Hybrid Cloud For Dummies

Supporting a Dynamic Lifecycle

As your cloud computing strategy emerges, you will begin to understand some important differences between the old way of operating and the cloud computing style. In traditional computing environments, it’s assumed that different organizations inside and outside of IT will select numerous different tools and technologies to support any given IT initiative. IT then has to do a lot of the hard work of making sure all these disconnected components can communicate or connect to each other so that they act as though they were a single unified environment.

Accomplishing this task has never been easy, but the consequences of failures have become more extreme. For example, several different systems may depend on database configurations, and IT must make sure all of the correct changes are made across the IT operations. If someone forgets to make a change based on the implementation of a new version of a database or tool, the consequences can be serious. Systems can stop working, and customers can be seriously affected.