Learn how to design and deploy a robust IaaS capability. Read On!
CIOs are facing new challenges as cloud adoption becomes a critical imperative for businesses. The early fear of adopting cloud operations has largely disappeared with even traditionally resistant sectors with strict compliance requirements, such as finance, starting to switch to the cloud. Instead of asking if the cloud is safe, the CIO conversation has switched gears to business outcomes and facilitating interaction and communication, both inside and outside the company.
Creating a strategy is essential for any business looking to make the switch to the cloud. By having a clear, unambiguous, and widely-communicated plan in place, you can ensure that all of your teams are on the same page and working towards the same goal.
It's no secret that cloud computing is imperative for organizations of all sizes. However, many companies struggle with creating a cloud strategy that makes sense for their specific needs and goals. Creating a cloud strategy doesn't have to be complicated. Your cloud strategy should be high-level and concise, outlining which technologies you should prioritize and the risks associated with adoption. The most basic decision, usually the starting point in an organization’s journey into and onto the cloud, is to select a model for cloud computing.
Each type of cloud computing model serves a different purpose so your requirements drive this selection. This guidance focuses on the Infrastructure-as-a-Service model (IaaS) of cloud computing. IaaS is an integral and favored cloud computing model in which a third party provider hosts infrastructure components—including servers, storage, and networking hardware—allowing the business to run its online processes and applications “through the cloud.” In doing so, organizations can decrease or even eliminate their reliance on private data centers and, at the same time, take advantage of the cost efficiencies that are often associated with using the cloud.
This e-Book discusses what IaaS is and its place in the cloud computing model. It starts by giving an overview of cloud computing models and then dives into the defining and describing IaaS, its practical application in the enterprise, such as offloading development and testing from the data center to the cloud or using it to host enterprise applications. The book then discusses the critical issues of security and compliance and examines the various ways to get value from the cloud along with a set of capabilities and technologies for cost savings, scale and resilience by demonstrating how you manage your company's IT ecosystem in the cloud, describing the various tools available to you to monitor and manage your applications.
CIOs will learn about the capabilities of IaaS, where best to use and how to efficiently deploy it in their organization.
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