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About 10 years ago
Answered a question: Do you think there is a minimum critical threshold that justifies the deployment of the System Center suite?
It depends a lot on the profile of your environment and less on the size of your company. For example I you have an established web offering (Linux or Windows) running in your DC but you expect dynamic spikes that you ideally would "cloud burst" but you have to amortize…
About 10 years ago
Answered a question: Rackspace, Dimension Data, and others that were in last year's Challenger quadrant became Niche Players: Agree/ Disagree
I completely agree. Cloud Computing vending is a scale business. And unless you have the $$ Billions to invest in DCs, interconnects, CDN capacity, as well as in continually investing in the OS and Management software infrastructure, you cannot be anything but a vendor…
About 10 years ago
Answered a question: What advice would you give to others looking into implementing a mid-market monitoring solution?
One other thing to consider in light of the Target data breach: what is the security track record of this system. Monitoring requires very low level access to physical, OS and application infrastructure. One of the doorways that was used in the Target breach, was a common…
About 10 years ago
Answered a question: What advice would you give to others looking into implementing a mid-market monitoring solution?
Again the usual clarifying questions apply
--> What problem are you trying to solve (ie what's not working with what you have today)
--> What is the profile of the IT system you are needing to monitor (a Real Time operation will require something different than a 100% PaaS…
About 10 years ago
BTW here's the link to Elastic Beanstalk PaaS http://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/
About 10 years ago
You are comparing Apples with finished Fruit Pies in much of this analysis. Rackspace is focused on competing with Amazon's VM business. But fundamentally that is a transition technology. VMs are an easy migration from existing Server Consolidation and Virtualization…
About 10 years ago
Commented on Some insights into PaaS market
I don't see how the "barriers" are inherent to PaaS
-->Managing servers is a cost TO BE AVOIDED - so that's actually a benefit of PaaS not a barrier
--> Security is no more difficult than implementing good security practices on a Web App. And much of it is simpler since…
About 10 years ago
>>Windows Azure. You get virtual machines, you can use remote desktop / ssh to administer them
•General flow: you create a virtual machine and that’s it (similar to AWS).
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HUH? the big thing about Azure is that it was focused initially only on PaaS. It has the most…
About 10 years ago
Answered a question: If you anticipate needing to scale your application significantly, what is the best solution?
2) what does "best" mean?
--> Lowest cost?
--> Highest reliability?
--> lowest cost of development?
--> best set of service offerings?
--> specific set of capabilities (HIPAA, ISO compliances, HPC computation?
--> "hybrid management"?
About 10 years ago
Answered a question: If you anticipate needing to scale your application significantly, what is the best solution?
Yet another person chiming in that the question is generally too broad to answer
1) what does "scale" mean?
--> do you mean millions/billons of simultaneous users?
--> do you mean petabytes of data?
--> do you mean thousands of parallel processing threads?
Each "scale"…
Over 10 years ago
Answered a question: Cloud Computing: What are the top 3 benefits of public cloud computing in the enterprise?
My top 3
1) Cost/Performance
-- Reduced CapEx....you get state of the art computational power and you pay only for what you use
-- Reduced OpEx....with PaaS (not with IaaS) you reduce your OpEx costs by not having to manage your server stack
-- Improved Performance (you…
Over 10 years ago
Answered a question: Does Heroku charge for support? Do developers need to adopt new technologies?
I've not used their Customer support but here is what they say about it
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Free Support
Support is available for all Heroku users through our Help platform, which lets you file tickets with our support team and get more information on common questions and issues.…
Over 10 years ago
Contributed a review of Clarity SM: CA's Service Catalog is an outdated product
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About me
I am a senior technology executive with experience from Microsoft and other leading US and International technology companies. My track record of innovation demonstrates direct improvements to the bottom line in variety of settings from large technology organizations to newly created startups.
I bring broad based experience across multiple industries and markets with a proven ability to integrate partners to exceed customer expectations. I leverage my multi-cultural, poly-lingual heritage to deliver a proven record of transcending cultural differences to bring projects in on time and on budget.
Domain expertise: Cloud Computing platforms, Social Media integration, Enterprise Architecture analysis, and Consumerization of IT (BYOD)
Dual US and EU passports
Specialties/Accomplishments:
TECHNOLOGY
-Disruptive tech: Cloud (Windows Azure, CA ASC, Amazon ECF, Salesforce.com, IBM Bluecloud), Mobile (Windows 8, iOS, VDI ), Social Media (Facebook, Twitter), Big Data analytics
-EA (TOGAF 9) analysis
-Gamification of decision making sys.
PARTNERING
-Partnering with MSFT:
Unisys Runner Up Partner of the Year 2yr.
CUSTOMER VALUE
-Cust. focused Social Media strategy for Hong Kong Gov. acct team wins praise from cust Solution of the Region Award
-Drove server cons. into corp. IT:
100% ROI in 1 mo, mo. savings $100,000
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