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How to source the right cloud vendor?

| nmb@konfitech.com

When you as a business are looking for an improvement in your business, currently it is natural to look towards IT as a place of improvement. For many who are not at all in the cloud or only partly in the cloud as a hybrid user, choosing the right cloud vendor becomes crucial. How do you then avoid the costly mistake of choosing the wrong hyperscaler or cloud provider?

First, one must define what are the desired business outcome, or in other words what is you cloud strategy?

One needs to have a clear understanding of how implementing and migrating to the cloud is going to impact the business and what are the outcomes of that migration. The goal of making a move to the cloud should be to lower costs and experience alignment from IT resources to intentional goals. Commonly cost-effectiveness and flexibility are two great arguments for moving to the cloud with the right cloud vendor.

Therefore, one would need to involve many stakeholders in the process of creating the strategy. One needs a clear understanding of your current business capabilities and operating models in each department. Probe for the right information inside your business to map this when seeking a new cloud vendor.

Here important areas may emerge such as geographical coverage, regulatory concerns, capability requirements for now and the future. Also do not forget the benefits of special incentives and favourable commercialization sourcing the right hyperscaler might provide you. All of these are vital factors when sourcing the new cloud vendor for your tech-stack.

After the discovery phase of your business capabilities and architecture is done, one needs to map both the capabilities and desired outcomes of those capabilities onto a potential cloud vendor. Giving special attention to your business and how it executes today rather than what the cloud provider can do for you.

The idea of moving to the cloud is compelling to many, which is why many have already moved to the cloud without a clear strategy. This has resulted in poor sourcing causing many to replatform or is going to replatform sooner rather than later. Do not fall into the trap of sourcing the wrong IT provider. Seek help from experienced partners such as Konfitech, knowledgeable in choosing the right cloud vendor.

We recommend taking the following steps:

  1. Map out the business architecture and the capabilities today in every department.
  2. Build a cloud strategy involving what desired outcomes will be.
  3. Check for alignment between capabilities, cloud vendor, and desired outcomes

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