Cloud Models
Cloud Deployment Models and Hybrid Cloud Computing
Most large, complex organizations, firms and business models will likely use a ‘hybrid cloud’ model. Smaller firms can use a ‘public cloud mo…
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Dev, Test, OptimisationDevelopment and Test as a Service [DTaaS]
A Development and Test as a Service (also called Dev/Test) offering technically fits within the definition of PaaS with several unique features that facilitate…
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Dev, Test, OptimisationCloud Management Platforms: Software Applications, Integration, Packages, Orchestration
Integration of COTS with the Cloud; Docker, Containers and APIs. Cloud management systems have varied capabilities to provision and administer industry-leading…
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Dev, Test, OptimisationCloud: Setting up Orchestration workflows and automation
Source: IDC study 2016 http://siliconangle.com/blog/2016/09/20/cisco-backed-study-finds-few-firms-have-optimized-cloud-plans/ An ‘orchestration system’ is esse…
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Dev, Test, OptimisationCloud Management Platform Architecture
Cloud management systems vary greatly in their features, ease of use, flexibility, and cost. A cloud provider (or private cloud operator) can develop its own c…
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Cloud Design GoalsMapping Cloud Characteristics to Business Issues
Mapping Cloud Characteristics to Business Issues As organizations move critical compute, storage, and application systems to cloud providers, several additiona…
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Cloud Benefits, Trends2017 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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