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Cloud Multi-tenancy Includes Network Bandwidth

There's been a lot of discussion about multi-tenancy since the arrival of cloud computing. Multi-tenancy is the act of hosting multiple non-related resource allocations on the same hardware. For...

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Cloud Enables Big Business to Play Like SMBs

I can store pedabytes of data in the cloud. I can run my E-mail, communications, CRM, HR and Accounting in the cloud. My employees can live and work anywhere in the world thanks to the cloud. The...

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Thar Be Danger in That PaaS

There's a lot of momentum behind moving to Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for delivery of applications on the cloud, but is there enough maturity in PaaS to deploy a mission-critical application? Here's...

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Defining DevOps

Recently a member of the LinkedIn DevOps group started a discussion entitled, “Concise description of DevOps?” This member’s post focused on clarifying DevOps as a role mainly for the purposes of...

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There Is No ROI in Cloud Computing

Return-on-Investment (ROI), perhaps the biggest crock-of-$%@& metric ever applied to the information technology industry. How does one measure return? If we use monetary return, then the question,...

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Cloud and Tablets Favor the Content Publisher . . .

I recently added a Vizio tablet to my list of technological acquisitions. It’s a relatively good Android-based tablet that is very reasonably priced compared to equivalent functional models. However, I...

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Cloud Conundrum: Private Cloud Computing With A Pay-for-Use Model

One of the touted benefits of cloud computing is supposed to be that it is a metered service. Much like your water and electric, the cloud is supposed to allow users to access compute resources as...

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To Win the Cloud Computing War - Become the Platform

Steve Yegge, a Google engineer, recently posted a long rant on Google+ about how Amazon does everything wrong and Google does everything right. Probably the most traffic generated for Google+ since...

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Start Building Your Next-Generation IT Department Now

David Johnson’s Blog piece really got my goat. In this piece, “Meet Jamie - A HERO With The Power To Force Change,” Johnson paints a sales representative that has rejected his IT department’s choices...

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Adventures in Cloudwashing: Are You the Cloud Or in the Cloud?

Anyone who is working intimately with cloud computing and having critical conversations regarding this medium will eventually be party to the “cloudwashing” conversation. Cloudwashing: the activity of...

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Why Poor Data Classification in Government Will Impact BYOD

In recent discussions with IT leaders from both federal and Department of Defense sides of US government, representatives stated that they are having a heck of a time accommodating expansive growth in...

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Cloud Needs Application Architects to Understand IaaS

Application development has been moving in the direction of platform abstraction. That is, the need for developers to have detailed knowledge of the infrastructure that the application was being...

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The Path to the Intelligent Cloud

Let's face it right now the cloud is pretty immature. The level of automation and management of these environments are analogous to the early assembly lines, but it won't be this way long. This is not...

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IT-as-a-Service and the Facebook Effect

I’ve recently been theorizing around a new model for IT transformation. There’s anecdotal evidence that, in general, business problems tend to change slower than the rate of technology innovation....

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The Key to Private Cloud Is Removing IT Stratification

One of the leading problems plaguing IT organizations is the high costs of operations and maintenance.  The industry average is roughly 70% with some organizations going as high as 90%. Picking apart...

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What Does GRC and Las Vegas Have to Do with IT?

In the spirit of leaving Las Vegas I started thinking about the transformation of Las Vegas from a desert oasis created by organized crime to a billion-dollar industry. How did big business and Wall...

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Cloud Should Be Defined By What It Will Become, Not What It Is Today

There’s been a lot of discussion about what makes cloud computing different than other forms of computing that have come before. Some refer to the set of attributes set forth by NIST, while others rely...

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If It’s Not Working As Expected, It May Be The Installer

For the 1st time in my life after owning three homes I am in the position of having to replace my air conditioning unit. The company I chose to purchase and install the new unit told me the name of the...

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Notes from the Field: Inside a Real World Large-Scale Cloud Deployment

I’ve been granted an incredible opportunity. Over the past three and a half months I have gotten to lead a real world large-scale delivery of a cloud solution. The final solution will be delivered as...

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The Macro and Micro of Multi-tenancy Regarding Private Cloud

I was recently reviewing some sales and marketing materials regarding building out Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). Part of these materials included attributes of IaaS, one of which is...

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Transformation Is More Important Than Cloud

On the surface it looks to be a chicken and egg problem. Is cloud driving IT transformation or is IT transformation driving cloud’s growth? The movement to cloud requires a shift in approach for many...

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A Design for an Agile Cloud Management Platform

In the early part of 2013, EMC announced a new storage virtualization product called ViPR that delivers a software interface to block, object and HDFS storage services layered on heterogeneous storage....

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Without a Strong PaaS, ITaaS, DevOps & IaaS Fall Short

To lower IT operational costs and/or to become more agile, the business must simplify the processes to deliver and manage infrastructure and the applications running on that infrastructure. Focusing on...

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In IaaS and PaaS Convergence, It’s PaaS That Should Lead

Recent commentaries by cloud industry luminaries Reuven Cohen & Krishnan Subramanian address key issues related to relative importance and potential longevity of an independent...

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DevOps Master: Building Bridges Between Dev and Ops

I will admit I have been a strong opponent of those listing roles and organizations as DevOps. Primarily because DevOps is a way to do something and creating a role DevOps Engineer is just putting...

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Essential Characteristics of PaaS

There's been a lot of discussion on the Internet about the definition of Platform-as-a-Service. Here's just a few very active Twitter discussions to illustrate the level of activity and passion over...

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Cloud Computing, DevOps and Business Velocity

Cloud computing and DevOps are certainly taking the world by storm with promises of transforming the way that business will access and use technology. Cloud computing represents the consolidation of...

