Posts tagged with the "cloud migration" tag
Who’ll Stop the Rain: Seeking Quality in the Cloud
May 5, 2011 | Be the first to comment! It’s nearly impossible these days to pick up a trade publication covering the tech industry without reading something about cloud computing. The plethora of coverage is enough to make one think that cloud computing is the latest technological panacea, good for everything from live data storage to data archiving and …Read More
The Chaos Monkey
May 1, 2011 | Be the first to comment! Sometime last year, Netflix began using Amazon Web Services (AWS) to run their immensely successful video streaming business. They moved their entire source of revenue to the cloud. They are now totally reliant on the performance of AWS. How would you manage the business risk of such a move? Stop reading …Read More
Cloud – Measure Quality Before You Migrate
March 1, 2010 | Be the first to comment! A recent Booz Allen economic study highlights two key drivers of cost savings in a cloud environment: the speed at which you migrate your applications to the cloud and the extent to which you can reduce the internally-managed infrastructure supporting these migrated applications. The faster the better; the greater the …Read More
Cloud(s) Gathering Over DC
December 16, 2009 | Be the first to comment! Yesterday CAST hosted a breakfast for IT leaders in government agencies - one of the themes was moving applications to the Cloud. I was surprised (and relieved) to see so many agencies represented - FEMA, DHS, SEC, NASA, and the Defense Intelligence Agency just to name a few. Based on yesterday's conversation and …Read More