Virtual SAN storage vs traditional SAN storage
With traditional SAN storage platforms, creating a storage design that meets performance characteristics now and in the future has always been a critical aspect for an infrastructure architecture. You...
View ArticleWhen the cloud goes down: Software design for failure
Cloud computing & HA A recent outage of Amazon’s Virginia based cloud, resulted in several companies being completely offline for several hours, days or worse. The world was shocked at it had...
View ArticleHandling unpredictable risk
The need for risk-management is becoming increasingly more important. The ongoing recovery of the market and increasing revenues make companies feel comfortable enough to take more risk in order to...
View ArticleCloud model of the future
The Hybrid cloud model is expected to be the key IT model for the next 5 to 10 years. This is due to the fact that most businesses are not likely to fully move to a public cloud at once. The other...
View ArticleKey success factor in IT outsourcing
Outsourcing in IT has now grown to a 313 billion euro industry. This represents growth of 6.9 percent compared to 2010. Until 2015 the market is growing on average by 4.6 percent. Gartner predicts...
View ArticleA Career in Web Operations
Abstract of a Velocity Conference Europe 2011 Keynote by Theo Schlossnagle Your Career Your career is about being better, not making more money. To be truly excellent: You really need to treat your...
View ArticleMonitoring Is Easy, Why Are We So Bad At It?
Abstract of a Velocity Conference Europe 2011 Keynote by Theo Schlossnagle The Purpose of Monitoring What is monitoring: Analytics Trending Fault detection / alerting Capacity planning It’s the...
View ArticleBest Quotes on DevOps and Web Performance – Velocity Europe 2011
We’ve seen a lot of great talks at Velocity Conference Europe 2011, we grabbed the following words of wisdom from the keynote presenters: “DevOps is bullshit, we need *Ops” – @postwait “Rule 1: what...
View ArticleCloud computing: A business model
There are many articles on the Internet about cloud computing, covering all sorts of subjects from history to future trends, advantages, disadvantages, what it is, what is not, and the list could go on...
View ArticleCloud computing maturity: Childhood, Puberty and Adulthood
If two companies offer a form of cloud computing, do they offer exactly the same or can we find differences and how? As a self-respecting IT company it’s nowadays almost impossible to ignore the latest...
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