It seems like these days most organizations are interested in jumping onto the Cloud Computing bandwagon in one way or another. While there are many reasons why organizations want to move to the Cloud, I believe that optimization of business and technology processes should strongly be considered Pre-Cloud adoption. Additionally, organizations need to develop strong Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to measure against the performance of a Cloud vendor and take into consideration the consequences if the KPIs and SLAs are not met. Thus, the thought of improving your organization and inspiration from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet led me to write the following:
To the Cloud or not to the Cloud, that is the question:
Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer at the hands of IT
The processes and systems of extreme complexity
Or to take the decision to outsource against a sea of issues
And by opposing end them: to completely, to partially
No more; and by partially, to say we end
The headache, and the thousand business challenges
That implementation is heir to? ‘tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To completely to partially,
To partially, perchance to dream; aye, there’s the rub,
For completely what new issues may arise
When the organization has shuffled off this essential support,
Must give us pause. There’s the respect
That makes calamity of a vendor’s contract;
For who would bear the disruptions and problems of time,
Is the management wrong, the proud man’s contumely,
The pangs of despised mind, the compliance delay,
The insolence of office and the rejection
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his demise make
With outdated processes? Who would governance bear,
To complain and sweat under sub-standard operations,
But that the dread of something after completely,
The undiscovered lessons learned, from whose goal
No professional return, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those problems we have,
Than ask to other that we know not of.
The conscience does make ignorant of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o’er, with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pitch and moment,
With this regard their thoughts turn awry,
And lose the name of action. Soft you now,
The fair (insert company name here), in thy orisons
Be all my decisions remembered.
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