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The Ugly Breakup: Time for Your Apps to Part

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on May 4, 2012

The marketing is there, and has been for some time. Buzzwords have been coined and your interest is piqued. You sat back long enough to see if this was just vaporware or real, while gaseous. Cloud turns out to be more solid than its nomenclature. Youâ€™re ready, in fact youâ€™re all in. Now the bad […]

Zero to Private Cloud in 8 Steps

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on May 4, 2012

Here are eight steps for going from zero to private cloud. Note that I didnâ€™t say eight "easy" steps. But donâ€™t let that bother you--nothing thatâ€™s easy is ever worth doing anyway. 1. Define business objectives for cloud migration. 2. Prioritize objectives. 3. Create and promote your cloud vision and strategy. 4. Identify organizational readiness. […]

Your IT is Broken

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on March 15, 2012

Right this minute your data center(s) are broken. You, monitoring systems or NOC may or may not know it. All of the blinky lights may be green, all systems reporting normal, but the data center is broken, and itâ€™s costing you money and business agilityâ€¦ Full article at: http://www.networkcomputing.com/data-center/232602496 Related posts: Choosing The Right Private […]

Private Cloud Lessons You Can't Learn From Amazon, Google, Etc

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on March 13, 2012

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 sense. Take the lessons learned […]

Thought Experiment - Forget ROI

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on January 24, 2012

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 the subject (bad pun intended.) […]

Ignoring BYOD Spells Disaster!

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on January 3, 2012

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 in the sand and ignoring […]

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