Written by Kevin Derman CEO Kaskade.Cloud I am sure that there is no one who would argue against the notion that the world is getting faster and faster. The rate of technological change is accelerating and most of us...
Written by Russell Warne Chief Customer Officer Kaskade.cloud In the first part of this blog post, we covered the analogy of comparing different cloud providers to villages, towns, cities and mega-cities. If you missed it you can read it...
Part One – What is cloud anyway? By Russell Warne CCO Kaskade Whatever industry you’re in, you tend to forget that what seems obvious to you is Greek to someone who isn’t in the same game. In IT we’re...
There may be a couple of places left for the CloudHealth Cost Optimisation Masterclass – please check out the links for the Cape Town or Johannesburg event to verify. News – If you’ve been waiting for EC2 server instance size to reach “yowzers!”, you’ll...
In January this year, I made a few predictions on what the top IT topics would be in Africa for 2018. I happened to do something today that few ever actually do, and that is verify if the predictions...
Open up any technology article these days and you will find mention of Artificial Intelligence in one or another shape or form. The reference will either be touting one of the amazing benefits we experience with using AI or...
Reserved instances (RI’s and other lesser known reservation options) are a great way to save money. But they can also be quite confusing, especially when it comes to things like cross-account RI float, size flexibility and variable attributes. Let’s...
When it comes to cutting costs on AWS, the biggest chunk to aim for is compute cost. In our experience,compute services – think anything EC2 backed – make up almost 70% of an organization’s AWS spend, which makes it...