The hybrid Cloud has emerged as the dominant Cloud deployment pattern over the last few years. While there is great interest in adopting public Cloud services from providers such as Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, mature enterprises inevitably have heavy investments in existing data centers and IT infrastructure that they still want to leverage and optimize.…
DetailsOne of the essential processes that Cloud adoption requires is a formal framework for Cloud Portfolio Management (CPM). Cloud portfolio management provides a means by which an organization can control and govern existing services, new services, and well as the Cloud providers and the relationship with them. The rapid adoption of Cloud has meant that…
DetailsCloud computing has entered the early mainstream of adoption worldwide, and Cloud adoption is accelerating. The rapid rise of Cloud computing has strained IT governance, security and oversight processes as they adapt to deal with new technologies and services. Cloud’s rapid rise to ascendancy has been astonishing. Interestingly, there has also been a consolidation of…
DetailsWith the growing market adoption of Cloud computing, demand for a formal Cloud computing strategy is increasing. We’ve identified five Cloud strategy “archetypes,” or patterns, that are emerging as the key motivators and factors driving that demand. Each of these archetypes represents a given Cloud adoption pattern that is approaching Cloud strategy differently. Strategy First…
DetailsThere is high demand for Cloud strategy expertise, and it is not surprising given the market adoption of Cloud computing. Cloud computing is entering the early mainstream phase of adoption, which means that it is gaining market share and is widely accepted as a legitimate technology model to pursue by most organizations. However, the dynamics…
DetailsEarlier this month, we published the 2017 Top IaaS Cloud Services Provider Pricing Comparison, a cloud pricing comparison of public cloud providers with data centers in North America. The report includes pricing for virtual machines (VMs) running Linux and Windows operating systems for hourly, monthly, annual, and 3-year contractual terms. Providers Included in the Cloud…
DetailsIn the last blog (Blog 3), we explored the last four pieces of the Cloud Readiness Domain Model. In this final installment of the Cloud Readiness Blog Series, we provide an overview of the Cloud Readiness process and engagement model, describing how the process is performed with a Client. The Cloud Readiness Assessment Process The…
DetailsIn the last blog (Blog 2 in the series), we explored the first four elements of the Cloud Readiness Domain Model. This blog will explore the last four pieces of the Cloud Readiness Domain Model. Cloud Security Readiness Cloud security readiness focuses on the various policy and guidance, security controls and enforcement/oversight and assurance processes,…
DetailsIn part one of this series, we provided some essential context for Cloud Readiness by framing the importance of developing a Cloud strategy, and determining whether your Cloud goals and objectives were incremental in nature, with a limited scope; or transformational and targeting the entire enterprise value chain. In this post, we present the Cloud…
DetailsIntroduction Cloud readiness is a term used frequently as Cloud computing matures into early mainstream adoption. Cloud readiness refers to an organization’s relative capacity to successfully adopt Cloud computing capabilities into its organizational fabric – the culture, its business processes, into its products and services, and into its information technology (IT) capabilities. Most Cloud readiness…
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