Cloud Benefits, Trends
2017 Aligning IS, Cloud to the Business
According to a late 2016 survey by RightScale, the market leading Cloud Management Platform SaaS, cloud adoption is on the rise as companies and cloud provider…
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Cloud Design GoalsCloud Strategy based on Business, IT and Data Strategy
Why move applications and IT to the Cloud? Firms have a Business Strategy. IT must support that strategy. Within IT there should be a Data Strategy. The Data S…
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SecurityCloud Security Best Practices 2
Security Best of Breed Practices and Realities A longer paper on security best of breed practices following on from a previous article on the same topic. Netwo…
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MigrationApplications to the Cloud, Self-Assessment Checklist
Application to Cloud, Self-Assessment Checklist Assessing or evaluating your existing applications and moving them to the Cloud, is often the most time consumi…
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SaaS CRMMoving Apps to the Cloud
Application Transformation Methodology Every modernized datacenter or cloud will provide, at a minimum, the basic VM infrastructure, storage, and network servi…
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SaaS CRMBest Practices and Trends – Software engineering
Software Engineering and being Agile Software development and package creation is now an endless cycle of innovation and enhancements. In that regard best of b…
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IaaS and PaaSCloud Infrastructure & Data Center Architecture
The Cloud infrastructure is built on Servers, SAN and VM. Cloud vendors will deploy largely similar infrastructure in order to facilitate Cloud deployments and…
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Cloud Design GoalsCloud Management Systems and Disaster Recovery Best Practices
CLOUD MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS A key objective of a cloud management system, indeed of a Cloud platform in general, is to provide the customer a portal (usually web-…
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Cloud Design GoalsBest practices – Security, Automation, Monitoring
Operational Transformation Best Practices Based on lessons learned and experience from across the cloud industry, the following best practices should be consid…
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SaaS CRMLarger firms need to customize SaaS
Customized cloud solutions are usually necessary in order to produce software which matches the specific features and goals of the business. Many ERP-Cloud ven…
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IaaS and PaaSCloud Availability and Capacity Characteristics
Key characteristics of a truly cloud-enabled environment include: Multi-tenancy, Redundancy, Failover, Availability, Capacity [of the underlying hardware and m…
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Cloud Design GoalsCloud Architectures Best practices
Cloud reference architectures Cloud Design Goals – AWS as an example A system that is truly cloud enabled should have the following attributes: Multi Tiered [u…
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