We’ve run the full range of services in the cloud here at SSWUG.org, here are some of the wins we’ve seen with our own systems. I’ll take a look at some of the pros and cons over the next couple of days based solely on our own experiences. Our experience is based on moving from on-premise to co-located serves to […]

Some interesting feedback on the post on Friday – wanted to share some thoughts and ideas on those. Specifically, David wrote in with several things that have been his experience in working with the cloud. I have to say, I’ve seen these quite a lot, both personally with project migration attempts (and failures) of our own, and those of people […]

The choice and what matters to you when you consider a cloud provider is, perhaps oddly, a very personal choice with all sorts of inputs… I saw a post on TechTarget that was all about PaaS – and making the selection of your vendor – being a very personal choice. As they said… Know Thyself. It’s so true. And it’s […]

The first time this happened, I didn’t believe it was real – someone deleted their production environment… oops – and no recovery process in sight? But it’s happened again… at least apparently. Perhaps it’s on of those “fake news” stories used for publicity or whatever, in which case it’s just something to make sure can’t happen to you. If it’s […]

Yesterday I talked a bit about the idea of sharing information for the “good of the many” – there is a lot to making good on the promise of this type of aggregate information. For example, just making the information between systems able to be used in any rational way is going to be a huge hurdle. If we start […]

I was reading through this post talking about trends in data platforms and was intrigued by Data Socialization. But is it really viable? Here’s a link to the post (Note: I realize I’m extrapolating here.) My question though is whether that’s even a legit overall destination for information. I think there is real value in data sharing across organizations. You […]

It used to be said, of a demanding, but uninformed boss, that they were a pointy-haired boss… after a certain comic. Does this still happen in your projects? Not specifically the affectionate (!) title, but more than issue of a boss that has demands, but is ill-informed about what things are that they’re asking for. When we’re talking with project […]

I had a few emails, and a comment on the site that indicate that people are still not entirely on board with cloud-based services. Security, security, security. Security is the issue that most people bring up as the reason for being cautious. It could be access to their information, it could be becoming a target for hacking, or it could […]

I know I talk a fair bit about all of the different types of solutions and approaches and environments you can be working with when getting your own data platform work going. But I thought I’d ask the simple question – Do you cloud? (Sorry for the grammatical murder there) – I’m curious if you feel things have moved on […]

If you’ve followed SSWUG.org for any time at all, you probably know I tend to incorporate security issues like encryption, protection, access controls, all of that – as often as I can. Heck, I’ve been know to make things up just to make sure it’s included in a discussion. To me, it’s that critical. But I was talking with a […]