AWS Technology
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 …
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IaaS and PaaSCloud 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…
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MigrationMigrating 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…
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AWS TechnologyServerless 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;…
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Application Transformation‘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…
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VirtualizationNetworking 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…
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MigrationMigrating an estate out of an existing Data Centre
Migrating an entire estate out of a Data-Center or Co-Location facility is difficult. The most cited reasons are usually: ~Projects exceed time, budget, migrat…
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Cloud Design GoalsExample of a failed Micro-Services project and why Monoliths are valid
An excellent article on the perils of moving to Micro-services from a failed real world project is here. It is simply a myth that ‘all firms’, and ‘all project…
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Cloud ModelsThe Cloud and the IT Stack by layer
The IT Stack. Cloud computing encompasses the entire IT Stack. This needs to be kept in mind when deploying applications, looking at dependencies, modelling se…
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Dev, Test, OptimisationCloud Containerisation and Automation: a pattern and approach
With Cloud computing, and inside VLEs and the IT media industry, there is a groupthink that all technological innovation is now ‘Digital Transformation’. This …
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AWS TechnologyInnovative Solution: Migrating Expensive Oracle Licenses to AWS non-Oracle EC2
In many VLEs (Very Large Enterprises), Oracle estates can run a majority of the business services. However, these clusters of Oracle licenses are extremely exp…
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VirtualizationNetwork Virtualisation vs Network Appliances
Networking functions can be delivered via Virtual Appliances (ready‐to‐go virtual machines that run on a hypervisor). Virtual appliances are usually designed t…
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