Avoid culture shock in your next cloud computing project

June 30, 2015 Off By David
Object Storage

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Kristen Knapp.

Before moving to the cloud, enterprises face a long to-do list of technical tasks, ranging from application redesign to defining security requirements. The biggest challenge with a cloud computing project, however, lies not with the technology itself, but in the massive cultural shift it requires of an organization.

"The technical [cloud] solutions are usually not that hard," said Odd Waller, manager of application hosting and service design at Volvo IT, the IT arm of Swedish manufacturing giant Volvo Group, during the Red Hat Summit last week. "But to get the whole company moving in that direction — getting 8,000 people to think in a way they haven’t thought before — that’s been the real work."…

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