What is cloud cost optimization? There are so many questions that a Cloud Architect must continuously ask of their cloud usage to keep downward pressure on cloud costs and avoid runaway bills: How do I reduce my Azure & AWS bill? How much of last month’s cloud...
What is Cloud Security Posture Management? Cloud Security Posture Management, CSPM for short, is a term most likely coined, by Gartner, in a 2019 innovation paper. In that paper, Gartner noted that “nearly all successful attacks on cloud services are the result of...
What is Visualization? Visualization is a human trait, it has been part of us since our ancestors painted on cave walls to map animal types, movement and the hunt. A more recent example of visualization as innovation was when Napoleon used them in the early 19th...
Top tips for surviving AWS Re:Invent It’s re:invent time again! I thought I would repost my 2018 blog with some updates, comments and yes, some changes. "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?" I have attended more than my fair share of...
Top Five New Challenges Triggered by Cloud Pace of Innovation The Amazon Web Services (AWS) pace of innovation over the past eight years amazes me. Every year their cloud gets wider and deeper! The breadth of their public cloud offering reveals a count of over sixty...
There’s a problem lurking in the cloud-era IT industry. Seventeen years since the 20th century and documentation techniques such as runbooks from that era still persist today. 21st century technologies and methodologies such as cloud services, containers,...
Oh the good ol’ days of feeling intimate with the IT we could actually see and touch Remember when managing IT resources meant you had to literally see it and touch it to manage it? OK, maybe not all of it, all of the time. It’s of course been possible to remotely...
I have attended more than my fair share of conferences in Las Vegas but nothing prepared me for my first visit to AWS re:Invent in 2017. It was a madhouse! Over 45,000 people, 5 Hotels, 100s of sessions. Sometimes it was like Disneyland; you pay a lot of money to...
