I recently participated in an interview with Tom Smith (https://dzone.com/users/1450207/ctsmithiii.html), Research Strategist at DZone on the topic – “Most Important Elements of the Cloud”.
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To gather insights on the current and future state of the cloud, we talked to IT executives from 33 companies about their, and their clients’, use of the cloud. We asked, “What do you see as the most important elements of the cloud?” Here’s what they told us:
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https://dzone.com/articles/dzone-research-the-most-important-elements-of-the
A few items I had strong inputs into – Foundational Cloud themes –
1) Executives need to understand that Cloud is not an ERP project and should not let vendors turn it into one. The cloud is a progression, most orgs have a lot of virtualization in place first, they then start to cut cost with Open Stack, adopt public cloud and then slowly transition into deploying cloud-optimized applications.
2) A key tenet is to shy away from undue complexity in cloud management. Simplify cloud management. Move away from a model of paying millions in consulting and product to stand up a cloud. Drive immediate business value. How fast can one get started at scale and expand? That’s a key metric.
3) DevOps teams at forward-looking companies are getting more and more cross-functional. Though exact roles will vary by org and group. Be nudged in a direction that makes an enterprise-wide DevOps model possible. A common way is to create a startup like/Mode 2 operation that can unshackle developers from a monolithic corporate stack. Think in a different way to create apps.
4) No organization is cloud-optimized across all internal IT- ever. Not all applications are cloud optimized. The Greenfield must use the cloud, but a big portion of the Brownfield continues to live on VMs and Bare Metal. Legacy apps require refactoring but not re-platforming.