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Planning a Small Business Cloud Strategy

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Explore the steps necessary for a successful small business cloud strategy. Learn how to identify your unique business needs and plan around implementation and anticipated cost.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Plan a small business cloud strategy
1. Cloud Computing
  • What is cloud computing?
  • Why is it important to small businesses?
  • The rise of the "born in the cloud" company
2. Case Studies
  • Use case one: Give me SaaS
  • Use case two: Public IaaS, no data center at all
  • Use case three: SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS
  • Use case four: Crossing international boundaries
  • Understanding common patterns
  • Understanding common problems
3. Selecting Technology
  • Public clouds
  • Private clouds
  • Hybrid clouds
  • Multi-clouds
  • Selecting tools
  • Security
  • Governance
  • Linking things together
4. Business Issues
  • How much does it cost?
  • How much do I save?
  • The cost of operations
  • Build a quick and dirty business case
5. Small Business Cloud Planning
  • Understanding your needs
  • Logical cloud architecture
  • Physical cloud architecture
  • Implementation and cost planning
6. Other issues
  • Security
  • Governance
  • Management and monitoring
  • Deployment
7. Deployment and Testing
  • Staged deployment
  • Staged testing
  • Build into DevOps
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

David Linthicum

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