extra, University of Leicester presented their migration of their underlying storage infrastructure for backing up 20PB of data. That’s a big IT challenge whether you are all in on cloud or you are storing data …