Now the real work begins:

We need to really take advantage of the services offered by the Cloud Provider and begin moving up the stack. The first step is leveraging the Database as a Service offering of the Cloud Provider, this can drive significant savings and simplification.

Rule of thumb: Be a pessimist when designing architecture in any cloud; assume things will fail. In other words, always design, implement and deploy for automated recovery from failure. The Clouds that are being used have services and functions design to alleviate or automatically respond to failure scenarios. If you don’t use them then you are paying for a function that you have not taken advantage of.

Let us follow the trail of positive disruption and move along to a consumption ‘as a Service’ model

The first step is to move our virtualised workloads and longer term storage, backups and such, into Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).

Now that we have an idea of where we want to go, and why, let’s look at some prerequisites. This does not have to be a completed project, or even handled completely, separately but MUST begin before consumption of any form of ‘as a Service offerings’ can occur.

This is the start of a 5 post series that explores the journey from on-premise owned technology to service based cloud and serverless.

Where do we go with Enterprise Architecture in a new world where Microservice development done in an agile manner is our path forward and as-a-Service Services are the normal for disruptive development?

There are two ways to work out how ready your organisation is to make the shift to cloud-based consumption services. Do it yourself or hire a consultant. We look at the key benefits of each, and tell you what to watch out for. 

The difficulty comes when the existing Enterprise structure, that has been organically grown, has to be mapped into the Cloud Development in a way that allows true migration into the Cloud or even use of Cloud developed functions across the enterprise.

To me IT out-sourcing was always about the Customer-company transferring IT ownership/responsibility from themselves to the Out-sourcing supplier.

As a Network Architect when are we going to see the cloud vendors begin offering Network services in the same tiered manner as Storage?

Design and Architecture do differentiate startup from enterprise but designs do not have to be large treatise and they should provide guidance to the real world development.

Announcing the launch of my website

This week I have a discussion with the CIO of Wellington Water, Jake Davis, about his career in technology and what innovation looks like in the public sector. Jake has had a very interesting career covering both large multinationals, like Dell and Apple, but also 2 person startups. 


https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakedavis/

https://www.wellingtonwater.co.nz/

In this episode I lay out my technology predictions for 2020 and the decade of the 20's.

• Predictions seem to be rehashing last year

• AR/VR/XR - Haptic - 2020 is the year that business begin seeing value

• AI/ML/DL - Enterprise adoption and how these just become tools in IT

• Blockchain Ledger - PR problem

• IoT

• Autonomous vehicles

• Material Science, medical Science

• Math and Physics

This one is just me talking through my predictions for business adoption.

Why I called it Kiwi Innovators - a very short podcast

My Origin Story