Businesses are adopting cloud solutions in their IT departments at an increasing pace. In my previous article, I have discussed the obvious benefits of moving e-mail, the most mission critical component of a company’s IT services, to the cloud. I have also discussed that the overall operational and financial benefits of cloud solutions apply to […]
In all my discussions about migrating your data center to the cloud, I have taken a broader view of benefits offered by the cloud. In this article, I will specifically talk about the benefits of moving e-mail to the cloud. I chose e-mail on purpose: e-mail is a service that has a low performance score […]
I have talked about the cloud definition in one of my previous articles by emphasizing that the cloud computing offers rapid provisioning of resources on demand. While there are many issues still under discussion with cloud computing, such as ownership of data, backups, government compliance, data security etc., there are some cases where cloud computing […]
Although cloud computing is one of the biggest, if not the biggest thing in IT, we cannot say that there are no concerns and all is OK when you decide to migrate to the cloud. In fact there are too many concerns that hold companies back from migrating to the cloud. We cannot say that […]
I have presented my humble views on the future of the current IT job descriptions in my previous article titled “Cloud Jobs: Skyrocketing is an Understatement.” All of the job descriptions were fairly self explanatory, but one needed a complete discussion: IT/Enterprise Architects. Before giving a technical definition on it, let’s see how the cloud […]
The move to the cloud is popular but it is still new. In most of the cases it provides significant cost benefits to the companies given that it is done right. As you have guessed by now, the “done right” part boils to the cloud contract. In most of the cases the cloud contract terms […]