Jeff Polczynski is the Director of Solutions Architecture at iland. Formerly, Jeff was a Network Engineer with iland who helped design and build the network infrastructure upon which the iland Cloud runs. Jeff loves to regale IT war stories from his 20 years as a Network and Security Engineer in government, financial services, and service provider sectors. Today he helps iland customers by tailoring the iland services into a personalized cloud solution.
One of the challenges in moving from an on-premise data center into the cloud is capacity planning. Common elements monitored on-premise for capacity planning include the utilization of CPU, RAM, storage, and network. At iland, our Enterprise Cloud Services billing is also based upon the consumption of CPU, RAM, storage, and network. On-premise, it is…
To continue with my hard-learned lessons that not all clouds are the same, I’m back to report on another feature that I was shocked to find absent in Microsoft’s Azure cloud: remote console access. As in my prior blog post about Azure’s lack of large disk support, this post follows the adventures of a friend of…
