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How a Data Center Architect Can Learn From Building Principles
Though a physical construction architect and a data center architect have two completely different jobs on the surface, there are various...
Daniel Ruggles
Mar 20, 20171 min read


What Solution Architecture Definition Really Is
When it comes to the IT world, a solution architect is in charge of the developing and building a company’s IT infrastructure. Rather...
Daniel Ruggles
Mar 7, 20171 min read


The Importance of Cloud Computing Solutions
The “cloud” can be utilized in many different ways and most likely have different meanings to individuals depending on their industry and...
Daniel Ruggles
Feb 21, 20171 min read


Daniel Ruggles
Feb 7, 20170 min read


How Cloud Computing Affects the Data Center Architect Design
With cloud computing becoming more and more popular, it’s important to understand the effects it can have on how data is transferred and...
Daniel Ruggles
Jan 26, 20171 min read


Cyber Security Exposure – Who is to blame!
On an almost semi-weekly basis, there is something printed about yet another set of photos released to the public, much to the...
Daniel Ruggles
Mar 12, 20152 min read


Changing the Dynamics of IT Planning
Most organizations spend a large portion of their IT budget “keeping the lights on” and maintaining the status quo, save for a couple of...
Daniel Ruggles
Jan 27, 20121 min read


Is a Private Cloud Solution PCI Compliant?
Enterprises at the early stages of cloud adoption are deploying private clouds and internal cloudlets, which can be thought of as local...
Daniel Ruggles
Oct 14, 20101 min read


Who is responsible for risk mitigation in the Cloud?
Cloud migrations should be based on risk-based business decision. Ensuring that your assets on the cloud are safe is crucial to the...
Daniel Ruggles
Oct 6, 20102 min read


Security Risks in the Cloud
Security risks are concrete negative expressions businesses face when considering moving critical business systems to the cloud....
Daniel Ruggles
Sep 30, 20103 min read


Barriers to Cloud Adoption
Many businesses are reluctant to deploy cloud-based services for their core mission-critical applications. Large and medium sized...
Daniel Ruggles
Sep 23, 20101 min read


Cloud Computing Use Cases
An active discussion on cloud computing use cases brings a somewhat more practical approach to what this service might offer to a company...
Daniel Ruggles
Sep 9, 20102 min read


Building Super Secure Security
Can a resilient and fail-safe security system be created? Given time and money can the ultimate secure network technology be developed? ...
Daniel Ruggles
Sep 7, 20101 min read


Governance and IT
Enterprises will continue to hold the purse strings tight to their chest and will spend only when there is near certainty that there is a...
Daniel Ruggles
Aug 24, 20102 min read


SOA Rebranded as Cloud Computing Services
Just have to love some marketing folks and analysts that jump to the latest buzz word and extol the differences, benefits, pitfalls,...
Daniel Ruggles
Aug 18, 20101 min read


Subcontracting Issues within Cloud Computing Services
Multi-cloud relationships and subcontractors can be an issue when using some cloud providers. For example, a customer might start out...
Daniel Ruggles
Aug 10, 20102 min read


Cloud Computing Security Issues – nothing really new or different
Security compliance, addressed either by physical controls or logical controls, will still apply whether you operate on your premises or...
Daniel Ruggles
Jun 24, 20102 min read


IT is a Love Hate Relation
Business grudgingly relies on IT to manage the books, usually to automate boring repeatable tasks fast and cheaply and sometimes to...
Daniel Ruggles
Jun 5, 20102 min read


Sourcing’s Hidden Sore Points - India
There is nothing wrong with sourcing selective activities away from your internal staff to an external service provider. You can use this...
Daniel Ruggles
Oct 18, 20073 min read


What is ITIL?
The IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a series of eight books and is referred to as the only consistent and comprehensive best practice...
Daniel Ruggles
Mar 15, 20072 min read
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