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