June 2012
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
9h 15m
English
book
Is Your Company Ready for Cloud: Choosing the Best Cloud Adoption Strategy for Your Business
by Pamela K. Isom, Kerrie Holley
Overview
“This book successfully addresses the approach for
adopting cloud into organizations (small and large), realizing that
every application may not be a fit for a cloud environment. The
writer does an excellent job of integrating cloud into the approach
for an enterprise architecture and drilling down into how to
evaluate cloud in its variety of implementation techniques, along
with the benefits and drawbacks of each.”
— Sue Miller-Sylvia, IBM Fellow and Vice President,
Application Innovation Services, IBM Global Business Services
Make the Right Cloud Adoption and Deployment Decisions for Your
Business
This is the first complete guide to cloud decision making for
senior executives in both technology and non-technology roles.
IBM® Global Business Services® Executive Architect Pamela
K. Isom and IBM Fellow Kerrie Holley present practical business
cases, vignettes, and techniques to help you understand when cloud
investments make sense and when they don’t. You’ll find
decision models that are anchored with practical experiences and
lessons to guide your decision making, best practices for
leveraging investments you’ve already made, and expert
assistance with every aspect of the cloud transition.
Drawing on their extensive experience working with enterprise
clients, Isom and Holley show how to integrate both business and
technical considerations, set the right priorities, and
successfully manage everything from security and performance to
governance. Whatever your company’s size, industry, or
challenges, this book will help you drive maximum business value
from the cloud—on your terms and on your timeline.
Coverage includes
Assessing the business value of a cloud adoption strategy based on 10 specific expectations
Gaining more value by incorporating cloud into enterprise architecture
Implementing cloud when you don’t already have an enterprise architecture
Fully understanding the financial implications of cloud-based strategies and technologies
Incorporating cloud in environments that have already adopted Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Selecting components of your cloud portfolio, including elements of larger outsourced or managed solutions
Governing cloud as part of your overall organizational landscape
Systematically recognizing and mitigating cloud adoption risks, including security, cost, and performance
Planning the transition: retiring legacy applications, transforming business processes, and selecting partners
Anticipating and guiding the use of cloud business patterns, trends, and technologies
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