Cloud Adoption Strategy

Cloud adoption is a planned move by organizations that are trying to reduce maintenance cost at the same time eliminate on-site maintenance.

Adopting cloud, an enterprise can transform IT from being an in-house software capability into an outsourced capability.

Team of experts will perform a meticulous analysis on an enterprise’s current environment including infrastructure, data bases, networks, applications, customized hardware, extensions and interfaces.

Once a comprehensive report is created, based on the outcomes the team will recommend a plan of action to accomplish the best migration strategy

A cloud adoption strategy should be able to maximize the ROI.

In order to do that, the cloud adoption team should be properly trained on the basic concepts of cloud computing including characteristics of cloud computing, service models, and deployment models.

Knowing the pros and cons of each model will help them develop a business case and ROI model that can be used in the analysis of cloud services.

Before getting on to the phase of selecting a vendor it is crucial to evaluate the different  vendors they are partnered with and the team's capability to handle requirements.  This will help identify shortfalls and gaps between the organizations cloud vision and the present state. This information is vital for understanding what type of assistance is required for successful planning of cloud adoption strategy.

In addition to all of these parameters, for a cloud to be successful, organizations should take efforts to identify areas in which the eventuality of business innovation occurring is high and revolutionize and differentiate those areas using cloud computing.

The future is going to be all cloud. Might as well think now, and sketch a plan.