Modern cloud is all about how easy it is to buy, provision, manage & run at a level where shared, but cloud computing is obviously a very “modern” iteration of technology. It has taken our previous notion of the computer that stands on our desk, on the company server, or in the IT department’s central guts and placed some or all of that power in a cloud service provider datacenter to be operated, managed, secured, maintained and updated remotely.
Why is the use of the use of shared standard services so important? Because cloud computing is meant to be a macroeconomic entity i.e. it is large enough to be, it is broad and wide enough to be hyper-scale and it is expansive enough to be inherently enterprise-scale. That means we should be looking for ways to find standardized elements of operations across the cloud stack that we can coalesce, refine and repeat.
“Organizations who have done the right things and achieved high cloud maturity are realizing benefits including increased productivity, stronger security, and reduced cloud costs. We’ve seen that the path to cloud maturity lies with platform teams and gaining control over their cloud estate with infrastructure and security lifecycle management,” said Liese.