There are some common initial questions people have when they are considering building a cloud, questions like:

• Is the cloud right for me?
• Should I go private, public, or hybrid?
• Is it best to keep the cloud separate from the rest of my IT, or should I merge them?
• How much will it cost?

Once […]

Your company has decided to set up a Performance Testing Environment, referred to as PTE from now on, with production sized data volumes, allowing them to do  some real testing and get accurate SQL optimizer paths through your data.  Imagine the costs involved; the hardware costs to run the environment, […]

As I have begun following the DevOps movement over the last year, one of the most interesting topics has been applying “Lean” principles to the DevOps problem. I suspect that many of you have heard of Lean, but if you are like me, it may not be immediately apparent what […]

Today’s global economy is challenging business organizations to provide fast, reliable applications for customers and end-users who are increasingly  using a variety of wireless, mobile and hand-held devices to access business services.

Typically, applications can be managed from enterprise-wide consoles or with Web-enabled interfaces to help meet ongoing business needs. To […]