Explore the steps necessary for a successful small business cloud strategy. Learn how to identify your unique business needs and plan around implementation and anticipated cost.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Plan a small business cloud strategy
- What is cloud computing?
- Why is it important to small businesses?
- The rise of the "born in the cloud" company
- Use case one: Give me SaaS
- Use case two: Public IaaS, no data center at all
- Use case three: SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS
- Use case four: Crossing international boundaries
- Understanding common patterns
- Understanding common problems
- Public clouds
- Private clouds
- Hybrid clouds
- Multi-clouds
- Selecting tools
- Security
- Governance
- Linking things together
- How much does it cost?
- How much do I save?
- The cost of operations
- Build a quick and dirty business case
- Understanding your needs
- Logical cloud architecture
- Physical cloud architecture
- Implementation and cost planning
- Security
- Governance
- Management and monitoring
- Deployment
- Staged deployment
- Staged testing
- Build into DevOps
- Next steps
Taught by
David Linthicum
