Is your company being dragged - kicking & screaming - to the Cloud?
Yep, I know what that's like. It's brutal. How hard does it have to be to get people to see the whole SAAS, managed-services move the industry has been embracing for well over a decade?? For customers it's all about shrinking & consolidating resources. Wake up people!!
If you need a primer on Cloud Computing, try this: https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2372163,00.asp
And right behind Cloud Computing is the Software-defined Network, barreling down the track like freight-train without a conductor at break-neck speed . Time to hop-on my Hobo friends.
What an enormous competitive advantage it is to be able to offer cloud subscriptions, on-premise subscriptions as well as the decades-old stand-by, the perpetual license. Add managed services, with eyes-on-scope in different formats, providing critical skill-sets not in a customer's wheelhouse and you've really got something. Flexibility is the name of the game. Cloud Computing is the hottest ticket in town and it's not going away anytime soon.
And now it appears even Microsoft "gets it" as it moves it's Azure cloud to the Linux platform. Wow. It's about time. Can I get an "Amen"??? Here's why: https://www.zdnet.com/article/it-runs-on-the-cloud-and-the-cloud-runs-on-linux-any-questions/