Cloud Computing
Self-Service Platform Operations for Drupal Estates
Here is a way a technically successful migration is judged a failure.
The new platform is better in every measurable respect: cheaper per site, properly monitored, backed up, patched, with security gates in the pipeline....
Drupal Cloud Security Architecture
Organizations moving off a managed Drupal platform frequently discover, during the first audit after the move, that the platform's controls were the controls. The web application firewall, the transport security, some ac...
Drupal Migration Waves: Sequencing a Large Estate
Waves exist for one reason: so that migrating the fortieth site is easier than migrating the first. Everything else about the model follows from that, including the parts that look like project management overhead and ar...
Drupal Site Complexity Assessment
Everything else in an estate migration depends on this. Sequence, effort, test depth, rollback design, staffing and acceptance criteria all follow from knowing which sites are alike, and none of them can be planned hones...
What Is Colocation, and When Does a Public Agency Need It?
A public agency reaches this question from one of two directions. Either the server room is a problem, because it is full, or because it is a converted office with a domestic air conditioner and a building manager who wa...
Data Center Hosting and Colocation for Public Agencies
Every workload an agency runs sits in one of four places. It is on a machine in a building you control, in a rack you rent, on a server somebody else owns and leases to you, or in public cloud. Most agencies are in three...
How to Buy Data Center Hosting and Colocation Through TIPS
A hosting or colocation purchase differs from most technology buying in one respect that catches people out: the thing being bought is a place, and the equipment has to physically get there. Everything awkward about the ...
How Much Does TIPS 260302 Data Center Hosting Cost?
Infrastructure is one of the few technology purchases where a published number is genuinely useful before a conversation. A rack unit is a rack unit, and a server with a stated processor count and disk size is a known qu...
What to Look For in TIPS 260302 Data Center
Under an awarded contract you are not only choosing a supplier. You are choosing a building, and a group of people who operate it, and that is a harder thing to evaluate because almost nothing about a building can be est...
TX-RAMP-Certified Cloud Solutions for Texas Agencies and Businesses
Cloud security and compliance are critical for Texas state agencies and the businesses that support them. Meeting state-mandated security standards is not optional. It is a requirement.The Texas Risk and Authorization Ma...