Why I ditched my servers for the Cloud
August 26, 2014
Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Jason Perlow.
Over the last two years, due to career changes, I’ve made the transition from datacenter consolidation specialist to a cloud architect. It could be argued that very little has actually changed in terms of the tools of the trade and the methodologies that I work with, as both make heavy use of virtualization and systems automation, but the reality is that I haven’t done a lot of work in the datacenter itself since shifting the focus of what I do.
In my professional life, I help hosters, service providers and ISVs build new cloud offerings, whether they are deployed as IaaS, desktops as a service or hosted/subscriber applications via SaaS. If it’s cloud in the public or in the private space, I’m all over it. Until recently though, I didn’t practice what I preached. Vestiges of my former life still existed, in the form of my own private server lab, which I used for software testing and storing files and for multitudes of other things…
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