The various Cloud routes
A massive Cloud migration is underway. The ease of consumption, immense scalability, and pay-as-you-go model make the Cloud the way to go for many organizations. But just as all roads lead to Rome, there are also multiple paths to the Cloud. What are these paths, what are the differences between them, and how do organizations know which one is right for them? Larik-Jan Verschuren, CTO of Fundaments, and Paul Bootsma, Senior Consultant at Dell Technologies, answer these questions in this white paper on Cloud routes.
Table of contents
- Introduction
- Cloud migration: trends and challenges
- Cloud definitions: different types of Clouds
- Cloud routes: different paths to the Cloud
- Cloud landscape
- A look at practice
- Cloud migration: trends and challenges
1. Cloud migration: the trend and the challenges
Why is such a major Cloud migration taking place? Larik-Jan Verschuren, CTO of Fundaments: “The explanation for this lies primarily in convenience. IT infrastructure has become a necessary commodity. Everyone needs it, but they don't want to have to worry about it. How easy is it, then, to source this from a Cloud provider, such as a hyperscaler or a Private Cloud provider like Fundaments? In addition, the consumption model is a key factor in the Cloud's popularity: OPEX costs fit most business operations much better than CAPEX models, which require upfront investment in hardware. If you can easily source services and pay for what you use, as you can with the Cloud, then all the barriers are essentially removed. Furthermore, you often see that the underlying infrastructure no longer provides a competitive advantage. It must, of course, be reliable and always available, but it is the application being used that creates the real value.”
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