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Cloud in 2020

Migration, Security According to Forrester less than half of all enterprises use a public cloud platform right now. However, recent research by 451 Research de…

Cloud Monitoring Tools

Some Key Cloud Platform Monitoring tools. Nagios: Industry standard for Linux OS monitoring. The OS is the key in IT. It determines your deployments, ops and p…

AWS DevSecOps Patterns CI-CD

Security must be built within the Dev-Ops process, of building, testing, deploying and then supporting that application stack. Security refers to the security …

AWS DevSecOps Services, ROI, Use Cases

DevSecOps ROI The best ROI is not to body-shop engineers but provide a holistic approach to transformation and improvement which drives business-value for clie…

Ansible and Jenkins – Orchestration and Configuration

Ansible and Jenkins – Configuration and Orchestration A common approach to create an automated pipeline is to combine 2 platforms to orchestrate and then deplo…

AWS Big Data Landscape

There are many ways to construct a big data flow on AWs depending on the time, skills, budgets, objective and operational support. Key architectural principle …

Cloud Management Platforms, IaaS Management Platforms (IMP)

IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. Add in a Cloud Management Platform or CMP. There are grey areas between IaaS and PaaS and for multi-cloud, hybrid environments, which can…

Migrating Oracle to Azure, tips and tricks

With cloud deployments there is increasingly a general business-led impetus, to choose ‘one cloud’. This is to reduce complexity, perhaps costs, enforce standa…

Serverless overview, principles, case example on AWS

1.Purpose: Serverless computing POCs will best illustrate what approach to use. Costs, management, simplicity, concurrency, using micro-services or containers;…

‘Digital Transformation’, do a reality check first

Realty Check: 4 stages to Application modernisation, or ‘Digital Transformation’ and why Enterprise Architects are important KTA: Stop reading the Gartner Grou…

Networking Virtualisation, an overview

There are critical concepts which undergird network virtualization, and in particular market-leading products or platforms such as VMware NSX (network virtuali…