A no nonsense discussion of 21st century IT
In my previous podcast, I talked about a company deciding to migrate a portfolio of 1000 applications to cloud as part of a move to digital. Public cloud is their first option. We reviewed what to do with the applications they labeled digital, adamant in their journey to the digital enterprise. In this podcast we …
Continue reading "Applications to Cloud – Lets get practical – part 2"
I've highlighted in previous podcasts the importance of analyzing your application portfolio in depth and plan the migration of each application carefully. Let's get practical this time. I've reconstructed, from actual use cases, an enterprise application portfolio of 1000 applications. Let's use this portfolio to discuss how we should look at application migration for each …
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In my previous podcast I describe how to develop a Hybrid IT Strategy. This strategy will define the blueprint of your environment moving forward but it will not quantify the size of each environment. To do that you need to start from your application portfolio and understand which apps will be moved and where to. …
Continue reading "Applications to Cloud – Try before you Buy"
Public cloud providers do not do everything for you as it may seem. You still have plenty of responsibility set aside, and the complexity of the hybrid environment you are building makes your role even more important. This leads to the need of thinking end-to-end, of looking at use cases and see by whom each …
Continue reading "Go cloud, think Service Integration and Management"
CIOs wanting to support the business as highlighted in my previous podcast need to review the IT environment they will be confronted with and make some decisions early on, regarding what will be used for what and which functionalities are OK or not. Particularly using public cloud does not relieve the IT department from all activities …
Continue reading "Creativity or Standardization, what approach for public cloud?"
Are you a cloud native, a start-up or existing company using cloud to develop your new business approaches, or are you a cloud migrant, a company migrating their existing IT assets to cloud environments? In both cases a number of decisions are required. Two are critical for the future of your digital endeavors. First, are …
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Most companies today are using public cloud as part of their IT environment. The configure one or many compartments in Azure, AWS, Google and/or Softlayer. Each and everyone of those environments is done separately, often by different teams that are or are not part of the IT organization. The result is multiple environments that each …
Continue reading "Cloud Consumption, the return of the silos."
I'm better off because I put 50% of my workloads in public cloud. Why 50, why not 75. Such comparisons don't make sense. Defining ratios upfront, just thinking about infrastructure are not helpful and may result in the inability for the company to achieve its digital transformation in the long run. Designing a hybrid cloud …
Continue reading "4 key items to keep in mind when identifying the perfect cloud for an app."
As companies embrace cloud in general and public cloud in particular, they open up their environments. This requires a thoughtful thinking because they are adding new workload locations, but in most situations, without removing the existing ones. Beside the public cloud, SaaS services are increasingly consumed, making the IT landscape the end-user interacts with complex. …
In my last podcast I briefly mentioned the aspects of performance when moving to the public cloud. I said I was going to come back to it, and here I am. I’m doing it as a blog post as sometimes a picture is worth a 1000 words. What platform do I choose? When a company …
In my last podcast I talked about the things to take into account when migrating to public cloud. This time I'm looking at the costs associated with running applications in the public cloud and how you can estimate them. Unfortunately they are as transparent as the real price you pay with a budget airline. The …
Your application sits nicely behind your protection perimeter in your datacenter. Now you have decided to take it to the public cloud. It's easy isn't it to migrate that application? But are you taking all aspects into account. Listen to my podcast on the subject. Also listen to my next podcast, Public Cloud and Budget …
