When discussing private cloud, questions often come up about how the big boys are doing it; Google, Amazon, Microsoft, etc. The thinking is that the large scale data centers they are running can teach us lessons about smaller scale infrastructure for private clouds, which, on the surface, seems to make…
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Thought Experiment – Forget ROI
Boys and girls, today’s homework assignment is a thought experiment. I want you all to put yourselves in the shoes of the CxO team making a decision to move to private cloud. There is of course one catch; you may not factor in ROI. We’re dropping ROI because it clouds…
Ignoring BYOD Spells Disaster!
Last week in a blog titled "BYOD–Bring Your Own Disaster," I urged caution and scope for BYOD projects. This week I’m playing devil’s advocate with myself. A conversation with Greg Knieriemen (@knieriemen) got me thinking of the consequences of ignoring BYOD. Let’s dive into the risk of burying your head…
Horton Hears Hadoop
I’m feeling Seuss-ish so here goes (Line 1 and 2 by Ken Oestreich @fountnhead.) Of this poem you should first realize, of course, Is based on Big Data, and code open-source. On disk that was spinning sat data quite large So much that in fact it would fill up a…
The Idle Cycle Conundrum
One of the advantages of a private cloud architecture is the flexible pooling of resources that allows rapid change to match business demands. These resource pools adapt to the changing demands of existing services and allow for new services to be deployed rapidly. For these pools to maintain adequate performance,…
Blades are Not the Future
Kevin Houston, Founder of Blades Made Simple and all around server and blade rocket surgeon, posted an excellent thought provoking article titled ‘Why Blade Servers Will Be the Core of Future Data Centers ( http://bladesmadesimple.com/2011/10/why-blade-servers-will-be-the-core-of-future-data-centers/.) The article is his predictions and thoughts on the way in which the server industry…
Choosing The Right Private Cloud Storage
One of the key decisions in architecting an infrastructure for private cloud is selecting a storage platform for the deployment. Storage is a key component of the infrastructure and will play a major role in the overall performance of the private cloud. The storage decision carries additional weight due to…
WWT’s Geek Day 2012
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Private Cloud: It’s Not About ROI
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….
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…