Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “Business Value”
Did you know that Docker is not a “Thing”? It’s rather a collection of tools that enable users to build, run and manage containers. In this 5MoC episode, Robert Starmer explains what the pieces are and how they work together to provide the container service that has application developers so …
The Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) cloud service model has a lot of benefits for enterprise users. Some “legacy” enterprise apps will not fit this model, but surprisingly, a number can be transitioned to and managed from a PaaS. Moving forward, building applications on a PaaS, that abstract away much of the hardware …
Ben Franklin was wise with his money and he would have certainly considered his ROI on using Public or Private cloud services. It is clear that IT is headed towards a cloud centric model for all future development and deployment services, and this raises the age old model of rent vs. …
Uneducated opinion, rather than an educated decision, is more likely going to kill your efforts to transition to a cloud service model. I was teaching a class at a company that already had a private cloud for application development and testing. Upper management had already bought into the idea. The cloud …
I get it, we’ve been taking part in instructor-led training (ILT) really since day one. Our basic and most of our advanced education was ILT driven. It’s familiar, it’s comfortable. We want that reassurance that if we have a question, we’ll get the instant gratification of one-on-one attention. Right? This is …
What is the value proposition of “the Cloud” for a business. Often the first (incorrect) thought is that it will be from jettisoning your IT department and seeing reduced operating costs. In this episode, Kumulus Technologies CTO, Robert Starmer, shows why this is _not_ the case. Rather, the business value …
Saas, PaaS, IaaS – What are they anyway? The services a cloud provides to business can be divided into three categories according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) cloud model: Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). While all clouds are built on real, physical infrastructure of …
