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, […]
Strategy
VMworld 2016 US: Keynote highlights
2016 is going to go down as a big year for VMware. This marks the year where we saw a real pivot away from the Hypervisor and towards being a […]
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 […]
Funding for Digital Initiatives
Why adopt public cloud if it is relatively more expensive than on premise IT? An answer for many is the agility it affords to try new things and deliver business change […]
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 […]
Cloud Journey Part 3: Research and Scoping – The first real steps on the road to Cloud
I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts. – Bill Gates I’ve used a number of sources […]