Category Archives: Enterprise Architecture

A Brief Guide to a Successful Testing Experience

By Toni Taylor | Published: September 11, 2011

By Pearson VUE After all the preparation and studying you’ve done, we want to make sure that you know what to expect on testing day. To help you along, we’ve put together a short list of things you need to know. • Get a good night’s sleep before you take your exam. Being well rested [...]

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Focusing your Cloud Strategy

By Toni Taylor | Published: January 15, 2011

Recently we discussed the idea of how central to your cloud computing strategy’s success is having focus. You can garner that focus by…

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A Real-World Example of How Cloud Computing Simplifies IT

By jaszmin | Published: January 15, 2011

A good example of how the cloud can simplify IT is this. As a Government or business employee you can’t access email while on travel, or have to use a web client that you have to re-learn every time you travel because you don’t use it often enough to remember. Others have email access, with [...]

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Defining Cloud Computing Deployment Models

By Toni Taylor | Published: January 4, 2011

The public cloud or external cloud is provisioned to you by an off-site, third party, from its own facility. You pay for the service on a utility computing payment model…Your end-users access web applications and web services over the Internet, and it doesn’t matter which operating system or…

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The Three General Categories of Cloud Computing

By Toni Taylor | Published: January 2, 2011

Cloud computing is a catchall phrase, for anything that delivers hosted services over the Internet, and how those services are divided into three general categories – IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS…

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Simplifying Cloud Computing

By Toni Taylor | Published: December 31, 2010

Cloud computing is a catchall phrase of sorts, for anything that delivers hosted services over the Internet. Those services are divided among three categories…

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The Next Generation Data Center – Cloud Computing

By jaszmin | Published: December 3, 2010

Cloud computing is Web-based processing, delivering access to shared resources, software, and information to end-user computers and other devices to access files and applications over the Internet.

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The Pros and Cons of Outsourcing Credentialing

By Toni Taylor | Published: November 24, 2010

Initiating a training, certification, or licensing program may sound like a simple proposition, especially since there is an entire industry established to train and certify workers…There are a lot of moving parts to a training, certification, or licensing program, which we like to call a “credentialing program”. Many organizations make the decision to go it alone and manage its credentialing program in-house. Here we discuss the pros and cons of outsourcing your credentialing program.

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Training, Certification, and Licensing – Preparing for Success

By Toni Taylor | Published: November 22, 2010

Initiating a training, certification, or licensing program may sound like a simple proposition, especially since there is an entire industry established to train and certify workers…There are a lot of moving parts to a training, certification, or licensing program, which we like to call a “credentialing program”. Many organizations make the decision to go it alone and manage its credentialing program in-house. Often by making it an additional responsibility of one or more personnel, or a single dedicated person.

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The Next Generation Data Center – Cloud Computing

By Toni Taylor | Published: November 11, 2010

There has been a lot of talk lately about cloud computing. The most often asked questions that I hear are 1) What is cloud computing? 2) How can I benefit from implementing cloud computing? Besides becoming “…the phrase de jour”, says Gartner senior analyst Ben Pring, cloud computing is Web-based processing, delivering access to  shared [...]

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