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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO

IT leaders at the 60-year-old fleet management firm determined that cloud could support its rapid growth without the challenges of maintaining data centers. If the answer is no,” Upchurch says, “you may just be renting someone else’s data center.” How will we balance security, agility, and usability?

Strategy 363
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Kentik’s Journey to Deliver the First Cloud Network Observability Product

Kentik

And the cloud vendorsmanagement interfaces don’t make it easy to do simple things like figuring out traffic paths or visualizing traffic going over a VPN. Consider the edge components of an on-prem network: the expensive routers, switches, and firewalls. In short, running cloud networks is slowing network teams down.

Network 52