Cloud, and what's next?

When I arrived Switzerland and went to some social activities to meet locals, most people including who work within IT need an explanation what is cloud and why. It is still a lot of misconceptions, but I think I managed to explain why after a while. This morning, a friend from far north asked me, is the cloud the next thing? I told him, cloud is actually now. Future is something else.

Look around all services, Something as-a-Service is literally everywhere. It is hard to say "I am not using any cloud services". Enterprises also start to catch up. Adoption is getting higher/faster than ever, that's why it is extremely hard to find skilled resources.

The road to the cloud can be complex, here are some strategical hints.

Seven perspectives to look over

• Business Perspective
• Platform Perspective
• Maturity Perspective
• People Perspective
• Process Perspective
• Operations Perspective
• Security Perspective