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CIO insights to IT Management
http://itacumen.blogspot.com/2011/04/amazon-ec2-outage-and-cloud-strategy.html
CIO insights to IT Management. Thoughts IT management, process, cloud and people. Tuesday, April 26, 2011. Amazon EC2 Outage and Cloud Strategy. Last Friday, Amazon experienced a partial outage of its cloud infrastructure. Here the initial update and the closing updates:. Closing update from Amazon:. We are digging deeply into the root causes of this event and will post a detailed post mortem. The current Amazon issue re-emphasizes that a cloud strategy needs to include. Enterprise change, incident, prob...
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CIO insights to IT Management: Feel like there is not enough IT to go around?
http://itacumen.blogspot.com/2011/05/feel-like-there-is-not-enough-it-to-go.html
CIO insights to IT Management. Thoughts IT management, process, cloud and people. Tuesday, May 17, 2011. Feel like there is not enough IT to go around? Are you seeing any of these symptoms? Projects that were expected to start near the beginning of the year, are just being kicked off. Even though development resources levels may be addressed, new projects may be constrained by infrastructure capacity that has resourcing issues and its own ramp up schedule. Leverage variable capacity opportunities offered...
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CIO insights to IT Management: Measuring Enterprise Architecture through Technology Business Management
http://itacumen.blogspot.com/2013/11/enterprise-architecture-and-it.html
CIO insights to IT Management. Thoughts IT management, process, cloud and people. Tuesday, November 12, 2013. Measuring Enterprise Architecture through Technology Business Management. Cost of business services in the service catalog (and the forecast for these costs, e.g. is there a path to lower them through a modified EA). The unit costs of supporting IT offerings, e.g., CPU, memory, storage, network. The present value of unused spare capacity and the interest expense of this. Tuesday, November 12, 2013.
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CIO insights to IT Management: Private Cloud - why and how?
http://itacumen.blogspot.com/2011/03/private-cloud-why-and-how.html
CIO insights to IT Management. Thoughts IT management, process, cloud and people. Tuesday, March 22, 2011. Private Cloud - why and how? There is an explosion of change occurring in infrastructure and operations. While it took almost a decade for virtualization to become main stream, cloud options are evolving much more rapidly. There are two major business drivers – variable cost for consumers of IT resources and a need for increased IT agility. Cloud takes virtualization to the next level. Today, there ...
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CIO insights to IT Management: Planning for Cloud Implementation
http://itacumen.blogspot.com/2011/03/planning-for-cloud-implementation.html
CIO insights to IT Management. Thoughts IT management, process, cloud and people. Tuesday, March 08, 2011. Planning for Cloud Implementation. We have done a good amount of consulting on moving to public cloud (especially for companies that are not happy about the cost of their existing managed hosting vender). On the initial discussion, one of the first questions is “what do I need to think about and how do I choose a cloud vendor? Will you need to create a new AD domain and build a trust? What changes t...
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CIO insights to IT Management: Why cloud?
http://itacumen.blogspot.com/2013/10/why-cloud.html
CIO insights to IT Management. Thoughts IT management, process, cloud and people. Thursday, October 03, 2013. I have helped large organizations relocate enterprise applications to the cloud, helped small companies make cloud vendor selections and have been CTO of an IaaS cloud. I also have experience running large IT organizations and have provided consultation to companies on many aspects of their internal processes and technology. I have been asked many times "why cloud? Many organizations are required...
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CIO insights to IT Management: Cloud Relocation takes planning
http://itacumen.blogspot.com/2013/09/cloud-relocation-takes-planning.html
CIO insights to IT Management. Thoughts IT management, process, cloud and people. Sunday, September 22, 2013. Cloud Relocation takes planning. Planning for a Cloud Relocation. Cloud Relocation Planning Topics. ROI Cloud vendor selection. Functional and Non-functional Test planning. Wide area network changes. DNS architecture and vendor selection. Inventory of applications, data flow and service interdependencies. Application changes (to remove legacy IP addresses) or re-architect for failover.
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