There are many reasons to use cloud resources, and there are many reasons to enter the cloud, of which we have spoken about fairly regularly as part of our IT Transformation series. The real question is: “When should you use cloud services?” Or, more to the point, “When should you use new cloud services in …
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The Cloud, Where Automation Is King
The cloud, where automation is king. There is no doubt that the modern-day data center has changed dramatically since the turn of the century. Virtualization or some form of cloud computing has become the norm, and with this new technology comes the need for new skill sets.
IT Transformation: Show Back
The last part of our IT transformation series is on show-back. The final—some say the first—component of using any cloud for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is cost. We plan to use a cloud to save on costs, but we have to be able to prove we will save money. Unfortunately, with all the approaches …
Scale-Out Is a Benefit to HyperConverged
I recently upgraded my nodes from 96 GB of memory to 256 GB of memory, and someone on Twitter stated the following: @Texiwill thought the trend today is scale out not scale up? #cloud The implication was that you never upgrade your hardware: you buy new or you enter the cloud. Granted, both options are …
Deploying Amazon WorkSpaces at Scale
I’ve made no secret of my dissatisfaction with Amazon’s WorkSpaces DaaS platform. While I like the general direction in which the platform is heading, and appreciate the impact that Amazon can have in the DaaS market, WorkSpaces has been slow to implement enterprise-class management features and suffers from too many rough edges to withstand close …
Business Performance and Agility: Are We Measuring the Correct Metrics?
In the EUC world, it is euphemistically stated that the only performance metric that counts is user experience. What this means is that from a business and management perspective, it does not matter a single jot how much green is showing in your NOC view; if your users are not happy, you have a problem. …
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