I found a paper I’d written as part of a webinar on cloud last year. It’s a quick overview intro and overview for the “IT Management” crowd:<\/p>\n
\nThis brief paper provides a working definition of “cloud computing” and then discusses three areas that IT organizations must target for change to gain the full benefits of cloud computing:<\/p>\n
IT management at large scale, without IT intervention – the efficiency of a cloud rests on operating at large scale and especially with as little human intervention as possible.<\/li>\n Configurations Management & Automation – The configuration and provisioning needs of the cloud must be highly automated and often assume less than perfect process and diagnostics.<\/li>\n Delivering Frequent Functionality – Taking advantage of the cloud depends on delivering applications in a rapid, Agile fashion, which depends on automation being an enabler instead of yet another moving part to wrestle with.<\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n