Guidelines for a cloud strategy
The first step of defining a cloud strategy is aligning the IT goals and objectives with the key business objectives of the organization. This alignment requires a strong foundation that involves a streamlined IT process. Let’s analyze the need for a cloud strategy in the context of business use cases:
- The application requires auto-scaling: If the business is not able to provide a consistent requirement for resources, IT will turn to more robust ways of optimizing resource utilization. Elastic scale-up and scale-down are usually termed auto-scaling, which is a good functionality. The cloud provides this option and bleeds into the next business problem.
- Capital expenditure (CapEx) versus operational expenditure (OpEx): As an IT organization, do I invest in more resources or do I pay only for resources used based on a consumption or pay-as-you-go model? Which parts of my application stack can I consume as software as a service (SaaS...