With multiple cloud providers, possibly including private clouds and internal IT, how do you make this manageable for the user? How can you create a single user name that can be used across all these services? Ideally, the user needs to login only once. This is often called ‘Single sign on’ or SSO. The big […]
When I talk or write about cloud computing, the first questions that come to the minds of people are: How do I know my data is stored in a safe way? Think: crashes, outages, viruses, providers going bankrupt etc. How do I know other people don’t touch my data? Think: hackers, criminals, our government, another […]
One of my course participants came back to me after I wrote about “public and private cloud computing“. His company runs a service where his customers access their digitized paper files. The service runs on servers that they deploy from a hosting provider. Because of this, they can promise their customers that their data will […]
Right after the internet became popular, organizations had their reasons to want private versions of it. Remember the intranet? Looks like the internet, but totally controlled by the company. It is a bit like kindergarten: you can play, but you can’t get out over the fence. The same thing happens with cloud computing. Companies want […]
Yep, I have been travelling like crazy recently. See my tweets at http://www.twitter.com/petersgriddle The newest destination was Kuala Lumpur, and it looks like I will be getting back real soon, as I have found some great partners in India and Malaysia. We are easily filling training sessions for cloud as well as virtualization (like private cloud). […]
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 […]