There are some common initial questions people have when they are considering building a cloud, questions like:

• Is the cloud right for me?
• Should I go private, public, or hybrid?
• Is it best to keep the cloud separate from the rest of my IT, or should I merge them?
• How […]

Your company has decided to set up a Performance Testing Environment, referred to as PTE from now on, with production sized data volumes, allowing them to do  some real testing and get accurate SQL optimizer paths through your data.  Imagine the costs involved; the hardware costs to run the environment, the duplicated DASD to hold the data (this must have been a storage vendor’s idea), the operational costs to keep it operating smoothly, the people […]