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 […]
Cloud Journey Part 2: Its all about the Server…. or is it?
I mentioned in the last blog post that one of the issues I had with a Microsoft Private Cloud POC I built for a subsidiary was that it was too […]
Cloud Journey Part 1: An introduction and a brief history
The journey towards a private cloud data centre, which may encompass the leveraging new technologies, new processes, new service delivery models and potentially changes to roles and responsibilities, can seem […]