EU Sovereign Cloud List

The rule of law is a fundamental principle from the Mesopotanian Code Ur-Nammu, through Magna Carta to International Criminal Court's decisiion to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternatives. Data sovereignty requires certainty that services will never be terminated or at the mastery of a governmental body. For this reason I find it useful… Continue reading EU Sovereign Cloud List

Enterprise Architect’s Guide to Cloud Licencing Models

Moving to cloud licencing models, including SaaS, does not become less difficult and with the possible proliferation of services can become difficult for the Enterprise to govern. As with any type of licence agreement the Enterprise must know the agreement they have signed, the implications of the licensing model and the interaction on other 3rd… Continue reading Enterprise Architect’s Guide to Cloud Licencing Models

Edge SDN as a Service

Not all micro-services can be stateless lambda functions. Some services must maintain state. A good example is the management of autonomous vehicle platooning functions across multiple radio network sites. A challenge for this distributed statefulness is if the stateful micro-services are running in a specific container then how does the SDN controller manage networking to… Continue reading Edge SDN as a Service

Cloud Migration of a Legacy IT Estate

There are many things to consider when migrating a legacy IT estate to the cloud. The first though must be what are the motivations and expected benefits. Many organisations have many decades of developed software running on private infrastructure and migration to the cloud is something they think they should do. Migrating an estate to… Continue reading Cloud Migration of a Legacy IT Estate

Bringing IT (OSS) all together

I try and fit components together logically so that they can make the most of what the technology offers. I work predominantly in the OSS world on new access technologies like 5G and implementations like the Internet of Things. I want to achieve not just the deployment of these capabilities but to also to let… Continue reading Bringing IT (OSS) all together