Over the past few decades hardware and software acquisitions have occurred via traditional capital expense cost models. This approach has required organizations to pay large amounts of up-front fees for the use of long-term assets. The return on investment has never proven to be positive for a majority of these capital expenditures. Organizations continue to buy these critical business resources on “trust” that the value and benefit will be realized.
Exploring use of appropriate cloud services for your organization is almost a mandatory IT project these days. The reduction in TCO, the increased flexibility of resources, simplified time-to-market, and the switch from capex to opex are compelling business drivers. But, moving to the cloud is not just about costs savings or efficiency. What about compliance? What about legal and corporate controls?
By their very nature, cloud services are more than likely to be dispersed across a mixed IT landscape and perhaps widely distributed across different cloud technologies and geographies. One of the biggest challenges facing enterprises of all sizes will be “where are all my cloud services and how do I control them against my business requirements?”
