9 ‘Worst Practices’ To Avoid With Cloud Computing

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Joe McKendrick.

Cloud computing represents one of those once-in-a-generation shifts that not only changes the way we think about managing information, but also the way we design and run businesses. Sometimes, people get a little too excited about all the possibilities, however, and jump in with both feet without thinking things through.

For that reason, Mike Kavis, a seasoned chief technology officer and IT architect, urges greater care when rushing into the cloud space. That’s the theme of his latest book, titled Architecting the Cloud: Design Decisions for Cloud Computing Service Models, which explores the key steps both IT and business leaders need to take as they enter the cloud world. (Kavis provided me the opportunity to preview the book a few weeks back, and my endorsement appears on the back cover.) He identifies some of the "worst practices" he has seen that tend to make cloud projects go awry:…

Worst practice #1) Migrating applications to the cloud solely to drive down costs: "The reality is usually the complete opposite," says Kavis. "In fact, very few applications are good candidates to move to the cloud in their current architecture". Most legacy architectures were never intended to be built in a manner where the system automatically scales as the number of transactions increases." If someone is hoping to simply reduce the costs of managing current applications, they should consider moving their applications to a managed hosting provider, Kavis says…

Read more from the source @ http://www.forbes.com/sites/joemckendrick/2014/01/29/9-worst-practices-to-avoid-with-cloud-computing/

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