So you want to run a private cloud? Here are a few steps to take for you to make this a success. The first step is to answer the question: why? Which business benefits of cloud computing are you after and why can’t you use public cloud solutions to fulfill them? If you want to […]
Here are two brief videos shot at the recent CloudExpo. They demonstrate the strong industry backing for the Cloud Essentials training that ITpreneurs and I developed. These videos feature, amongst others, Cazzy Jordan and Allen Ureta, who were in my first Train the Trainer program in Baltimore last year. First video Here is the second video.
Moving to a SaaS desktop environment such as Google Apps or Microsoft 365 has proven to be a compelling proposition for a number of companies. In particular companies operating in travel and retail find that cloud based ‘office’ environments are a good fit with their mobile workforces. Apparently, the move is often triggered by the […]
Last week I delivered a two-day CCSK (certificate of cloud security knowledge) in Kuala Lumpur. The typical structure of this training, as suggested by the Cloud Security Alliance, calls for a day of lecture followed by a day of practical exercises. However, I mixed lecture with case study and exercise, because I have experienced that […]
How good is ‘Google Sites’ as a web hosting platform? For my contribution to the Computer Measurement Group’s (CMG) yearly conference (CMG Las Vegas 2012) I am reviewing a number of webhosting options. One of the basic options is ‘Google Sites’, which is a content management system (CMS) with hosting and a content distribution network, […]
Amazon Web Services’ S3 can be a pretty good and cheap approach to webhosting, serving files at a cost of  cents per 1000 hits. How much of an improvement would it be to serve these files out of Amazon’s Cloudfront, the content delivery service that caches content around the world? Here are the results of […]
What do you do when somebody comes to live next door and spoils the whole neighborhood? They leave, you leave or you learn to live with it?
What does that have to do with cloud computing? I will give you an example.
Just to let you know that I created a brief note about 5 organisations that got value from using cloud computing. It is brief, but explains the main business reason and how they did it. Examples include profit and nonprofit businesses, public cloud and private cloud. You can get immediate access to it by filling […]