Cloud Strategy and Adoption

How Can Your Organization Benefit from Cloud Adoption?

It is crucial to understand some of the benefits of cloud adoption.

• Reduced time-to-market - Cloud helps your business to make prototypes of, test and build apps without worrying about underlying hardware resources. You can use cloud resources when you need them, and when you don't need them, you can just turn them off. It is much simpler and more cost-effective than purchasing your own hardware.
• Increased competitiveness - Cloud adoption helps your business to focus on your primary business instead of purchasing, staffing, securing and maintaining on-premise systems.
• Improved security - One of the areas, in which businesses see a big difference when adopting cloud, is improved security level. Cloud data centres have security mechanisms (physical and digital) that would be too costly for SMB businesses to implement for on-premise systems.
• Cost reduction - By using cloud resources when you need them instead of purchasing hardware, you can control your costs and reduce the risk of failed investment. Likewise, you can benefit by not having dedicated IT support staff.

Assessment of Company's IT for Cloud Adoption

When adopting new technologies, it is very important to assess company's "readiness" for the adoption.

Cloud adoption assessment includes:

• Continuity - Does your company have continuity and performance planning that make distinction between critical systems and services with RPO (Recovery Point Objective) and RTO (Restore Time Objective)?
• Security - Does your company have security practices that ensure proper control for your critical data?
• SLA - Does your company have specific applications and services that have Availability and Restore Time targets?
• Identity management - Does your company have established identity management and integrated application access management processes?