Mark Teson

In my last blog, 5 Disciplines of Cloud Governance for Azure, I talked about using the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) for Governance and using the five disciplines. In this blog, I will share more detail of how to implement these disciplines. The disciplines are cost management, security baseline, resource consistency, identity baseline and deployment acceleration.…

Governance can be an overwhelming undertaking. For the organization, it can be viewed as stifling innovation; for the IT department, it is viewed as necessary to prevent out of control resources causing havoc in billing and security. These two divergent cultures must figure out a way to implement a solid governance structure for the cloud…

Those of you have read part 1 and part 2 of this blog series already know all about the cloud migration framework — what it is, why it’s important and how to get started. This post will discuss the last piece of the puzzle: the migration. Migration Framework Key Steps for a Cloud Migration The…

In my last blog post, I discussed the importance of following a detailed framework when migrating to the cloud. By doing so, organizations ensure key areas are incorporated into their implementation and migration efforts remain consistent. This blog post dives deeper to discuss the data-gathering, analysis, dependencies and strategic roadmap phases of any successful framework.…

Migration to the cloud involves many steps and considerations. It makes no sense to just migrate virtual machines (VMs) with little or no planning or forethought. There are many websites and blogs out there that talk in detail about how to migrate to the cloud and the strategies you need to get there. In this…

Over the last five years, perhaps the biggest question IT pros have had to answer is: Should we move to the cloud or keep our infrastructure on-premises? The answer is probably yes – do both. That’s right. Because, despite all the hype around the cloud, very few organizations will be able to run seamlessly on…

When Microsoft announced on April 28, 2016 the general availability of Cool Blob Storage, my marketing eye was immediately twitching. What a great name! It immediately made me want to see what it was all about. That I was immediately attracted to it shows what a great marketing ploy this was. Cool Blob storage is…

In a previous blog post, I talked about how to take advantage of the cloud for disaster recovery (DR) and the key areas on which to focus. Taking advantage of the cloud for DR solutions can reduce business continuity expenses and provide a way to ensure that key services are operational in the event an…

[sayit]The question “what is hybrid cloud computing” often means different things to different people. Let’s try to define it. The best way to define hybrid cloud computing is to look at what the industry says, according to the NIST Definition of Cloud Computing: The cloud infrastructure is a composition of two or more distinct cloud…

Disaster recovery (DR) is a constant conversation with customers. At the Microsoft Ignite conference this year, Manoj Kumar Jain (Principal Program Manager) referenced a few statistics on disaster recovery: Most organizations experience four-plus disruptions each year and the average cost of disruption is $1.5 million an hour. With the increasing popularity of public clouds, the…

At the end of January, Amazon Web Services announced the preview of a new enterprise email service called Amazon WorkMail, designed to challenge the two largest enterprise messaging vendors:  Microsoft and Google.  Essentially, AWS is an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) vendor that incorporated an application into an infrastructure portfolio.  While not going into detail…