On 15 July 2015 I spoke on why enterprise cloud computing matters for the financial services industry. Have a look at my presentation below.
On June 30th we held our second Cloud Technology Information Lunch. Topic: “How DevOps and Cloud are transforming enterprise IT”.
For all participants and everyone who couldn’t make it to the event here we present a few pictures and the slides of the speakers.
Prodosh Banerjee, Safe Swiss Cloud: What is this DevOps thing and why do I need it?
Backup of business-critical data is obligatory for each and every organization. However, there is no backup strategy off the rack. It’s always dependent on the requirements and prerequesits of the respective organization.
From now on Safe Swiss Cloud is hosting his services at the colocation data center of Interxion. This decision was partly based on Interxion’s compliance with FINMA guidelines.
Excert from the press release:
We all like to try out things before we buy them. At Safe Swiss Cloud we have always allowed our users to try our system with a 30-day no risk guaranty.
Now we have a gone a step further and introduced a completely FREE offering which includes:
A FREE firewall virtual router appliance to keep your virtual data center safe
One FREE network segment to attach your virtual machine (VM) instances
A FREE compute offering for your virtual machine (VM) instances
The following diagram explains how this works:
Real enterprise cloud?
Think of it as your virtual data center (a package of IT infrastructure) becoming your cloud.
We think that a real enterprise cloud is about providing computing resources like CPUs, memory, disk space, network bandwidth, backup space etc. along with the tools to manage them. Most cloud providers however only provide a selection of virtual machines (VMs) of different sizes. We think they are selling glorified hosting and virtualization, but not a real cloud.