Full Contact Cloud Computing: A Step-by-Step Guide For Transitioning Your Enterprise to The Cloud provides the key information that enterprise IT managers and executives need to understand before moving to the cloud. This comprehensive, action-oriented resource provides both strategic guidance and industry research to enlighten IT stakeholders on the benefits of cloud computing and provide a plan of action for leveraging the cloud to achieve operational success the first time.

Whether migrating an entire enterprise or merely moving more problematic, resource-intensive IT silos to a cloud platform, enterprises can realize noteworthy efficiencies that streamline technology and transform IT departments from cost centers to service centers. This book will show you how to do it, and includes:

• Complete, step-by-step processes and best practices for moving inefficient "as is" IT silos to leaner cloud implementations



• Clearly-defined measures for moving an entire enterprise, or critical problem domains, to cloud-based platforms



• A methodology for creating a clear cloud strategy and details on properly executing that strategy



• Strategic guidance on developing new applications in a cloud environment and details on defining the processes and artifacts for new cloud applications

Enterprise executives and IT managers who do not get up to speed with the quickly-emerging cloud computing space may just be setting their organizations up for failure. Full Contact Cloud Computing provides the step-by-step guide to serve as the enterprise playbook on cloud computing.