Tag Archives: Cloud Computing

Cost of the Cloud

Posted on June 28, 2011 by way0utwest

One of the benefits of moving to a cloud infrastructure for IT services should be a reduced cost. The economies of scale for having specialized staff, licensing, etc. are more evident when you have more of everything. The larger you … Continue reading →

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Excel in the Clouds

Posted on June 21, 2011 by way0utwest

I think that no matter what happens with Windows, SQL Server, and many other Microsoft products, Excel will be with us forever. It seems as though this quote is true: “Excel is a leading tool for data analysis today” (From … Continue reading →

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Cloud Outages

Posted on June 13, 2011 by way0utwest

It seems that almost every few weeks there’s some announcement of an outage for a large service provider on the Internet. We’ve had Amazon Web Services go down, numerous Salesforce.com issues, and Microsoft’s Office 365 recently had problems. Most of … Continue reading →

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The Care of Data

Posted on June 1, 2011 by way0utwest

DBAs are supposed to be trustworthy. After all, they are the custodians of data and often have access to sensitive information because of the nature of their system administrator level privileges. Their turnover ought to be low, and hopefully they … Continue reading →

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