IT from the Cloud

Many organizations are seeking to enhance the agility, efficiency, and security of their IT systems by migrating to the cloud.  But organizations that continue to follow traditional approaches to IT or just duplicate their current infrastructure on virtual servers in the cloud will only realize minimal gains.  In order to maximize the benefits of cloud computing, an organization needs to know how to effectively apply the new features and practices made possible by the cloud to their IT and software development processes.  In this blog post, we provide three simple tips to help you maximize the benefits of cloud computing for your organization.  1.  Allow self service resource provisioning Provisioning of computing resources is often a major bottleneck and source of inefficiencies in traditional approaches to IT.  Developers are required to submit tickets and wait on a dedicated infrastructure team to build the resources for them before development can begin.  Cloud computing elimina