Planning a cloud IaaS deployment strategy can be a daunting task. Companies spend months and months attempting to understand which applications and workloads can be farmed out to a cloud provider, and one of the largest mistakes in cloud IaaS adoption today is the “all eggs in one basket” deployment plan.You have taken your time, whittled down the list of cloud providers and decided that JoeBobsCloud.com is the right place for you. Great! But here is where you can get into trouble.
The easiest thing for you (the IT manager) to do is find the closest or (*gasp* SINGLE) location in JoeBobsCloud to your location and … release the migration hounds. But such an approach can potentially be problematic. The rush to adopt cloud services could end up putting you and your applications in a less resilient and less available setup than the colocation provider or location you are migrating from!
Cloud IaaS adoption is an IT strategy, and should be treated as such
Take the time to make sure you understand all the resources that your new cloud provider has to offer. Can you put systems in multiple locations? Is this a chance to move some of your content closer to foreign customers? Should you work to make applications globally available?
Most cloud providers today will give you the tools to help make your business applications and workloads better performing and safer from disaster than they have ever been. But they can’t do it for you. Take the time, talk to your cloud provider of choice, and work WITH them to ensure you have developed the right cloud adoption strategy for your business. All too often a hasty IaaS deployment strategy can be a recipe for disaster.
This is your chance to right the wrongs of old school IT thinking, don’t waste it.
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