Planning a Small Business Cloud Strategy

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.

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