Getting to Cloud
Discovering New Business Opportunities with Cloud Computing.
GETTING TO CLOUD unravels the mystery and
hype behind cloud computing and reveals its true power and beauty.
Get the real definitions of private Clouds, public Clouds,
Hybrid clouds and
the different versions of each.
Understand how Cloud will impact the IT reseller market, the
opportunities, the changes in revenue, sales processes and customer
relationships.
Get real insight into the magic of virtualization, introducing
the complete suite of IT management products available from
leading virtualization vendors.
Explore step by step the questions you must ask yourself when
considering virtualization and/or Cloud for your business.
Get valuable insight into business case cost savings examples
behind virtualization.
Know what questions you must ask Cloud Service Providers, and
the reporting data they must provide you to assure 'best of
service'.
Gain insight into how Cloud, and virtualization, will change
the landscape for power intensive applications such as Business
Intelligence Analytics.
For IT Resellers
GETTING TO CLOUD covers the market, the business
and the future of cloud computing to answer such questions as:
- What are the real drivers behind Cloud?
- How will Cloud impact my business?
- How can I use Cloud to best advantage?
- What choices do I have in integrating Cloud into our current
product and service portfolio?
- What resource skills will I need more of in the future?
- How will I plan for the change to Cloud?
- What impact will it have on our revenue model?
- What is the best commercial model to adopt Cloud into IT
reselling?
- When should we start offering Cloud services?
- What license models will vendors likely offer?
- What are the concerns enterprise managers have with Cloud,
and how can we overcome those?
- What is the future of Cloud?
For Enterprise IT Managers
Before making any decisions around Cloud, the IT manager must
fully understand both the impact on the business of continuing
with their current IT strategy and modus operandi, as well as
the pros and cons of integrating Cloud into their IT environment.
There is much hot debate around various elements of Cloud and
virtualization, and also much confusion.
GETTING TO CLOUD helps clarify Cloud in terms
of your unique IT environment and requirements, by answering
questions such as:
- Do you fully understand the Cloud environment sufficient
to make any decisions regarding Getting to Cloud?
- Do you currently have a reliable, valid view of the costs
of running your current infrastructure?
- Do you understand and accept the risks of public Cloud
computing environments?
- How would your decision differ in respect to different
types of applications used in your organization?
- Do you want/need to own the hardware your data runs on?
- If you do own the hardware, do you want/need to virtualize
your enterprise environment?
- If you do wish to virtualize, how far should you go?
- Do you fully understand the impact of virtualization?
- What is the benefit of internal virtualization compared
to public Cloud, of Virtual Private Cloud?
- Does the lower cost of computing through economy of scale
balance or outweigh your current IT model?
- Will the Cloud better meet your enterprise needs than your
current environment, and is it likely to continue to do so
in the near future?
- Are there Cloud providers currently able to better meet
your needs, and who have sufficient experience and trustworthiness?
- What are the top 5 things holding you back from adopting
Cloud?
- How valid are those reason in terms of your current performance?
In other words, are you expecting absolute 100% ideal from
Cloud, instead of improving on your current state?
- What can you do to overcome those concerns, in the short
term, and in the longer term?
- Is the cost of these concerns more or less than not going
to Cloud?
Looking at the answers you gave for each question, where possible,
challenge your opinion with valid evidence. Sometimes, the very
fact that you cannot do this indicates that there are greater
gaps in your awareness of state or control of your current IT
environment.
GETTING TO CLOUD is part of the TLO
Management Insight Series supporting The
Logical Organization.
Author: Gail La Grouw
Publisher: Electrosmart
Size 9"x 6"
Pages: 362
GETTING TO CLOUD - Discovering New Business Opportunities with
Cloud Computing.
