Sunday, January 8th, 2012
2011 was a very busy year for us at RampRate. I’ve spent nearly 20 years, on many sides, of the technology business and I enjoy reflecting across large swaths of time to see if there are patterns, lessons, and advice, so let’s see what we get from 2011.
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Thursday, August 18th, 2011
The key question is cloud service is the right fit for your specific jobs, whether today or in a few years, and what you should do to prepare.
by Alex Veytsel, Steve Lerner and Tony Greenberg
As published by Microsoft TechNet
In the 10+ years that RampRate has advised buyers of IT infrastructure services, few technology options have been as polarizing as “the cloud.” In some organizations, a public cloud deployment is viewed as an immature technology if not a passing fad, with any cloud outage eliciting a chorus of “I told you so.” In others, it is a panacea that appears at the end of every strategic roadmap for every application.
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Thursday, August 18th, 2011
Most legacy applications have implicit assumptions about operating systems, hardware, geography, latency, throughput, scalability, governance, access rights, monitoring and other aspects that must be carefully addressed before deploying to the public cloud.
by Alex Veytsel, Steve Lerner and Tony Greenberg
as published by Microsoft TechNet
When faced with the many opportunities afforded by a cloud infrastructure—on-demand scale, potential cost reductions, elimination of complex maintenance processes, etc.—the decision to build a new application in a public cloud is often a no-brainer, especially for the buyer with the mindset of prioritizing agility and speed-to-market over customization and the perceived security/reliability advantages of internal infrastructure.
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Sunday, November 7th, 2010
Part 2 in a series on conflicts between environmental and economical impulses in all of us, and how we resolve them. Entire article here
“How to be green? Many people have asked us this important question. It’s really very simple and requires no expert knowledge or complex skills. Here’s the answer: Consume less. Share more. Enjoy life.” – Derek Wall
I was at a friend’s home recently when I noticed he had no paper napkins, towels or tissues, because, he said, he wanted to reduce impact on the planet. Meanwhile, his SubZero dishwasher was running full bore. Tug of War. Economics or Ethics?
And it got me thinking: In our pious zeal to feel better about the mess we’re collectively making of the planet, many of us have settled on personal steps to green things up a bit. But are those steps really worthwhile, or just sops to make us feel less guilty? What’s the real return on investment of these options compared to some alternative?
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Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
Will users force the door open on the walled gardens of private Internets?
By Alex Veytsel and Tony Greenberg
In the hubbub over the Google and Verizon new net neutrality plan, a couple of things stand out:
1) There is no actual deal, just a proposed compromise that no one actually likes
2) Everyone seems to be confused about the new, private Internet
While more viable than its critics suppose, this solution will implode in a wave of mistrust. Even if implemented, there is no equilibrium state possible between the public and private Internet. That’s because the new private Internet is not new – it’s what used to be called a walled garden.
When there is a free and open alternative (think AOL versus a typical modern ISP), the garden eventually withers as every able-minded user scrambles over the wall. When there is no alternative (think iPhone’s app store), it’s a monopolistic cash cow. Either way, sustained equilibrium between the two is rarely achieved. Each side is likely counting on the loss of that balance betting on their own models of the wall between private and public. And that gets us back to the wave of mistrust that will sink this ship before it leaves harbor.
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