IT and The Cloud: AWS EC2
It’s Day #2 on my excellent cloud adventure and I decided to dive right on in and see if I could provision a Windows 2008 R2 Server running SQL Server. Armed with my credit card and my Amazon.com account, I signed up and created my AWS profile. I eagerly clicked the Launch Instance in the EC2 Console Dashboard, followed a few prompts and bingo, my AWS console informed me it was launching my Large Standard Windows instance! A matter of minutes later, I had downloaded the preconfigured...
Read MoreIT and The Cloud: Introduction
I have begun researching Cloud Computing vendors that host infrastructure as a service solutions (IaaS) to examine the validity of migrating traditional IT Infrastructure services (and applications) into the Cloud. There are a number of large players in this space, from the veteran that is Amazon Web Services (AWS) to the Rack Space Cloud and to new players like Microsoft’s Azure platform and they are all vying for marketing dominance in the space I believe is the future of computing. My...
Read MoreCloud Migration: Establishment, Implementation and Professional Services Costs
I am currently undertaking a project that is examining the validity and cost effectiveness of moving a 60 user company into the cloud. I always chuckle when I read about people moving to the cloud because there are so many different definitions of what people consider ‘moving to the cloud’ so I think I should probably kick this post off by explaining exactly what I’m considering. This project would take all servers and all applications (excluding voice) and move them into...
Read MoreSaaS Deployments – Lessons Learned
There is no shortage of buzz around Cloud Computing and SaaS and I know a large number of companies are looking at SaaS as a cost-effective mechanism to get applications out to their users, but who should own the deployment and management of a SaaS application? Cloud computing is defined by Wikipedia as: “Cloud computing is a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service over the Internet. Users need not have knowledge of, expertise...
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