Understanding the Best Practices

Some of the best practices of cloud implementation are as follows:

Best Practice #1

Choose the right cloud service provider

With the checklist outlined in the first section of this chapter, making the right vendor choice becomes easy for any organisation. Assess their availability, performance and security measures well before you start working with them, and focus on crafting a foolproof SLA.

Best Practice #2

Adopt a phased-in approach

While moving to the cloud, organisations literally share their right of control over their data with the cloud vendors. While this may be a difficult decision to make, using the phased-in approach can reduce the mental stress caused due to physical relocation of data. In this approach, the organisation moves data to the cloud only in parts rather than putting the whole thing into the cloud.

Best Practice #3

Leverage the goodness of the cloud with creativity

Cloud offers an unprecedented level of flexibility and scalability to enterprises. IT managers and administrators must leverage the power of cloud creatively to derive the best benefits from the cloud investment.

Best Practice #4

Audit to ensure better security in the cloud

Regular assessment of problems, compliance of policies set earlier and identification of required upgrades must be performed to ensure the highest level of security for the cloud system. Audit tools are available to perform these functions and the right ones must be adopted by the organisation.

Best Practice #5

Keep data closer to lower latency and costs

Placing data as close as possible to the compute and processing resource reduces latency. Additionally, this practice also reduces the cost of shipping data as organisations pay for the bandwidth used in the cloud.