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You can’t put a 10 year old engine into a new car without some reengineering

[fa icon="calendar'] Dec 9, 2020 2:03:18 PM / by Charles Dada posted in Cloud Shock, cloud first, enterprise cloud, Cloud migration, Azure

One of the questions I’m often asked is: “how easy is it to move to public cloud?” There’s only one answer: it depends. Unless we understand exactly what an organisation’s objectives are, and what  systems and applications it has (and some organisations don’t know this themselves) it’s impossible to give a definite answer. There are too many variables and dependencies that can affect the end result.

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Be a hero with our seven principles for effective Azure cost management!

[fa icon="calendar'] Jun 16, 2020 1:45:00 PM / by Caroline Houlden posted in Cloud Shock, Azure

After migrating your IT services to the Cloud, it is easy to assume that you are getting value for money. However, needs change and vendor offers are continually evolving. With the pressure on organisations to reduce expenditure, now is a good time to review your cloud implementation for opportunities to reduce costs.

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Saving money on Microsoft Azure using Reserved Instances

[fa icon="calendar'] Jan 31, 2018 9:00:58 AM / by Richard Green posted in Cloud, cloud intermediation, Cloud Shock, Azure



One of the reasons more and more organisations are adopting cloud services of one flavour or another is that the costs can come out of operational expenditure in nice little monthly packages instead of giant wedges of capital expenditure. Cloud also has the benefit of scale, enabling us to obtain better protected and more reliable services faster than we can often build them on-premise for the equivalent cost. However, that doesn’t mean we need to pay the recommended retail price.

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What’s the point of managed cloud?

[fa icon="calendar'] Nov 2, 2017 3:06:49 PM / by Caroline Houlden posted in managed cloud, Fordway Managed Services, Cloud Shock, enterprise cloud

We’re all now familiar with the benefits of cloud computing: limitless capacity, almost total flexibility and increased efficiency, as well as transferring costs from Capex to Opex.

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Managing multiple cloud providers from a single pane of glass

[fa icon="calendar'] Aug 16, 2017 10:42:57 AM / by Caroline Houlden posted in Fordway Managed Services, Cloud, cloud intermediation, Cloud Shock, Cloud Monitoring

Most organisations moving services to cloud over the next few years will find themselves managing a hybrid solution - a mix of in-house, third party and public  cloud services. This means they’ll need to find an integrated way to manage their cloud portfolio, because every supplier will claim ‘it’s not my fault” when a problem arises, and they could waste a good deal of time tracking down the culprit.

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Beware cloud shock!

[fa icon="calendar'] Jan 18, 2017 12:00:00 AM / by Richard Blanford posted in managed cloud, Cloud, cloud intermediation, Cloud Shock

Have you been tempted by the falling costs of public cloud services? The big players are improving their offers all the time, and with some also setting up UK data centres to meet forthcoming GDPR requirements, server/instances of a few pounds per month can look like a very good deal. And for many organisations and many services, it is.

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