Cloud Adoption A Modern Approach

Todays Information Technology world is cloud-centric. Companies are intrigued to migrate their workload private cloud from on-premise Datacenter to Public cloud to take advantage of the latest innovations. It drives the business growth and competitiveness of the organization. At the same time, it is important for Enterprise Architects to understand the drawbacks and challenges to migrate the workload to Cloud. This paper aims to identify the key factors to migrate the workload to the cloud. It also helps an organization to identify the candidate for cloud migration. An impulsive decision to move to the Cloud may be detrimental to an organization. Also, I will discuss one case study to see the benefits and disadvantages of cloud migration. This will help the organization to maximize its ROI

Military Breaking Boundaries Implementing Third-Party Cloud Computing Practices for Data Storage

Senior Information Technology (IT) military leadership cannot currently implement, maintain, and administer cloud data storage without the direct support of third-party vendors. This study explicitly impacts cloud practitioners, engineers, and architects requiring a most sophisticated and streamlined ability to safehouse invaluable data using third-party data storage. Grounded in the theory of planned behavior, the purpose of this qualitative single case study was to investigate strategies military leadership uses to implement third-party cloud computing for data storage. The participants (n = 22) consisted of cloud administrators, engineers, and architects within a sizeable midwestern city with a minimum of 3 years of cloud computing knowledge and 5 years of total IT experience. Data collection included semistructured interviews using Skype, face-to-face, and telephone interviews, and internal and external organizational documents (n = 17). Four themes were identified through thematic analysis: work relationships amongst AWS vendors and military technicians, the strength of newly created security practices, all training/learning curves are considered, and continuous safety and improvement. It is recommended that both AWS and military technicians continue to work together, promoting safety and security. The implications for positive social change include the potential for job creation and enhancing the community economically