by sebmatthews | Aug 13, 2015 | Cloud, Governance, Microsoft, Office 365, SharePoint
So we’re clear, this isn’t a post about “oooh, how to fix a problem that is simply a replay of TechNet content” – I’m more interested in the philosophy of this kind of issue given the new challenges that Microsoft face now that...
by sebmatthews | Jan 6, 2015 | Cloud, Governance, Office 365
Software as a Service, or SaaS, is the delivery of a business or personal productivity solution from the Cloud to the user. It’s a software solution typically exhibiting all of the characteristics of Cloud computing (see here) with its key aspect being in the...
by sebmatthews | Jan 5, 2015 | Azure, Cloud, Governance
Cloud Computing is the delivery of Information Technology services and solutions within delivery models that are characterised in their exhibition of five key facets: User driven service control, resource elasticity, device/location agnosticism, unit based &...
by sebmatthews | Jun 2, 2014 | Azure, Cloud, Governance, Office 365
I’ve said it before and I will say it again. The terminology associated to the Cloud confuses those who don’t live and breathe it, (and let’s face it, some of those that do live and breathe Cloud are also pretty confused… 🙂 For me the biggest...
by sebmatthews | Jan 7, 2014 | Cloud, Governance, Office 365
I enjoy a good chinwag (don’t we all?) and yesterday got embroiled in a philosophical conversation about the challenges associated to the Cloud beyond the usual security and sovereignty pairing always raised when discussing the subject. A chunk of the discussion...
by sebmatthews | Dec 18, 2013 | Governance, Microsoft
It’s been on the cards for a while, but Microsoft has finally announced the “retirement” of Unified Access Gateway (UAG) with no future major version planned. UAG has always been a strange, slightly pickled member of the Microsoft stack (as was TMG)...
