Adopting Cloud Computing

Adopting Cloud Computing

1. Data Regulations

   • Data protection act so that the company does not face legal issues about missuing the customers data so they have to remember to make sure the information is safe.

2. Costs

   • The company has to consider the costs of moving to cloud computing and they must see if they need to adapt in order to fit the cloud computing structure.

3. Flexability and adaptibility

   • When adopting cloud computing you have to consider the flexibility and adaptibility in order to be preapered to change the way you operate in some departments in order to adopt to the new cloud computing

4. Importance of data encryption

   • Encryption is very important when moving to cloud computing as you have to make sure that the customers data is secure so that you do not violate the data missue act.

5. Data Location

   • It is very important to know where the data will reside as it needs to be in a very safe location as if the data is lost it will be very had to recover the data and all the information about the customers could be lost.

6. People/Skills

   • most on-premise applications or technologies have been around for 10-20 years and skills applicable to them are in a mature stage of their lifecycle. Availability or mindset on what it entails is either in-house or in the job markets.

7. Licensing

   • Is the application licensed per VM, per core, or for total infrastructure footprint? This can have massive cost implications. If the licensing model requires that all available resources be taken into account even if not allocated to the client, licensing costs will increase if migrated to a public-cloud platform. Similarly, if the application licensing is based per core and the cloud provider does not offer the ability to configure your cloud environment per core, this will have an adverse impact on your licensing cost.