Securing Born in the Cloud Businesses
Everyone’s had this recently. Organisations they partner with are becoming (justifiably) more stringent about their security. It creates some thorny problems though: Born in the Cloud When we’re talking about a Born in the Cloud Business (BITC) we’re talking about this sort of company: Larger organisations like working with businesses like these. They’re small, agile […]
How to Achieve Cloud Cost Savings by Avoiding These Cost Overruns
Any company that runs for long enough will inevitably run into cost overruns; the key, though, is to minimise the number of cost overruns and mitigate the damage from overruns that occur. However, one of the costliest overruns a company can face has to do with cloud migration. In this article, we will tackle the ten most important strategies for avoiding a devastating financial blowout.
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 […]
Welcome 2020ne – “are we there yet?”
“are we there yet?…. are we there yet?….” In vacations past, this was the back seat cry heard by many young parents as they sought the refuge of a far-away campsite or holiday house in search of some peace and quiet after a hectic and busy year. Clearly, 2020 was no normal year and it […]
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 […]
A career with a flammable CV
Planned Obsolescence A baked in part of the design of technology products and an unavoidable side-effect of a career in IT In a discussion with a colleague recently we reflected on how our careers and our CVs race ahead while the invisible fuse line of obsolescence comes along from behind and renders cherished skillsets and […]