3 New Year’s resolutions for the cloud in 2018
I’m one of those people who takes time at the new year to define personal objectives for the forthcoming year, some of which I actually achieve. Enterprise IT should be doing the same thing for cloud computing.
Here are my three suggestions for IT’s cloud resolutions for 2018.
2018 cloud resolution No. 1:
Look at your cloud security approach and technology
When I find issues with enterprise cloud deployments in my consulting work, it’s most often around security. Clients often leave aspects of their cloud deployments unprotected or underprotected, and things that should be encrypted are not, while things that should not be encrypted are.
While I’m not recommending that you gut your cloud security and replace it with what’s cool and new, I am recommending that you take some time to walk through the security solution architecture and ask yourself about where you can improve. Moreover, consider all the security technology in place, what needs to be updated? What should be replaced?
2018 cloud resolution No. 2:
Look at your cloud training plan
There are two categories of cloud training:
- Provider training that’s focused on a specific provider such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, or Google.
- General training that provides a good overview of how to make cloud work in enterprises, and all that is involved with that.
You should have a mix of both, as well as some paths for your staff defined to get the skills of a cloud architect, cloud developer, cloud operations specialist, and cloud devops specialist, just to name a few roles. There should be training paths through both vendor and nonvendor courses to get your staff members the skills they need to perform their duties (which of course must be clearly defined).
2018 cloud resolution No. 3:
Evaluate your databases
Databases are sticky, and once enterprises have used a specific database, they are not likely to change it. Indeed, what many enterprises have done is just rehost their data on public clouds using the same database they used on premises.
Today we have many options in the cloud, including SQL and non-SQL databases. While there are native databases in public clouds such as AWS’s RedShift and DynamoDB, there are many other options from databases providers that support the public cloud and traditional platforms. Are you using the optimal solution?
These are just a few suggestions; I suspect that you can name more. Whatever they are, pick a few and follow up. Have a great new year!
Source: InfoWorld – Cloud Computing
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