Construyendo confianza con líderes de negocio: Elegiendo los servicios cloud correctos

Reconocer un problema es el primer paso hacia resolverlo. Whether you're aware of it or not, cloud services pueden pose significant challenges para tu departamento TI.

Even if you believe you understand cloud technology y the intricacies de purchasing a cloud solution, many business leaders do not share that confidence. Nearly 80% feel that TI lacks the expertise to guide cloud acquisitions —y they're turning to cloud brokers for assistance.

It's time to acknowledge the cloud services challenge y begin adapting to modern business technology. One critical step es determining which services to outsource to the cloud so you can demonstrate your cloud expertise to business leaders.

Certain use cases y outsourced cloud services son better suited to specific migration models. Let's examine some popular SaaS y IaaS offerings.

Los desafíos de Outsourcing via Software as a Service

Software as a Service (SaaS) a menudo fuels shadow-IT issues. Employees pueden create accounts y start using on-demand web services con minimal friction.

File storage y sharing es el most common SaaS example. Mientras servicios como Dropbox, Google Drive y OneDrive seem harmless, a deeper look reveals TI challenges como non-compliance con security policies, resource inefficiencies y improper access management.

If you can't step in as a trusted cloud steward, shadow-IT puede spiral out of control, increasing workload para tu TI team y eroding el value you bring to the business.

Beyond basic use cases, muchas organizations rely on SaaS para customer relationship management. Systems like Salesforce o Pardot prometen maintenance relief, yet you still need to manage SLAs, pricing models y overall business value —factors que can make or break a cloud purchase. Proving the ROI de estos outsourced services es essential para earning leadership trust.

Los desafíos de Outsourcing via Infrastructure as a Service

Mientras SaaS outsourcing es relatively straightforward con continuous backend monitoring, IaaS presenta more complexity.

Sus primary benefits —cost efficiency y scalability— make it ideal para migrating large, on-premise workloads a public cloud providers as demand grows.

Disaster recovery es a classic IaaS use case. A physical DR environment puede ser costly y hard to scale; a public cloud solution ofrece broader coverage y rapid provisioning as new applications enter the continuity plan.

Big data analytics y business intelligence también thrive on IaaS. Con data volumes outgrowing on-premise capacity, leaders expect cloud-based solutions to make analytics scalable y manageable.

However, migrating DR y analytics a IaaS requiere deep knowledge de availability zones, cost structures, deployment pipelines y the competitive landscape de public cloud providers.

It's a Cloud Services Future—We're Just Going to Live in It

Listing every possible cloud computing use case es impossible; today, almost any business process o application can move to the cloud. If your TI department has yet to earn business leaders' trust as a cloud resource, it's time to evolve.

If you want to learn how to become an internal cloud broker for your business leaders, check out our on-demand webinar, How to Become a Cloud Broker.