Technology for technology’s sake is not the answer. When applied properly, in the right amounts, technology can dramatically improve a company’s ability to provide their product/service, build relationships with customers and simplify day-to-day processes. For over 11 years, I have worked to help companys understand how technology can revolutionize their business without breaking their budgets. Techgility.com is a collection of my work and a little bit of information about my background for those that are interested in such things.
DECA Case Study: Sys-Con Media
Founded in 2009, DECA Financial Services is an accounts receivable management (ARM) agency experienced in collecting debt of any type. After experiencing tremendous capital expenditures on technology infrastructure and personnel at a prior employer, the DECA founders searched for a cloud hosting provider that offered ease-of-use and scalability to host their technology platform. Being a [...]
SaaS Infrastructure Choices: An Analysis
This is a presentation that I delivered as part of Softletter’s SaaS University event in Washington, D.C. on July 20th, 2010. I discussed the challenges for most software companies of moving to a SaaS model and what choices they have for hosting the infrastructure required for the new solution.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/103761/SaaS%20University%20DC.pptx
Happenings In The Cloud
Sixto Ortiz Jr. featured my employer, BlueLock, and me in an article on Processor.com (circ. 169,569). My comments were highlighted numerous times throughout the article about new technologies/trends readers should be paying attention to in the area of cloud computing.
http://www.processor.com/editorial/article.asp?article=articles/P3214/28p14/28p14.asp&guid
Does This Cloud Make My App Look Fat?
The topic of the 5 minute lightning talk was about scaling applications in the cloud. I hope it was well-received. In the on-premise, physical server world both “scale-up” and “scale-out” approaches were impractical based on cost and complexity. 4-way or 8-way servers with gobs and gobs of RAM are an expensive way [...]
TechEd 2009 Presentation – Hyper-V HA/DR
High Availability, Disaster Recovery Considerations for Microsoft Hyper-V
Download the PPT Here
Hyper-V Virtualization enables multiple IT workloads to run on a single physical machine as virtual machines (VMs). Fewer physical machines can lead to reduced costs through lower hardware, energy, and management overhead, plus the creation of a more dynamic IT infrastructure. With this capability, however, [...]
VMworld Europe Interviews w/Speedfire 3 of 3
Trends for the disaster recovery market for 2009.
http://www.viddler.com/explore/speedfire/videos/194/
VMworld Europe Interviews w/Speedfire 2 of 3
Speaking about an important strategy change, new products and services that are coming in 2009.
http://www.viddler.com/explore/speedfire/videos/195/
VMworld Europe Interviews w/Speedfire 1 of 3
Why haven’t storage vendors moved more into the DR market in terms of broad-based replication or DR solutions?
http://www.viddler.com/explore/speedfire/videos/196/
VMworld Europe 2009 Presentation
An Optimized Approach to Workload Availability in Virtualized Environments
Virtualization enables multiple IT workloads to run on a single physical machine as virtual machines (VMs). Fewer physical machines can lead to reduced costs through lower hardware, energy, and management overhead, plus the creation of a more dynamic IT infrastructure. However, not every application can or will [...]
TechReady 2009 – Internal MSFT Presentation
Disaster Recovery Solutions with Hyper-V and Double-Take Software
Technical presentation to internal Microsoft field technical sales and professional services personnel about disaster recovery and high availability for Hyper-V virtualized environments.
