Virtualization
Managing Cloud Deployments
Managing cloud systems and orchestrating workloads is a primary concern as well as a learning curve for organisations deploying a cloud architecture. Important…
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Cloud Design GoalsCloud Native Characteristics
PCF is the market leading PaaS platform and very useful if deploying on Azure and other Cloud IaaS models. Migrating, refactoring or building apps to be ‘Cloud…
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Cloud Design GoalsCloud Native versus Traditional Applications
Cloud Native vs Traditional IT Most Cloud Platforms are trending towards breaking down monolithic services into ‘micro’ or discrete services. An example would …
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Cloud Design GoalsKey Cloud Design Goal: Redundancy, High Availability
Redundancy, Availability, Continuity, and Disaster Recovery A key benefit of virtualising the infrastructure is to construct a platform which provides best-of-…
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VirtualizationVirtual Machine Management
Virtual Machine Management – key aspects of automating the process Managing VMs in the Cloud is usually manual, intrusive and time consuming. It would in…
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VirtualizationVM CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT – 5 key concepts
An automated VM-cloud management system populates the configuration management database, with the server and compute resource detail of the VMS; as part of an …
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Cloud Design GoalsPhases and Categories of TOGAF and building robust Architectures
Architectures are iterative creations. They are not sequential, waterfall processes. This obviously means that iterative methodologies such as Agile-Scrum are …
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Cloud Design GoalsTOGAF and the Architecture ‘Continuum’
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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SecurityCloud Security Best Practices – an implementation framework
You cannot deploy into the cloud unless the security model is a part of the original design. Using Agile and other mature approaches to deployment, the securit…
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Dev, Test, OptimisationCloud Development and Testing – Best practices
The Benefits of using the Cloud for Development and Testing Customers benefit from a Dev/Test by being able to quickly launch new VMs within minutes, perform t…
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AgileWhat is Agile in practice
Link to the complete presentation is here. Agile is usually amended to suit the exact use case in question. Some Agile projects will fail due to a lack of trai…
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MigrationDetails on how to migrate On-Premise Applications to the Cloud
Migration Best Practices When migrating on-premise estate into the Cloud, some practical steps are followed. The following is an overview of how to take a data…
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