The many lies about reducing complexity part 2: Cloud

That standard image that explains the difference between on-premises, IAAS, PAAS, and SAAS in the cloud? You know what, it is hugely misleading. Here is the real deal.

VMware Cloud on AWS

Subtitle: A Strategic Alliance Streamlining the Path to Hybrid Cloud Adoption The Challenge As an Cloud Solutions Architect, I am intimately involved with the hottest topics in my field, and the union of VMware and AWS is undoubtedly one of them. In fact, as I craft this article, I am being interviewed by Amazon for […]

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Azure VMware Solution: Bridging Legacy and Innovation

Introduction Azure’s VMware Solution represents a paradigm shift, integrating the best of both VMware and Microsoft Azure platforms. This offers organisations a unified operational framework, allowing seamless management, security, and scaling of applications across both environments. In essence, you can now migrate your virtual machines (VMs) from on-premises infrastructure directly to Azure’s bare-metal, hyper-converged dedicated […]

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Hybrid By Design Vs. Hybrid By Accident

As a veteran of enterprise IT, there’s a difference between “hybrid by design” and “hybrid by accident.” Let’s be frank: you are probably doing hybrid by accident – just about everybody is. Hybrid by accident is: Integrating public cloud with on-premises tech without standardizing on a common infrastructure-as-code practice Shadow IT cloud “experiments” that suddenly […]

Hybrid IT or Cloud Initiative – a Perfect Enterprise Architecture Maturation Opportunity

All too often in the growth and maturation of Enterprise
Architecture initiatives, the effort stalls or is delayed due to lack of “applied
traction”. By this, I mean the EA
activities – whether targeted towards compliance, risk mitigation or value
opportunity propositions – may not be attached to measurable, active, visible
projects that could advance and prove the value of EA. EA doesn’t work by itself, in a vacuum,
without collaborative engagement and a means of proving usefulness. A critical
vehicle to this proof is successful orchestration and use of assets and investment
resources to meet a high-profile business objective – i.e. a successful
project.

SOA Provides Needed Support for Enterprise Architecture in Cloud, Mobile, Big Data, Says Open Group Panel

There’s been a resurgent role for service-oriented architecture (SOA) as a practical and relevant ingredient for effective design and use of Cloud, mobile, and big-data technologies. To find out why, The Open Group recently gathered an international panel of experts to explore the concept. Continue reading