Servers in the Cloud

Culture change for the management of servers.

I have been digging a little deeper into the way Servers are managed in the Amazon Cloud. To convey where I think this will lead IT (both in and out of the cloud) lets take a look at the history.

In the early days a server was built using the [...]

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) – why should the CEO/CIO care?

If trends such as Cloud, Web2:0 and Virtualisation don’t shake up the role that IT plays within organisations then SOA certainly will.

So what does the CEO/CIO need to know and care about SOA?

Its almost certainly an ongoing and iterative process so the old culture of a fixed time/cost project needs to transition to iterative improvements to [...]

CloudBusting

How will the cloud influence IT architecture? I suspect Legal restrictions on data will force some adopters to operate in a mix of local and cloud infrastructure. Certainly it will force EMEA adopters to position customer data into the cloud making sure its not held in the US. The nature of eggs in one basket [...]