Paul Woodward Jr.

Our Cloud Bill Is What?!—Battle of the Clouds Series

01/22/20 Submitted for your approval; a story of cloud horrors. One of performance issues impacting production. Where monthly cloud billing began spiraling out of control. The foll…

Battle of the Clouds: Where Do We Go From Here?

01/03/20 Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both Robert Frost At this point in our “Battle of the Clouds” journey, we’ve seen what the landscape of t…

Just Throw It in the Cloud! The Battle of the Clouds Series

12/13/19 Scenario: a mission-critical application is having performance issues during peak business hours. App developers blame the storage. The storage team blames the network. Th…

Private Cloud: I’m Not Quite Dead Yet

11/18/19 The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated—The On-Premises Data Center Mark Twain As I mentioned in my previous post, the hype cycle has the on-premises data center d…

Public Cloud: All Aboard the Hype Train!

11/13/19 We’ve all heard it before. “The cloud is the future!” “We need to move to the cloud!” “The on-premises data center is dead.” If you believe the analysts and marketing depa…