I’ve been seeing a lot of industry data citing that over a third of IT budgets are going to cloud solutions, and that progressive, innovative IT leaders are advocating a cloud-first design policy to reduce expenses and respond quicker to customer demand. I can confirm that this definitely rings true with our customers as their [...]
It’s winter in Seattle… and for those of you familiar with the weather here, that means it’s extra cloudy. So I think it’s only appropriate to discuss today how Avanade can help our customers manage their clouds. Today, Avanade announced that it has acquired Opstera software that provides monitoring and management of applications running on [...]
Microsoft held a global webcast today introducing the latest functionality in Windows Azure, including an expansion of the Virtual Machine (VM) functionality that now enables an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering from Microsoft. Avanade has a deep understanding of Windows Azure and we have been working closely with Microsoft before the public release today. These new features [...]
The question of Public Cloud versus Private Cloud is one of the most contentious in the field right now. It generates some very heated debate between evangelists of both camps. The answer is of course “Your Mileage May Vary”. The most important thing for an organisation making a decision in this area is that [...]
In IT, we often do a terrible job explaining the simplest things. Take the concept of Cloud Computing. To most people not in IT, they can’t even begin to understand what it is. In fact, it’s downright cloudy! For my inaugural blog, I thought I would spend some time helping to clear the skies and [...]
