What is a Cloud Strategy and why do you need one?

You hear the term ‘cloud’ all the time… You know it might help you solve some of your IT problems… But your IT team are busy firefighting your immediate problems and you’re worried that introducing cloud computing will be a stretch too far. Perhaps you’re already convinced that moving to the Cloud will enable your team to focus on more strategic business problems like being able to forecast accurately through good data management or digitising and automating repeating business processes. However, you need to know what it will cost to migrate to cloud and run your application estate in the Cloud.

A cloud strategy, like any business strategy, is a plan designed to both define and set out how you will achieve business objectives and goals with specific regards to the cloud. Enterprises and organisations are slowly making the transition from on-premises data centres to the cloud. This is due to the ever-changing technological developments, digital transformations and needs of the new-tech-generation.

Implementing a cloud strategy will provide you with a strategic guide and understanding of the true transformational value of this technological move. Providing your organisation with a clear foundation to your cloud adoption journey, ultimately enabling you to accelerate and achieve your desired business goals.

To successfully make the transition to cloud and present the proposed strategy to your organisation, you will need to educate your board of directors, key stakeholders and team members. This is where a Cloud Strategy comes into play.

Through the vast analyses and assessments conducted, valuable insight can be provided and shared, presenting why investment into the cloud will be worthwhile – this includes how the cloud can provide you and your organisation with innovation, agility and most importantly, speed.

So, what is included in a comprehensive full agnostic Cloud Strategy? Lets take a look below!