Cloud Transition Challenges: Getting a Grip on the IT Future
22.05.12
Every day at least 50 whitepapers, 10 ads and untold emails proclaim that moving to the cloud will solve all your IT problems. Once everything is virtualized, you’ll have no physical equipment to worry about, and the cloud will do everything and manage itself! Of course, this is not exactly the case. What’s worse is even though you know better, there’s a good chance your boss or the hungry-for- IT -as-an-infrastructure crowd in your organization thinks these things are really true, and the impatient foot-stomping sounds of “is it done yet?” are reverberating through the halls by day and in your head by night.
The promise of the cloud certainly offers many potential advantages. It can provide greater resource efficiency, power savings, real estate benefits and most of all it can save a tremendous amount of money. If the IT infrastructure in an organization is not also managed through the methodical application of best service management practices, however, migration to the cloud will both increase IT overhead as well as headaches.
Source: The Data Center Journal (blog)