Every business decision comes with an element of risk. A consideration of the pros and cons and a plan for how to effectively monitor and adapt to change. Cloud migration is commonplace in the modern business environment. Not only for core operations but across a diverse portfolio of services. We have already discussed in this…
In the space of just a few years, enterprise cloud services have become more prevalent, more embedded in core operations, and more diverse. The initial cloud computing risks of security, privacy, and sovereignty have largely been addressed. Instead, they have been replaced with new challenges related to business value realization as enterprises start measuring the…
More than half of large enterprises, 57 percent, are worried about cloud costs on a daily basis, according to a survey from 451 Research. A whopping 80 percent of these companies thought that poor management of their cloud deployments was proving to be a financial drain. These are not the type of statistics you expect…
In recent EMA research, 89% of survey respondents said they experienced one or more unexpected challenges with their organization’s public cloud. From effective asset intelligence and accountability across hybrid IT and multi-cloud environments to organizational issues and shadow IT (to name a few challenges), there is no doubt that the move to the public cloud…
Current EMA research shows that more than 40% of today’s production application workloads are running in the cloud. The age of hybrid cloud and multi-cloud is here to stay. And yet many IT organizations continue to struggle with their cloud migration. Join us for an on-demand EMA analyst webinar, Cloud Migration Checklist: A Better Way…
This article is part of an ongoing series about the pros and cons of the cloud, cloud migration, cloud costs and cost control. Here we explore the importance of establishing a cost baseline as the first step of any cloud migration project. The basic financial drivers for a cloud migration of an existing business system…
Many organizations are rushing to move their estates to the cloud, expecting major cost savings and other benefits. However, this is a move that requires careful preparation, especially in terms of deep-dive analysis of your existing IT estate and the way you use the assets. If you don’t invest enough time in preparation and planning,…
This series has described how to approach cloud migration and the associated cost management in terms of six essential questions that need to be addressed. In this final post, I would like to tell you a bit about our Asset Vision platform, and the features that make it ideal for supporting cloud migration and management…
As we saw in the previous post about continuing to deliver value, cloud migration is not a one-time project – there are still significant challenges to deal with after you’ve made the move. Above all, it’s important to keep the costs under control. Failure to do so has left many companies disappointed with their cloud…
If you’ve carefully worked through the questions discussed in earlier posts, your company should enjoy a smooth cloud migration. But once you’re successfully running in the cloud, it’s important to keep verifying that value is being delivered as you’re managing your cloud environment. This is mainly a question of revisiting questions 1 and 2 to…
Years ago, when I was a young Sales Manager with Cadence Design Systems we cooked up the idea of subscription software vs. perpetual ownership, this was a way to reduce cost and allow our customers more flexibility. Back in those days, clouds were just puffy white masses of water vapor floating around in the sky….
Welcome back to our blog series about how to plan a cloud migration and optimize the costs. We’re suggesting some questions that companies should ask themselves in order to avoid the pitfalls that can stop you reaping the expected benefits. Remember, a North American study1 by Softchoice found that 57% of IT leaders have exceeded…
