Chapter 17
Planning Your Cloud Strategy
IN THIS CHAPTER
Defining the starting points
Describing the hybrid cloud’s support of innovation
Defining the optimal customer experience
Optimizing for workloads
Supporting a dynamic life cycle
Assessing costs and benefits
Planning your hybrid strategy is a journey, not a simple set of steps. The right planning strategy is imperative to getting your plan to be operational. So, you need to look at the technical components, the business strategy, and the organizational plan. You have to focus on bringing all constituents to have a common understanding of how the cloud provides an opportunity for success. Remember that cloud computing can offer a dramatic change in the pace and style of computing as well as business strategy. Therefore, although costs will, of course, be imperative, you also need to think about the benefits that may help transform ...
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