Outsource your on-prem/private or public cloud?
Can it make sense?
The CIA and Amazon seem to think so.
It seems that you could engage a cloud partner to build and operate a private cloud IaaS/PaaS in your chosen data facility!
Why wrangle with an on-premise private cloud solution brandishing a raft of security, automation and orchestration tools gathered from an expensive, protracted and fraught internal implementation?
Why wrestle with the organisational and cultural change required to support a private on-premise cloud initiative?
Why invest big dollars in another technology solution that may be outdated in six months as the landscape rapidly changes?
Consider outsourcing your on-premises or private cloud to a private cloud vendor. It buy CBD products have a number of significant benefits:
1 Speed to market:
Readily available skill and expertise to deploy infrastructure and platform = reduced skill, organisational, cultural and headcount considerations.
2 Reduced support complexity.
3 Improved hybrid capability (depending upon your choice of vendor)
4 Addresses latency, information security, regulatory and compliance issues.
5 Faster ROI
Quicker onboarding of business with a mature solution.
Focus on developing the Devops capability to drive value.
6 The chance to address organisational change once the the cloud solution evolves and the impact of cloud is better understood.
There are other, important benefits such as the perception of IT as a leader, genuine enabler and business partner and organisational career path opportunities.
This is a business opportunity for the cloud provider market. It may be a game changer in the race to the private cloud especially for on-premise implementations.
Are you on board?