Friday, April 29, 2016

Prep for a Cloudy time ahead - Adopting Cloud


Moving Development & Testing to Cloud:

  • Development and test environments soon will be all on Cloud, as strategy to move from on-premise infrastructure and application installation into cloud for temporary needs seems surely beneficial to businesses
  • Even for doing POCs and evaluations before taking up journey to implement a software can be better handled by using a Cloud for the time needed

Deploying Business Process to Cloud:
  • Review OOTB Cloud service offering
  • Map & align current business process to OOTB offering
  • Configure the service offered
  • Integrate the service to rest of the ecosystem (other clouds/non-cloud systems)
  • Migrate data, Test & Adopt
Hybrid & Mix: 
  • Many businesses are gong with Hybrid approach by carrying combination of on-premises, private cloud & public clouds
  • Even going to multiple vendors for different cloud services is seen often as per recent market research on customers using Cloud
IT Department:
  • Need for new learning and skills 
  • Prepping for right partnership for journey to Cloud
  • First Cloud experience & Maintenance to upgrade/enhance/support Cloud services afterwards

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