Overcoming Cloud Adoption Hurdles

Studies have found that more than 90 percent of organizations are already running cloud applications, or in the least they are experimenting with cloud adoption. For 82 percent of these companies, a hybrid cloud strategy is followed. Regardless of the cloud adoption methods you are implementing, it is imperative that you create an adoption roadmap to guide you through the process. Without proper execution, you’ll end up with cloud processes that don’t effectively meet your specific cloud computing needs.

There are multiple projects that have to be completed during the cloud adoption process. A roadmap provides you with a way to perform these projects in a parallel manner. Projects that must take priority during the adoption process relate to:

  • Cloud architecture
  • Cloud infrastructure
  • Cloud governance
  • Risk
  • Compliance processes
  • Security policies

When priority is taken in accordance to the above stated components, challenges and cloud adoption hurdles can be avoided. For instance, many companies find that hosting their own servers becomes a costly task to maintain. And even more of a challenge is that their IT departments don’t know how to properly work with today’s cloud computing technologies. Defined policies must always be created as there is no one-size-fits-all cloud adoption strategy.

It’s also important that load balancing and security measures be maintained across the entire infrastructure, which becomes more and more complicated as more applications are added to the cloud. With appropriate components integrated with each provision and orchestration engine, though, it becomes possible to initiate the provision and decommission processes of each application instance.

Lastly, it’s pertinent that companies overcome operational inconsistencies during the cloud adoption process. Not only does operational downtime of access to the cloud lead to compliance and security risks, but it also decreases productivity levels. To overcome this problem, a virtualized infrastructure should be developed, which allows it to become service-enabled.