Characteristics of private cloud computing resources To recap, a private cloud is a dedicated entity (single-tenant) computing model. The following are the characteristics of private cloud computing resources: The following are examples of private cloud platforms: Azure Stack or VMware VCloud. Characteristics of hybrid cloud computing resources To recap, a hybrid cloud is a combination […]
Digital transformation triggers The reason to adopt any disruptive technology, especially one that can have a business impact, needs to start with a trigger relevant to the stakeholder’s pain points or objectives and any business operations or technical operations drivers. This move often begins with a business directive-led discussion rather than a technology-led one; a […]
Comparing the cloud computing delivery models From the last section, we can now define what the delivery models are. This section looks at the characteristics of each model in more detail to help you understand when you may choose one over the other. Each delivery model has several characteristics. The most appropriate model is defined […]
Cloud computing’s target audience Cloud computing can be different things to different people depending on their perspective and their role or function. A business leader will have one idea of what cloud computing needs to deliver, which will be very different from the technology leader and very different from a developer, a database admin, or […]
Cloud computing operations model Elastic, scalable, agile, fault-tolerant, highly available, and disaster recovery are all terminology associated with cloud computing, adding value, and benefiting an organization’s operational model. These inherent and defining characteristics allow a workload deployed into a cloud computing environment to become highly available and scale in and out (both vertically and horizontally), […]
What is a cloud computing mindset? The following outlines what we see as a cloud computing model mindset and contrasts with a traditional computing mindset: This section looked at the cloud computing mindset. The following section looks at the concept of the cloud computing hierarchy of needs. Cloud computing hierarchy of needs The IT services […]
A closer look at the cloud computing service models Cloud computing is all about abstraction. This abstraction model approach means removing layer(s) that you no longer need to care about; the layer still exists, but it is being handled by somebody else and frees up resources to concentrate on other layers that are of more […]
Operational benefits of cloud computing This section will look at the operational benefits that cloud computing can add to an organization over those provided in a traditional computing model. Cloud computing platforms primarily provide the following operational benefits over traditional computing models: The listed operational benefits may be an inherent built-in platform function that provides […]
What is serverless computing? As this book’s context is that of the knowledge and skills required to pass a Microsoft certification exam successfully, we should start with understanding Microsoft’s definition of serverless: “Serverless computing enables developers to build applications faster by eliminating the need for them to manage infrastructure. With serverless applications, the cloud service […]
The economics of cloud computing We’ll look at the consumption-based model, one of the two economic characteristics of cloud computing compared to traditional computing economics; the second economic characteristic that cloud computing is based upon is the cost expenditure model of OpEx. Consumption-based model? In a nutshell, a consumption model means paying only for what […]