Well, with a snappy title like that, I expect I am now all alone in this room. 😉
My cloud research this year will be focused on use cases in two areas: consumption and service. I will delve into the tasks involved, and how commercially available tooling addresses those tasks.
Consumption and Cost Management
- Application cost performance review
- Cost and capacity planning
Service Management
- Service level evaluation and planning
- Availability and fault recovery planning
- Operations Automation
Evaluation Areas:
- Desired outcome of the activity
- Business and infrastructure impact of the activity
- Roles involved
- Tasks involved
- What problems/aspects of the activity are addressed by a vendor solution
- How a given solution contributes to the activity- what it does, how it works
- Overview of tech/architecture/interfaces/data
- Vendor’s target market, pricing, strategy
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