Cloud Strategy: Some Good Tactics to Implement

by Frank Teti

It appears lately that all business consulting has something to do with cloud computing. For instance, an organization I am currently working with has a mandate in place requiring all forward-engineering projects to be developed using a virtualized cloud environment. This effort is, in this organization's "corporate mind's eye," a way to prepare it to move production applications into the cloud, which is something it has not previously done. The company believes that this tactic will ensure that cloud architects are competent at administering applications hosted in the cloud, since code development within the cloud is relatively transparent from a developer's perspective.