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Cloud Computing - overcoming the key inhibitors (pdf)

NCC Guidelines - Volume 1 - Number 2

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The drive towards Cloud Computing within an organisation typically comes from the business, not its IT department. The irony is that small innovative businesses and new start-ups see the cloud as their key enabler, providing off-the-peg services that rival those of larger competitors but avoid the need to build costly IT infrastructures. The cloud effectively lowers competitive barriers. It is no surprise then that start-ups are the keenest adopters of cloud services. Larger enterprises and more established IT departments and IT organisations are already seemingly buried in complexity and see the cloud as a threat to their role as gatekeeper to IT services, as well as introducing a raft of technical issues that IT departments would rather not deal with.

However, once you start exploring the workings of the cloud and examining its fit with your organisation’s requirements and existing infrastructure, the range of options and potential problems seems to grow exponentially.

These Guidelines define cloud the way a lay person might, then they drill down into the issues associated with delivering that vision and satisfying expectations. They highlight the most common business and technical issues that may slow or even stop take up of cloud services and discusses ways of addressing them, including case study examples of how real companies have been tackling those same issues. They provide a view of what is actually happening by examining the business drivers for adopting cloud. Additionally they take a detailed look at some of the inhibitors to adopting cloud, the challenges that it brings and how they can be overcome.

As there are many interdependent business, operational and technical dimensions to these inhibitors, the Guidelines provide a framework for considering them to help guide your cloud implementation.

Overall, the Guidelines will help you assess your journey to the cloud and will help you identify where cloud services might fit with your organisation and how to deploy them in a way that satisfies your business drivers, your security and information governance concerns.

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