IDC Whitepaper: Five Steps to Successful Integrated Cloud Management

Although many organizations have started their cloud journey by using software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings or implementing self-serve approaches to virtual server provisioning, a small but rapidly growing group of IT organizations are focused on using cloud to optimize more broadly across application development, infrastructure operations, and day-to-day management processes.

A recent global IDC survey, sponsored by HP, examined the experience of this proactive group of integrated cloud managers. These organizations are actively integrating and automating application development, provisioning, security, and management across public and private cloud resources as well as non-cloud application development and datacenter operations teams.

Their experiences highlights that success depends on cultural transformation as well as integrated and automated management processes and tools. An analysis of the experiences of these early adopters identifies five important steps for successful integrated cloud management. This IDC paper explains these 5 steps and offers recommendations on how-to start your cloud journey.