- The cloud is more appealing than ever, but cloud strategies (where they exist) often lack critical information about skills and roles, governance, and financial controls.
- Not all clouds are created equal, and the value propositions across service models can differ dramatically.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- You shouldn’t move a workload to the cloud unless you expect to benefit from cloud-specific features. If your justification for the migration is “it won’t be here anymore,” think again.
- Clouds have different benefits – align your workload to the right one. Host with IaaS; build with PaaS; consume with SaaS.
- The cloud changes roles – it doesn’t eliminate them. Even if you stick everything in SaaS, you’ll need someone to manage vendor relationships.
Impact and Result
- Creating and employing a comprehensive framework for evaluating workloads’ suitability for the cloud using Info-Tech’s methodology will allow you to select optimal cloud service models (or colocation, on-premises, or managed solutions) and provide the high-quality service end users expect from IT.
- Codifying risks tied to workloads’ cloud suitability and tying them to mitigations that can be employed to improve the likelihood of a successful cloud project.
- Designing a cloud strategy to ensure that any cloud migration initiatives are successful in terms of governance, monitoring and reporting, financial controls, success factors, focus, people, and processes.