With cloud adoption, for our clients, we’ve been very prudent about which aspects of their IT operations should go to the cloud when. We’ve tried to be both expedient and responsible. There are some obstacles to overcome for many enterprises before they can fully exploit the advantages of cloud computing.
Everyone at CSC’s Trusted Cloud Services is excited about all the good things happening lately. The continuing growth of buzz about cloud computing is a sign of healthy conversation. Recently, our global team has been taking part in that conversation, but our UK colleagues have been especially active.
Ron Brown, Technical Director for CSC EMEA North, took part in the BussinessCloud9 Summit on Dec. 4. This panel and webcast was part of a multi-day series of events on cloud that attracted thousands of participants, commenters and listeners across the web. You can follow the thoughts of representatives from Google, Microsoft, Salesforce.com, Netsuite, and more in the replay archived on their site.
Ron Brown, who was instrumental in putting together CSC’s Cloud Adoption Assessment, was also interviewed for a supplement to The Times. The 16-page special section looks at private clouds and asks good questions of some of the people and companies at the forefront of bringing cloud computing to the enterprise. The authors interviewed an incredible number of executives, consultants, and IT architects, and you can see what Ron had to say on pages 7 and 13.
This all comes close on the heels of our announcement that CSC will be helping the UK’s Royal Mail Group take advantage of the cloud. CSC has been providing servics to Royal Mail since 2003, and this new agreement will position Royal Mail Group’s 30,000 employees to reap the benefits of Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS). You can learn more about that project in the CSC news release, or learn more about BPOS at Microsoft.
Based on the demand in the marketplace, we’ve developed an initial assessment that provides a starting point for moving an enterprise into the cloud.
Organizations are attracted to cloud computing by the pricing transparency, the agility it enables, or how collaboration is enhanced by the cloud. However, there are risks in an unknown space and something unfamiliar, especially something as disruptive to business models as cloud computing.
The CSC Cloud Adoption Assessment produces a roadmap into the cloud, taking into account the business strategy, the readiness of an organization and its IT architecture, and the different maturity levels of the relevant cloud offerings in the market. The approximate 3-week consulting period will produce a plan and a high-level benefits statement.
We already have some early adopters engaged, from which we’ll be producing some case studies. I’ll have more to say about this in subsequent videos and blog posts.
If you’d like more information about the Cloud Adoption Assessment, contact us or take a look at the briefing available for download.
Ron Brown is Technical Director of EMEA North, and EMEA Director of Cloud Computing for CSC’s Trusted Cloud Services. Contact him at rbrown48@csc.com.
