Multi Cloud and Dell Technologies – my opinion
I will preface this blog post and state that this is very much my own opinion and interpretation of where Multi Cloud is headed and where Dell Technologies fits in, […]
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True Private Cloud & Hybrid IaaS
No blogs for nearly five months – not great, but crikey what a busy 6 months I’ve had! Q3 & Q4 2015 saw me join a new business, address some […]
Cloud Native Application Architectures Part 1: What infrastructure?
New challenges for the Infrastructure guy As a seasoned Infrastructure Architect (directly contributing to the salt and pepper seasoned hair colour…) I have seen changes over the years that have impacted on […]
Public Cloud – all things to all people?
One lesson I have taken away recently is that when using public cloud providers that are working at the ‘hyper scale’ end of the spectrum i.e. AWS, Azure and Google, […]
New Role, More Cloud
So the finance sector has been left behind to pursue the Cloud dream in the retail / leisure sector! Once the Cloud project in my last role hit the delivery […]
Cloud Journey Part 8 – The Solution
So to the techie bits! Once the dust has settled on the tender process the organisation opted for a solution that gave a solid base to build a Private Cloud on, […]
Cloud Journey Part 7 – The forgotten post – Taking advantage of Cloud
One of the early deliverables I was asked for was a discussion paper highlighting what Cloud was, what it meant to the organisation I worked for and how it could […]
Cloud Journey Part 6: Going to Tender
Ultimately we published our requirements into a request for information (RFI) and distributed out to service providers and systems integrators in the UK in order to understand the types of […]
Cloud Journey Part 5: Getting the Requirements Defined
The workshops described in the last post helped us flesh out requirements that we could take to our business sponsors’ to get some buy in for the project. The business […]
Cloud Journey Part 4: The Gap Analysis – EMC CR9 and Cisco Domain 10
Aside some of the more impartial discussion with Gartner, we took a couple of free consultancy offerings from EMC and Cisco which were targeted at creating a baseline of where […]