DeCember, 2012
Shivani Sharma
Cloud Adoption Lifecycle As a Game Changer
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The Cloud adoption lifecycle involves the following stages:
1) Anticipate
2) Measure
3) Plan
4) Test
5) Establish
6) Strengthen
Progressively more organizations are looking forward to implement cloud and avail benefits like scalability, responsiveness and cost-effectiveness. As this is a major change, organizations have to carefully gauge the impact of the alteration to a cloud environment. This paper can guide an organization through the various stages in embracing the cloud platform; from ‘What’ to ‘What Else’ to make it a game changer for the organization. It lists the lifecycle stages, and how to sync in with the cloud adoption. The paper unfolds all the aspects that how an organization can utilize the knowledge of the Cloud Adoption Lifecycle to relay to the stage where it is currently at and explore the next stages involved.
Today, there is an ever-increasing number of companies exploring and buying Everything-as-a-Service (XaaS) – from applications to computing solutions, storage and networking power from the Cloud. But the reality is Cloud is not applicable in the same way for every organisation. It has become increasingly important for CIOs to plan and set their own Cloud vision and strategy to foster operational excellence and cost efficiencies.
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