Strategy

The importance of devops when doing data center consolidation or a cloud migration

By nunogodinho

Introduction Currently there are a lot of companies going through the process of performing Data Center consolidation and/or Cloud migration of their IT systems. This generally aligns with the goal of cutting costs, being more agile to adjust to business needs, provide faster provisioning, better management and so on. One of the things which is generally considered is the low “hanging fruits” which in this case is generally the infrastructure pieces leaving all the applications as they are. This is a good way to start but also potentially can create other issues like “fat fingers” since with a better provisioning … Continue reading The importance of devops when doing data center consolidation or a cloud migration

Why do #Cloud Strategies fail? Applicable to #WindowsAzure, #AWS or #PrivateCloud

By nunogodinho

Introduction Lately I’ve been doing a lot of Cloud Strategies for different company sizes, from small to Large Enterprises with multi-billion dollar revenue. By doing that I’ve found a lot of common mistakes which make the Cloud Strategies to fail and in some cases “badly”. Due to this I decided to write a bit about what I think are some of the important reasons for those failures so it the “ride to the cloud can become smoother”. Common Cloud Strategy Mistakes So here’s a small list of some of the things which can destroy any Cloud Strategy: Overlooking the Business … Continue reading Why do #Cloud Strategies fail? Applicable to #WindowsAzure, #AWS or #PrivateCloud