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Chapter 4: Building an Enterprise Cloud
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The problem is that this kind of support is expensive and inefficient. All you’re doing is patching a symptom rather than
addressing a root cause.
Rather than attempt to build structures around differe nt
application and infrastructure support models, a more sensible plan is to deploy infrastructure that can support both
modes of support.
That’s exactly what you get with an enterprise cloud deployment. You gain an infrastructure model that can support
legacy applications as well as modern apps.
Preparing Your People
Compared to dealing with people, the technology is easy!
However, you can’t ignore the need to ensure that your
people are prepared for the changes that you need to make to
your IT organization and to your infrastructure.
For a long time, businesses have had to hire specialists for
each area of the IT infrastructure. As organizations move into
the brave new world, IT seems to need an ever‐increasing
number of specialists to keep the burgeoning set of resources
operational.
Or not.
Hyperconverged infrastructure driven enterprise cloud systems don’t require specialists to operate. You don’t need to
hire expensive storage administrators, virtualization administrators, and systems administrators to maintain your legacy
environment. You don’t need to hire cloud experts to deal
with your public cloud systems.
With an enterprise cloud foundation, you need IT pros who
have a breadth of knowledge, though they don’t require massive depth. These IT generalists are the future of datacenter
support. They’ll be in the forefront as organizations seek to
simplify a complex morass of technology in the datacenter.
At first, this change can be threatening to existing staff, particularly those who define themselves based on their subject
matter expertise. Because every area is still represented in
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