Have Your Work Peer Reviewed

There are plenty of design tools available that will ensure  that your configuration of components is possible. Such tools can only ensure that the components will fit together. The tool probably has limited capabilities to ensure that you have all of the components that you need (such as cabling), nor can the tool verify that the configuration that you are putting together is an appropriate design for the pro

The Cloud Defined, Part 8 of 8: Services Not Applications

This is the conclusion to my series of articles where I share my interpretation of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s special publication 800-145. This week I share my thoughts on how cloud computing will change the roles of IT professionals. The biggest shift that this new era of cloud computing brings to the world of IT is that IT professionals will now transition from analyzing systems to ana

The Cloud Defined, Part 7 of 8: Deployment Models

I am continuing my series of articles where I share my interpretation of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s special publication 800-145. This week the focus is on the four different deployment models of cloud computing according to the NIST’s definition: Private cloud. The cloud infrastructure is provisioned for exclusive use by a single organization comprising multiple consumers (e.g., busin

The Cloud Defined, Part 6 of 8: Service Models

I am continuing my series of articles where I share my interpretation of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s special publication 800-145. This week the focus is on the three different service models of cloud computing according to the NIST’s definition: Software as a Service (SaaS). The capability provided to the consumer is to use the provider’s applications running on a cloud infrastructur