“Cloud computing is an operational model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.”
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, August 2009
I believe the key words are “operational model“. In my opinion, cloud computing is the transformation of how we traditionally leverage on technology to support the business. A cloud computing strategy is about identifying and distributing specific, suitable business tasks onto the public and/or private network, using attached compute, storage, and network resources to facilitate more cost effective and responsive services to users. Regardless the target deployment is to a public cloud, private cloud (in-house or hosted), or hybrid, moving an enterprise’s IT to be a cloud service is a complex transformation that requires fundamental changes to many IT related processes. Organizations should evolve from a state of multiple, disjoint silos with their associated inefficiencies, through increasingly advanced operational models to the cloud.
It is with this goal in mind that Sun Data Center Efficiency Practice, within our Professional Services arm, launched the Cloud Strategic Planning & Analysis service offering a few months ago. The aim is to help our customers get started..
Feel free to have a look at our Solution Brief.
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