Category Archives: Certification_Journey

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”

Most recently in this series, we took a look at the different available cloud service models of Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). At a high level, the cloud service models describe what is being delivered to consumers. In this post, we’ll explore cloud deploymentContinue reading “Cloud Essentials+ Journey – Cloud Deployment Models”

So far in this series, we have covered a definition of the cloud and gone through the various cloud characteristics. In this post, we will get into the different ways cloud services can be delivered or consumed. These are known as the different cloud service models. Cloud service models describe what specifically is being deliveredContinue reading “Cloud Essentials+ Journey – Cloud Service Models”