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Article: ROI: Justifying the cloud |
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April 13 2011 - Blog post from The Armada Group's IT blog
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Describes how to use ROI in a way that creates values to adopting cloud architecture
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Article: Private Cloud: Elastic, or a hair ball of rubber? |
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March 30 2011 - Blog post from The Armada Group's IT blog
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Is your private cloud elastic, or just a tightly wrapped ball of rubber? In the war between private and public cloud, people question whether you can actually unleash the elasticity from that ball of rubber bands. This post describes how to evaluate elasticity in private cloud.
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Presentation: Webinar - Moving Apps to the Cloud: What you really need to know |
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March 11 2011 - The Armada Group, presented in conjunction with Rackspace
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Armada's Brad Vaughan will use the Armada Cloud Evaluation Framework™ to examine two common business applications – and all the factors that go into successfully moving them to the cloud. Areas to consider include: Workload, Architecture, Financial, Risk, Operations, Security. Within each of these general categories is a raft of more detailed questions that can be used to help you evaluate current cloud providers or can be directly linked to architectural design patterns that can define your private cloud.
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Article: It’s War: Public vs. Private Cloud Computing |
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March 11 2011 - The Armada Group's IT blog
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Describes the ongoing debate about the necessity of private clouds vs. public clouds. Includes discussion on the merits of public clouds for some applications and reviews scenarios where private may be a better option.
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