A guide to improving your enterprise with the cloud

Cloud is a technology that is fundamentally changing the way businesses work. Even with major growth in cloud solutions, many traditional IT providers are finding it difficult to decide exactly what it means to adopt the cloud ... or even what "cloud" truly means to them. The seemingly limitless number of vendors and solutions makes it even harder to pick the right cloud strategy for their business.

The Cloud Adoption Playbook provides a way to sort through the options and make the best cloud decisions. Written by a team of IBM executives, this book defines the cloud, describes a framework for adopting the cloud in businesses large and small, and provides proven approaches for successful cloud adoption. Benefitting from numerous use cases and customer examples, this guide helps you pick the winning plays that will allow your business to take advantage of all the cloud has to offer.

Flip through the pages inside to discover:

• What business drivers are forcing enterprises to the cloud
• What strategic decisions need to be made in cloud adoption
• Culture changes you can expect from cloud adoption
• The architectural decisions driven by the cloud
• Security requirements for the cloud
• Handling changes created by emerging technologies
• A proven methodology for cloud application development
• Service management and operations in the cloud
• The role of governance in cloud adoption

The essential roadmaps for enterprise cloud adoption

As cloud technologies continue to challenge the fundamental understanding of how businesses work, smart companies are moving quickly to adapt to a changing set of rules. Adopting the cloud requires a clear roadmap backed by use cases, grounded in practical real-world experience, to show the routes to successful adoption. The Cloud Adoption Playbook helps business and technology leaders in enterprise organizations sort through the options and make the best choices for accelerating cloud adoption and digital transformation.

Written by a team of IBM technical executives with a wealth of real-world client experience, this book cuts through the hype, answers your questions, and helps you tailor your cloud adoption and digital transformation journey to the needs of your organization. This book will help you:

• Discover how the cloud can fulfill major business needs
• Adopt a standardized Cloud Adoption Framework and understand the key dimensions of cloud adoption and digital transformation
• Learn how cloud adoption impacts culture, architecture, security, and more
• Understand the roles of governance, methodology, and how the cloud impacts key players in your organization.

Providing a collection of winning plays, championship advice, and real-world examples of successful adoption, this playbook is your ultimate resource for making the cloud work. There has never been a better time to adopt the cloud. Cloud solutions are more numerous and accessible than ever before, and evolving technology is making the cloud more reliable, more secure, and more necessary than ever before. Don't let your organization be left behind The Cloud Adoption Playbook gives you the essential guidance you need to make the smart choices that reduce your organizational risk and accelerate your cloud adoption and digital transformation.