In order to manage fast-growing traffic to ensure optimal application performance in cost-effective ways, nowadays, enterprises are facing the problem of an increase in requirements for their data center and cloud architectures. Following are the 5 key differences that make…
How to Plan a Cloud Migration?
Let’s welcome 2020 with a Cloud based discussion, specifically let’s talk about Cloud Migrations. Cloud computing has been around now for more than a decade and it has become very common for organisations to execute cloud migrations in order to…
The uncertain future of UK IT Professionals
At this moment in time the UK IT Industry is facing difficult times due to a combination of events that have not yet unfolded and made their conseguences clear. I am talking about Brexit and IR35 Applied to Private Sector.
How to track your migration activities and progress
In this article, I want to share my structured approach in managing, planning, tracking and reporting against migration activities. As previously mentioned in other posts, the foundation behind a successful migration is to have a clear and consolidated inventory, with…
How Resilient is your IT Infrastructure?
A neglected legacy infrastructure is a serious threat to the business continuity of an organisation. Several issues combined (e.g. outdated hardware, low resilience and autonomy in the backup systems, poor maintenance and lack of proper BCP) can cause critical system…
Windows 10 Migration Rollout Approach
In this article I will explain you how to approach the rollout/deployment phase.
Preparing for a Windows 10 Migration
I recently project managed a Windows 7 to Windows 10 migration, involving over 5000 users over 6 sites in two European countries. I would like to share some of the key activities usually required to lay the groundwork in order…
The 7 phases of a Migration Project
Migration projects are in growing demand for the evolution of today’s organisations. They come in different shapes and forms, such as datacentres migrations desktops operating systems, e.g. win server 2003, win xp applications, changing vendors, new versions of your CRM or…
Big Data Platform Migration – Challenges
Similarly to a Data Center migration (P2V, V2V, L&S, etc) there are many challenges, risk and issues that can affect the delivery of a big data platform migration. Below are some of the main challenges I recently faced working on…
Privacy Based Coins – Anonymous Transactions on the Blockchain
For many years it has been wrongly believed that using cryptocurrency payments would be completely anonymous and users activity could not be traced. Bitcoin was indeed the payment solution chosen by Darknet users for illicit activities such as selling and…