It never takes long, when I talk with people about cloud computing, before the question comes up. “How do I move my application to the cloud?” Oftentimes, the resistance that lurks in that question points to the hidden question that should be answered first: “Why should I move my application to the cloud?”. And the […]
It has been a while since I spent time in developing countries; you know, the countries where I am the only person of European descent around, which makes me stick out like a lighthouse at sea. My tallness only accentuates that. I travelled through India first, delivering training and having some business meetings. India is […]
This week I am honored to train government officials in Bangladesh, most of whom work for the Bangladesh Computer Council. With 25 learners, this is one of my largest groups so far. The scope of the training is Cloud Essentials as well as Virtualization Essentials. As Bangladesh is one of the poorer countries in the […]
In this post on the importance of cloud essentials training, Ron Hogue makes a strong case for this type of training to enhance your career. You might prefer to watch the video (and you might want to subscribe to his blog or Youtube channel for weekly updates): As Ron puts it: Does recent cloud news […]
The single most often asked question around cloud computing is “what about security”. Yes, what about security? I have been training people on cloud computing and virtualization for the past 12 months or so based on the ITpreneurs and CompTIA certifications (see my cloud course offerings), and I was aware of the CCSK certification. Recently […]
How do cloud applications scale, what can go wrong if they do, and how would you test that? These are some of the questions that my guest post on cloud scalability at Blazemeter touches upon. Blazemeter, by the way, is a cloud based load testing service.
Amazon has close to half a million servers, according to research done by Huan Liu of Accenture. This is impressive, though not as big as Google which according to my estimates of almost two years ago has around two and a half million servers (see Google server count). Of course, both these numbers are guesses […]
Is Cloud Essentials the right course for you? Many people ask me this question, so I have compiled a brief list of questions to help you in answering it. Here is a list of the questions that you should be able to answer after the Cloud Essentials course. If you think you know the answer […]
Just a few interesting points from a report on a Washington cloud conference recently. In the [US] federal government, which carries a roughly $80 billion annual IT budget, the question of cloud computing is no longer a question of “if,” but rather “how,” and “how soon.” That is an interesting observation, but we say that one coming, […]
Here is a recording of a panel on cloud performance, held at the recent CMG’11 annual conference of the Computer Measurement Group (see http://www.cmg.org). The topic of the panel was: “Is Cloud Computing a source of solutions or a source of new problems for performance engineering or is it a solution to old problems”? Our […]