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August 21, 2026 Posted in Data Migration, Datacenter, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Integration, Investment Optimization

There is a common requirement to migrate datacenter from on-premises to cloud.

During my consulting career, I led several on-premises datacenter migrations. Additionally, these projects targeted financial, utilities, and transportation organizations.

To give you a big-picture view, I outline the datacenter structure.

The datacenter structure includes racks, power bus, cooling towers, networking gear, air handling units, backup generation, and water storage. This layout supports power distribution, environmental control, and resilience. Understanding how these elements interact helps operators plan capacity and respond to changes.

Within each rack, components such as network switches, cable management, servers, and cooling modules exist...

December 29, 2016 Posted in Blogs

For many developers or small teams, it’s ideal to have a free cloud-based source control system for distributed development work. The benefits are obvious, most people enjoy working at home or creating something that may really excite themselves in after hours. This article introduces how to set up such an environment for your development work. Hope you enjoy it!

GitHub is hot but not free for private projects; Heroku is not free for any project with more than 1 contributor.

In this case, GitLab is a lot better. It offers free unlimited repositories for both public and private projects, 10GB disk space per project, unlimited collaborators and complete project management solutions. This is why GitLab.com is our chosen cloud repository platform.

Here’s the steps:

1. Sign up to GitLab...