In my final post in this series, I want to talk about some things that we have not touched on already and how it relates to what we’ve already discussed. First, let’s take a quick recap of what we’ve covered. In post 1, we …
In my previous articles, I’ve looked at the challenges and decisions people face when undertaking digital transformation and transitioning to a hybrid cloud model of IT operation. Whether it’s using public cloud infrastructure or changing operations to leverage containers and microservices, we all know …
Migration to the cloud is just like a house move. The amount of preparation done before the move determines how smoothly the move goes. Similarly, there are many technical and non-technical actions that can be taken to make a move to the cloud successful …
Welcome back to this series of blogs on my real-world experiences of hybrid IT. If you’re just joining us, you can find previous posts here, here, and here. So far, I’ve covered a brief introduction to the series, public cloud costing and experiences, and …
There’s a question I’m sure is keeping some IT managers and CTOs up at night. How do you know when it’s right to move a workload to the cloud? And when you finally make the decision to migrate, how do you choose the best location for …
There is no getting away from it: the word “cloud” is a buzzword in the IT industry. Maybe it’s graduated onto something more. Why Cloud? I remember being asked this exact question during a technical presentation I got drafted into very last minute with …
Over the coming weeks, I will be writing a series of posts on my varied experiences with hybrid IT. These experiences come from working on countless projects over the last ten years working in a consultancy role. So, let’s start with a bit of …
One of the biggest complaints you’ll likely hear after moving to Office 365 will be about its speed, or lack thereof. Now that data isn’t sitting on your LAN, there is lots of room for latency to hit your connection. There’s no doubt that …
Risk Management is an important part of IT. Being able to identify risks and remediation options can make a huge difference if or when disaster strikes. If you’ve moved part of or all of your enterprise to Office 365, you now have no control …
So far in this series, we’ve covered setting expectations as well as migrating to Office 365. Now that your organization is up and running on the new platform, how do you measure your organization’s health? Are you running as efficiently as you can, or …
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