The final video I was able to do while in Toronto was with Dave Frederickson (@FreddyAtHP) and Charlie Atkinson, both leaders within HP Canada. We talked about opportunities for organizations moving to the cloud.
One of the topics we discussed was how organizations are focused on becoming more agile and keeping pace with technology -- taking advantage of the new levels of flexibility available. Dave and Charlie described their perspective of what this can mean to business. With the surging market demands requiring greater flexibility and higher-performance, the drive for cloud can be very compelling. Cloud is less about saving costs and more about tackling markets in new ways or even whole new markets.
One of the aspects of any kind of cloud activity is the need to define a baseline of the current situation of the organization and then define and expand that knowledge into... with definite expectations, so that you can learn from the results. If you don’t have any idea where you’re going, you’ll never know when you get there.
A year or so ago, I worked on coordinating the application panels of the HP cloud discovery workshop and these kinds of workshops can be very useful for organizations determining their needs and expectations.
One of the other items we discussed was the concerns about vendor lock-in. This is an area that IT organizations need to develop a much deeper understanding as they expand their use of the cloud. It also affects how hybrid clouds are used and add value. This is one of the many areas organizations can make mistakes that couse problems over the long haul...
