Cloud Computing
The Managed Cloud and Infrastructure Lifecycle
Most organizations can point at the moment their infrastructure was designed. Rather fewer can point at who has owned it since. That gap is what this guide is about: not how to build an environment, but what has to keep ...
What Are Managed Cloud Services?
Managed cloud services are frequently sold as a migration and bought as a rescue. The distinction matters, because the work that makes a cloud environment good is almost entirely the work that happens after it exists.
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Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure
Most organizations are already hybrid. They have a data center or a private environment, a public cloud account that started with one project, and a growing number of software services that hold data neither of those can...
Private Cloud and Data Center Services
Private infrastructure is frequently described as the thing organizations are leaving. In practice a large number of them are not, and a meaningful number are selectively coming back for workloads where the economics or ...
AWS Managed Services
Opening an AWS account takes a few minutes. Operating one so that it is secure, recoverable, observable and not quietly expensive is a continuing job, and it is the job most organizations underestimate because the platfo...
Microsoft Azure Managed Services
Azure arrives in most organizations through a side door. A directory already exists because of a productivity suite, a licence bundle includes credit, and a first workload lands without any of the structural decisions be...
Private Cloud, Public Cloud and Hybrid Cloud
The three deployment models are usually compared on price, which is the dimension where the comparison is least reliable. What actually differs is who operates the platform, where the data sits, how quickly capacity can ...
Hybrid Cloud Architecture Explained
Hybrid architecture is the design of the seam between two environments. Most of the difficulty is there rather than in either environment individually, because each is well understood on its own and the interface between...
Cloud Cost Optimization and FinOps
Cloud bills grow because cloud makes provisioning easy and de-provisioning optional. Nothing forces the conversation that a purchase order used to force, so capacity accumulates quietly and the total becomes a surprise s...
Government and Public-Sector Cloud Infrastructure
Public-sector infrastructure decisions are made under constraints that commercial organizations do not share. The technology is the same; the authorization, procurement, records and transparency obligations around it are...