Imagine that you are a farmer in the 1800s and that you have a horse. You need your horse to plow fields so that you can plant seeds.
One day your horse falls ill and cannot pull your plow. You cannot plant seeds, and therefore will have no crops to harvest for the season. You have access to a local veterinarian who can examine your horse and treat the horse’s illness.
Would you instead move the horse to a differ
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
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
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
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 fifth and final fundamental characteristic of cloud computing according to the NIST’s definition:
Measured Service. Cloud systems automatically control and optimize resource use by leveraging a metering capability at some level
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 fourth fundamental characteristic of cloud computing according to the NIST’s definition:
Rapid elasticity. Capabilities can be elastically provisioned and released, in some cases automatically, to scale rapidly outward and inwar
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 third fundamental characteristic of cloud computing according to the NIST’s definition:
Resource pooling. The provider’s computing resources are pooled to serve multiple consumers using a multi-tenant model, with different phys
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 second fundamental characteristic of cloud computing according to the NIST’s definition:
Broad network access. Capabilities are available over the network and accessed through standard mechanisms that promote use by heterogeneou
For this and the next seven weeks I am going to change the focus of this blog from non-technical advice for IT professionals to an interpretation of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s special publication 800-145. This is an often overlooked and incredibly important document for all IT professionals to read, study, and be familiar with as it is going to help everyone in our industry get on the sa
