Enterprise, meet cloud Mapping a safe passage to enterprise cloud adoption

Phil Wainewright
Procullux Ventures.

Many enterprise IT executives are wondering how they can bring the economic and practical advantages of cloud computing – the rapid deployment, payperuse pricing, scalable capacity ondemand – to those more businesscritical systems, yet without compromising their security, reliability and governance. This paper maps out how to ensure safe passage, trust and confidence when migrating such valuable IT assets to the cloud.

Actual public clouds are not enterprise-friendly: few providers are prepared to invest in meeting the needs and existing realities of enterprise IT.
Virtual private networking makes it possible to establish a logical domain within the public cloud with controlled exposure to the open cloud. This allows an enterprise to choose how much or how little it engages with the cloud, without restricting future access to the cloud environment.
But achieving fine-grained control over that access and exposure depends on the sophistication of the provider’s infrastructure. It must provide the accountability, visibility and governance that enterprise IT requires of any computing assets under ist management. Only then can the enterprise plan the integration, migration and oversight of cloud-based IT assets with the same level of confidence and trust it has today in its own inhouse infrastructure. With the right foundations and guarantees in place, cloud computing will at last become an accepted part of the enterprise IT landscape.

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Enterprise, meet cloud. Mapping a safe passage to enterprise cloud adoption