More pragmatic advice and lesson learned regarding cloud adoption from ServiceMesh
on December 8th, 2011 at 11:48 am EDTWhat are some of the “self-inflicted wounds” that enterprises endure as part of their cloud journey? How many of these pitfalls could have been avoided with better upfront planning and guidance?
During Cloud Expo West 2011, ServiceMesh’s Anthony Skipper covered the operational, governance, and security hurdles large organizations encounter along the road to enterprise cloud adoption. Anthony covered the good, the bad and the ugly of the pre- and post-implementation topics below, and how you can learn from them to gain more rapid business results when adopting cloud:
- Effective ways to address organizational change
- How to deal with enterprise IT complexity
- Optimizing infrastructure design
- Avoiding surprises in cloud vendor management
- Cloud addiction
- Failure to implement policy from the beginning
You can download the complete presentation here:
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly- What Most Early Adopters Encountered in the Cloud Frontier (PDF)
For more information on cloud implementation best practices and enterprise customer lessons learned, contact ServiceMesh for a more detailed conversation.
