Brad Vaughan

Director of Cloud Migration Services at The Armada Group

Brad Vaughan is the Director of Cloud Migration Services and lead Solutions Architect at The Armada Group. Brad has over 20 years of experience in information technology including more than a decade in lead technical roles at Sun Microsystems and Oracle. He has extensive experience in cloud computing, integrated hardware/software systems and open source solutions. At Armada, Brad brings his proven success in global solutions architecture, managed services and consulting and robust communications skills that span the gap between executive and technical audiences.

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Article: ROI: Justifying the cloud
Describes how to use ROI in a way that creates values to adopting cloud architecture


Article: Private Cloud: Elastic, or a hair ball of rubber?
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.


Presentation: Webinar - Moving Apps to the Cloud: What you really need to know
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.


Article: It’s War: Public vs. Private Cloud Computing
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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