Commercial-style IT: Emphasize the move to Service Catalogues
Our vision for the private cloud recognizes that the path first and foremost is about transforming and modernizing the datacenter. This involves 4 major steps.
Consolidate
Design consolidated architecture
Reduce risk in migration
Increasing efficiency (smaller footprint, less space and power, better performance).
Virtualize
Transform legacy into virtual
Create virtual compute storage pools – greater agility to optimize utilization.
Reclaim storage
Automate
Implement best practices to align management policies to business requirements
Makes IT more productive, freeing up resources for more strategic tasks.
Self-service
Via a portal or other user facing framework
Be an “as-a-service” organization
Make it easier for stakeholders to get and use the resources they need, and with better performance based on committed SLAs, so they can be more productive.
Make users more accountable through chargeback and showback mechanisms.
Some customers have not yet begun this process. Many have consolidated their infrastructures. Others don’t want the capabilities of a self service right now. And many large enterprises have alreadyRegardless of where they are, and how far they want to go