The steps most organisations will need to undertake to get to an initially private or hybrid clouds, and potentially public cloud hosting in future, are as follows:
- Understand what services your business requires from your IT function. Define your Service Catalogue based on this.
- Review the required service levels needed for each of the defined services, include resilience and data security.
- Define and agree the services you want to provide internally and those that can be hosted or provided by a third party.
- Measure the current resources you require to deliver the internally provided services to the require service levels.
- Review your current infrastructure and look for all opportunities to simplify, rationalize and standardize what you support and how you manage it.
- Virtualize every element you have not already done so where it is technically and commercially appropriate to do so; this includes desktops.
- Implement a common user portal where all users access all services whether provided internally or by a third party.
- Refine and improve your operational processes to take advantage of the new environment.
- Implement suitable internal charging mechanisms so all users/departments can understand the costs of the services they are using.
- Review cost of internal service provision against what commercial cloud providers can offer for the same level of service.
- Monitor every service provided whether in house delivered or externally to ensure it meets agreed service levels.
Although organizations are excited about using cloud technologies to bring in IT spend efficiency in the organization, they are still apprehensive about data security when migrating to the public cloud, but while Private clouds are really secure, they are also expensive. Tier 4 certified Data centers offers a solutions that cuts mid-way.
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