I am not proud to admit that I used to put security into place to satisfy an audit. It took me time to learn that security is the foundation of any system. What I thought was security hype was really the need to increase cyber security awareness. Let me start with a story… Early Corporate […]
Why is Cloud So Expensive?
Introduction “Why is Cloud So Expensive?” is a question that no one wants to ask or answer after completing the challenging task of moving workloads out of legacy platforms. In this post, we look at one case study of a Software as a Service Provider (SaaS) that had predicable costs in private cloud and found […]
Colocation Pricing
Introduction I’d like to talk about colocation pricing. In this brief time, I’d like to cover: how data center colocation pricing works why data centers vary in price and real world pricing examples We can only imagine the curiosity a IT director faces as they begin to outgrow their in house data center or realize […]
Public Cloud vs Private Cloud
Introduction The text that follows is a summary of our video. This month we discuss the real technical differences between public cloud vs private cloud. If you’re interested in more details about the cloud, we are constantly adding to our What is Cloud Computing Library. We Aren’t Discussing Public vs On Premise Cloud When you […]
Is Virtualization Needed for Cloud?
This post was originally a vlog post from October of 2020. For reference, we post our vlogs here with the full transcript below along with clarifying comments and graphics. You can check out all our vlogs on our YouTube channel. This week we tackle the question, “Is Virtualization Needed for Cloud?” which is pretty interesting […]
