The world of IT infrastructure is essentially made up of storage and compute resources plumbed together with networking equipment. In this post we are going to talk about the compute element of that mix and how public clouds have revolutionised…
Category: Thinking
Cloud Simplified: What is Elasticity?
Elasticity is a fundamental concept underpinning cloud computing that, when deployed appropriately, can allow you to create highly responsive, reliable and cost effective applications in the cloud. In essence elasticity allows the capacity of a given cloud environment to increase…
Cloud Simplified: What is the Cloud?
The cloud is a pretty nebulous (excuse the pun!) concept which is difficult to sum up in a short blog post such as this. For the purpose of this overview, we'll be talking about the 'Infrastructure-as-a-Service' (IAAS) type of cloud…
Is the data warehouse dead?
Big data has to be one of the most over-hyped and over-used phrases during the last few years. The ability to analyse near unimaginably large sets of data brings the promise of gaining amazing insights that were previously out of…