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Excuse Me Ms. Shannon-Solomon, But DevOps Is Great For Enterprises

On May 13th, Rachel Shannon-Solomon wrote an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal’s CIO Journal section entitled “DevOps Is Great for Startups, but for Enterprises It Won’t Work-Yet.” In this...

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It’s A Multi-Vendor Cloud World

Experts say that cloud computing is disruptive and then continue on to discuss how the cloud quickly enables innovation while competition between cloud service providers drive costs down. Both of these...

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SaaS Represents the Commoditization of Business Function

North Bridge in partnership with GigaOm Research released their 2014 Future of Cloud Computing – 4th Annual Survey Results. As you examine the 124 slides, one thing is obvious that the greatest growth...

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IaaS POC Proves to Be Informative

Regardless if you’ve migrated multiple applications or this is your first migration to a public Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) you will want to run a small proof-of-concept to make sure that the...

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@CloudExpo | PaaS Stumbles [@JPMorgenthal]

Over the past couple of days Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) has taken some hard knocks in the press. See here and here. PaaS has always had a hard life. It’s typical middle child syndrome. It’s older...

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Can Telcos Succeed As #Cloud Providers? By @JPMorgenthal | @CloudExpo

Someone sent me a link to this article this morning. While reading it I started to think about the competitive landscape for cloud service providers and the challenges telcos have competing in this...

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PaaS is the Operating System By @JPMorgenthal | @DevOpsSummit [#DevOps]

When I took my operating systems fundamentals course in college I was taught that an operating system provides very specific capabilities that provides users with access compute resources for building...

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Perhaps You Prefer Cloudy Concepts By @JPMorgenthal | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]

As I continue to engage customers around cloud and DevOps, I am amazed at the percentage of customers where there is pushback against cloud computing. Even more interesting are the reasons and roles...

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Software Testing Is Too Critical By @JPMorgenthal | @DevOpsSummit [#DevOps]

Today’s software testing practices are abysmal. You’re a major provider of health insurance services to general consumers. Your website is a primary means of interacting with your customers and...

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Financial Sense of #PaaS By @JPMorgenthal | @DevOpsSummit [#DevOps]

Being a huge supporter of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), specifically, container-based PaaS, such as CloudFoundry and Heroku, I decided to apply my pricing experience to hacking up an estimate for...

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Making Financial Sense of #PaaS, Part II @DevOpsSummit [#DevOps]

As pointed out by Mark, it’s very easy to make the cloud look financially attractive when pricing out a single application versus a portfolio of applications. Indeed, I would have to agree one of the...

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Major Paradigm Shift By @JPMorgenthal | @DevOpsSummit [#DevOps #PaaS...

There’s a lot of discussion around managing outages in production via the likes of DevOps principles and the corresponding software development lifecycles that does enable higher quality output from...

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DevOps Is the Future of SIAM | @CloudExpo #DevOps #IoT #Microservices

Enterprises with internally sourced IT operations typically struggle with typical tensions associated with siloed application and infrastructure organizations. They are characterized by finger pointing...

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WordPress Docker Container | @DevOpsSummit #DevOps #Docker #Microservices

I have an article in the recently released “DZone Guide to Building and Deploying Applications on the Cloud” entitled “Fullstack Engineering in the Age of Hybrid Cloud”. In this article I discuss the...

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Modernization or Transformation | @ThingsExpo #IoT #Cloud #DigitalTransformation

Much of IT terminology is often misused and misapplied. Modernization and transformation are two such terms. They are often used interchangeably even though they mean different things and have very...

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What Will You Do with IoT? | @ThingsExpo #BigData #IoT #IIoT #M2M #API

When the Internet of Things (IoT) started to emerge as a popular topic, I had to stop and ask myself if I was once again going to provide commentary on this emerging field. I enjoy exploring new...

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A Reality Check on 'Everyone’s Moving Everything to the Cloud' | @CloudExpo...

A recent CIO editorial by Bernard Golden regarding the future of private cloud spurred some interesting commentary in my network. The pushback seemed to focus around the viability of the term “private...

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Hard Choices Are Required When Adopting a Cloud Operating Model

When was the last time you’ve ever heard anyone say “IT Applications & Operations”? Frankly, in my 30+ year career in IT, I don’t believe I’ve ever heard anyone use this term. The typical term we...

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The Anonymous Neighbor Problem in IT | @CloudExpo #Cloud #DigitalTransformation

COMED, my power company, sends out a monthly report that shows me my energy consumption relative to my neighbors. Every month I’m considerably higher than all my neighbors. This report also has a list...

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The Curious Case of the WordPress Docker Container and the Devious XML-RPC...

Republished from 04/29 as it was lost due to a Docker Container crash… Irony! I have an article in the recently released “DZone Guide to Building and Deploying Applications on the Cloud” entitled...

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Technology of the Year for 2016 | @CloudExpo #IoT #AI #FinTech #Blockchain

We’re starting to see predictions about what’s going to be hot in enterprise technology in 2017. Cloud (yet again), Blockchain, Big Data / Analytics, Internet of Things (IoT) are all among the top of...

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Time for the Tail to Stop Wagging the Dog | @CloudExpo #API #Cloud #Agile

Here’s a novel, but controversial statement, “it’s time for the CEO, COO, CIO to start to take joint responsibility for application platform decisions.” For too many years now technical meritocracy has...

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The Two Faces of #Microservices | @CloudExpo @JPMorgenthal #AI #DevOps

Microservices (μServices) are a fascinating evolution of the Distributed Object Computing (DOC) paradigm. Initial design of DOC attempted to solve the problem of simplifying developing complex...

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