THE STRAIGHT TRUTH ABOUT A
CLOUD FIRST STRATEGY
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ou are focused on building an
infrastructure, which enables your
organisation to innovate at speed
and gain new insights to stay ahead of
the competition.
You must deliver these capabilities while
maintaining intelligent cost control
and improving the productivity and
responsiveness of your team.
ENTER THE CLOUD. The cloud is not
only a key component in achieving
these objectives but holds the promise
of greater agility at lower cost.
According to The State of the Cloud
Survey from RightScale 30 to 45% of
cloud spend is wasted.
You have already had some success
in moving data to the cloud, working
with cloud providers like Amazon and
Microsoft, often on Dev/Test activities.
At the same time, line of business units
have made their own forays into the
cloud often without your knowledge
or input. Do they always tell you
where they are sending your corporate
data? Parts of your organisation have
stumbled into the cloud with no formal
plan, creating more risk for the business.
This threat continues to expand as
more mission critical applications are
deployed to the cloud. Not only is
critical information fragmented, it’s
now tied to the unique platform of each
cloud provider and managed through
single vendor tools.
How are you to control and
synchronise all your data across these
different environments? With the
average organisation employing
eight clouds today, you have a right
to be concerned. n
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