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Are You Ready for
Cloud Computing?
The IT organizations that will be
most successful in transitioning to
the cloud will be those that approach
it strategically and methodically. As
you think about moving one or more
workloads to an internal or external
cloud infrastructure, have you
Analyzed your portfolio and
prioritized the applications that
would benefit most from a cloud
computing approach?
Achieved 100 percent
virtualization of the workloads you
are targeting for cloud, including
virtualizing infrastructure (servers,
storage, network)?
Considered or defined the
standard services you want
to offer, with the associated
service levels?
Outlined, and in some cases
redefined, security protocols and
compliance requirements?
Optimized your architecture,
infrastructure and organizational
procedures and policies, including
governance, to support a service
consumption model?
Considered how to change your
approach to capacity planning,
given you will be using a shared
pool of managed resources and
that end users will have direct
access to system resources?
Discussed how you will perform
chargeback or showback to users
and the business?
Considered the change
management in IT, lines of
business, procurement and more
that will be required to support
the move to cloud computing,
including changes in roles,
education, training and
certification procedures?
Whether you have considered none,
accomplished some or completed all
of the items on this list, VMware has
the solutions and experts to assist
you in developing and implementing
a strategy that is right for you and
your organization.
Australian Bureau
of Statistics
“We stopped talking in
the old way about servers
and started talking about
allocation of resources
to their work; for the
same price as what we’re
paying today, you can have
unlimited access. Clients
don’t even worry about the
IT side anymore. It’s done
for them.”
Tony Marion,
Director, Infrastructure,
Australian Bureau of Statistics
