Category Archives: Cloud_Essentials_Journey

Wouldn’t it be great if everything we wanted to purchase and integrate into our technology stacks would just work the way we wanted without needing to worry about it or even test things out? Well, anyone who has been around technology knows that is not the case. There is not always a ‘one size fitsContinue reading “Cloud Essentials+ Journey – Try Before You Buy”

In a previous post in this series, we covered different request documents that are sent to vendors/partners/service providers such as the request for information (RFI), request for proposal (RFP), and request for quote (RFQ). These request documents all deal with different phases of the pre-procurement process of a technology, system, or application. There is anotherContinue reading “Cloud Essentials+ Journey – Statement of Work”

One major shift to migrating to cloud services was the move from capital expenses to operating expenses. With capital expenditures, we typically pay for assets up front, and own and maintain those assets. On the other hand, with operating expenditures, we are paying for a service, or furthermore, the right to use that service/application/system. ServicesContinue reading “Cloud Essentials+ Journey – Licensing Models”

Purchasing and implementing new solutions is a big part of the game for IT departments. Any time we deal with purchasing new gear or solutions, we are working with vendors, partners, and resellers. When working with these outside entities, there are different requests that we can draft to send to our partners/resellers/service providers. These areContinue reading “Cloud Essentials+ Journey – Request for What?”

In the previous post in this series titled Be Ready for ‘Anything’, we introduced the concept of disaster recovery. While organizations can do their best to design and implement redundant, highly available systems, disaster recovery plans still need to be made to handle the recovery process from large downtimes and/or disasters when they happen. DisasterContinue reading “Cloud Essentials+ Journey – What’s Your ‘Objective’?”

An application or service is really only good to a consumer if it is functional and available for use. As much as we may wish they wouldn’t, IT systems break, go offline, and thus become unavailable. With this in mind, we know that if our business and customers cannot tolerate certain amounts of downtime, weContinue reading “Cloud Essentials+ Journey – Be Ready for ‘Anything’”

Networks have definitely been evolving over the years. While you can certainly still build and manage networks the good old fashioned way with the command line interface and interacting with your network on a device by device basis, there are definitely alternatives. There are technologies, applications, and systems that will automate your network operations andContinue reading “Cloud Essentials+ Journey – Software-Defined Networking”

One of the major benefits of leveraging cloud services is the ability to spin up resources quickly. Depending on what consumers are deploying in the cloud, they, or perhaps their customers may also want fast access and good performance to those services and data. For instance, let’s say you run a video streaming platform. YouContinue reading “Cloud Essentials+ Journey – Content Delivery Networks”