Virtualization
Network Virtualisation and the difference with VLANs, SDNs
Network virtualization is an important, though usually overlooked part of moving toward a Software Defined Data Center or SDDC. For network-connected workloads…
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VirtualizationNetwork Virtualisation and Cloud Transformation
SDDC and Networking One important trend in Cloud Computing is the virtualization of the Data Center. A Software-Defined-Data-Center or SDDC, is an environment …
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AgileWhen to use Agile and some challenges
When should firms use Agile? The short answer is that within IT, it should be the de-facto methodology for development, migration and delivery of IT projects. …
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MigrationSteps when performing a migration
The following steps are performed when doing a migration. Use Agile teams of SMEs to do POCs to determine the right approach. HLD signed off by the client, ove…
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AgileAgile Centre of Excellence (COE)
Within VLE’s (very large enterprises), the culture of silo’s is difficult to fracture and re-arrange. Waterfall or traditional methods of IT management and dep…
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Application TransformationRPC, REST, Message Broking
\ RPC and Middleware Distributed computing, with clients calling servers or remote resources was originally premised on Remote procedure calls (RPC), a protoco…
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Cloud Design GoalsTOGAF and its relevance to building sound architectures
TOGAF and the Architecture ‘Continuum’ Definitions: TOGAF: The Open Group Architecture Framework Continuum: A continuous extent or succession from a starting p…
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Application TransformationWeb Services, REST, SOAP, APIs
Web systems, APIs, Microservices The web works in the following basic way: clients (web browsers) make requests to web servers, making GET requests to download…
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Cloud Design Goals9 key Architectural Principles that should drive Architectural Target Models and Deployment.
9 key Architectural Principles that should drive Architectural Target Models and Deployment. Architecture Principle 1: Align IS to the Business Strategy and pu…
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AWS TechnologyMigrating to AWS (or the cloud in general): Road-map
AWS provides Infrastructure as a Service or IaaS and elastic computing resources. AWS is actually several ‘clouds’ regionally-based, named as Data Centres and …
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Database Design for High end ApplicationsOLTP, OLAP, Columnar Data Stores – overview
All VLEs (very large enterprises) will have a mix of transaction, analytical and data storage technologies. ‘Polyglot’ may refer to the variations in the datab…
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Database Design for High end ApplicationsSchema, Encoding, JSON, XML
Schema details Application developers who understand the internals of the storage engine (s) within the TOM (target operating model); are in a very good positi…
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