Key Knowledge and Business Impact you acquire through Cloud Infrastructure and Services

These skills can be utilized to impact business decisions in variety of ways….

Business Impact:

Motivate business stakeholders and IT teams alike. Needs and benefits of cloud computing must be clear and consistent to anyone involved.

Establish a common view on the virtualization and cloud transformation roadmap enables various IT functional teams to share a common reference in terms of transformation phase and dependencies. 

Effective differentiation of infrastructure components leads to clear segmentation of virtualization responsibility and reduces confusion at a later phase of the infrastructure transformation.

Encourages the consideration of pervasive virtualization involving Servers, Storage, Networking, and other infrastructure components.

Business continuity enables reduction in downtime and performance impact on business applications

Depending on the business requirement, IT teams must propose a balanced approach in terms of various deployment models (private, public and hybrid).

Business/IT requirements differ by company and lines-of-business. Cloud Services can be tailored per requirement as long as the IT department can help define and manage the required services (SaaS, PaaS and Iaas).

Essential for Cloud Architects and anyone involved in planning and implementing IT-as-a-Service. Establishes common language within the team to correlate services to required infrastructure.

Security is a prominent concern in IT overall. However, cloud computing introduces unique challenges that need to be identified and addressed.

Establish and share migration strategy so the IT team can seamlessly migrate from classic to virtualize to cloud environment with little to no disruption to the business and customers.