FinOps – What’s the secret? Robust governance
At Appcentric we have helped many organisations with cloud financial management, so what’s the secret to success you might ask? Robust governance is fundamental when it comes to long term success. Whilst a blitz may work in the short term when faced with a crisis, firefighting is not a viable long term approach. Successful long […]
FinOps – Learnings from the field
Remember when everyone proclaimed ‘Move to the public cloud, its cheaper’? Well the truth is it can be, however, the absence of capacity constraints in conjunction with increasingly high levels of user autonomy mean that without evolved governance models your organisation could be faced with public cloud costs that quickly get out of control. Here […]
Cost Saving Through Better Deployment
Azure’s consumption-based model requires attention to detail and continued focus on utilisation and cost. A subtle difference that was not a daily discipline in the more traditional datacentre setting of the past. While this paradigm shift in the way in which organisations utilise compute services is hardly new. . Fun fact “Azure was first introduced […]
Single Cloud or Multi-Cloud: The Ultimate Debate
Today, we’re going to talk about a hotly debated topic in the tech industry – whether to pick a single cloud provider or go for a multi-cloud strategy. As someone who’s been in the industry for a while, I’ve seen companies go back and forth on this topic, and I think it’s time to weigh […]
Cloud Migration: Why Your Business Needs a Robust Business Case
Today I want to talk to you about an important topic that can make or break a company’s success in the digital age: migrating infrastructure to the public cloud. As the world becomes increasingly digital, businesses must adapt to survive. And one of the most significant changes a company can make is moving their infrastructure […]
The Cloud Migration Pitfalls You Need to Know: Why Understanding Your Applications is Critical
2 / 2 Public cloud migration for a while has been the the buzzword on everyone’s lips. Often described as a no brainer for organisations where their core business is not managing IT systems. Sure, there are plenty of good reasons to take your organisation’s applications to the cloud: lower costs, better scalability, and increased […]
Oils ain’t Oils and Neither are Calculators.
Some of you may remember the Castrol oil commercials on Australian television throughout the late 1980’s where they claimed than not all oils are created equally. – If not indulge yourself in 43 seconds of nostalgic cinematic genius. 1988 CASTROL GTX2 Oils Ain’t Oils Such is true with cloud pricing calculators. Whilst these are invaluable […]
cloudstep – The value proposition for consulting firms.
Cloudstep is a tool for consulting firms, built by a consulting firm. It makes it easy to capture existing capital and operational IT expenditure for an organisation and make accurate comparisons against alternate IT delivery options. We built cloudstep to make it easy to sell consulting engagements for professional services focused around cloud migrations. Build […]
The Cloud – Anagnorisis and Peripeteia
In my work here at Cloudstep we have two distinct sides to our business, a consulting practice “Jtwo Solutions” and a cloud modelling software and services practice “Cloudstep”. Working on both sides of these businesses affords me the benefit of hands on consulting, technical architecture and implementation as well as scenario based cost modelling activities […]
Azure PowerShell ‘Az’ Module
Azure PowerShell ‘Az’ Module version 1.0 Microsoft released a new PowerShell module specifically for Azure late last year called “Az”. On the plus side Az ensures that Windows PowerShell and PowerShell Core users can get the latest Azure tooling from PowerShell on every platform be it Windows PowerShell or PowerShell Core for my preferred operating […]