Most private cloud discussions revolve around the return on investment of the architecture. Many discussions begin and quickly end with ROI. The reason is that ROI is very difficult to show in real numbers for any IT investment, but more so when the majority of the costs are soft costs….
Month: September 2011
The Business Suit: Spinach and Kryptonite
For VMworld this year I decided to pack heavy. I spent the week in suits rather than my typical IT polos and jeans, slacks and shirts type attire. No particular reasoning for the change although the factors were along the lines of: change of pace, stepping it up, and ‘It’s…
How to Boost Cloud Reliability
Clouds fail. That’s a fact. But if your company uses business apps that are tied to the availability of public cloud services, you can—and must—take steps to mitigate these failures by getting schooled on a few key factors: service-level agreements (SLAs), redundancy options, application design, and the type of service…