In any personal, SME, mid-size and huge enterprises cost plays a huge role in the decision make process. in the case of IT infrastructure cloud provides a wide range of paying options, as it is build on satisfying the customer needs first, this includes guiding and educating on getting value for your money when using their services.
There are a number of key pointers that highlight and shed light on steps to implement in order to grow financial awareness to key stack holders in the business or organization that take part in implementing, adopting and operating day to day tasks on cloud.
Financial implementation awareness
with the establishment of most departments that deal with operations and also to some extend security, the finance sector should also be equipped with equal measure if not more, as it is a core player in the life support for the other departments.
Fit consumer model
There is no one fit for all model for all businesses adopting cloud, as operations varies, size and needs. This factors shape the needs of a business to use tailor made infrastructure resources for instance compute type and size, a company that has memory intensive workload is not like another with general purpose tasks.
Efficiency is key
While having identified your needs, adopting and implementing the cloud resources it is also key to measure its effectiveness based on also cost delivery for example avoiding over provisioning at the expense of cost, this may lead to unsustainability and costly in the long run.
Transparency on expenditure
The cloud offers a breakdown of all the resources used and the total cost incurred when using them, each department should work towards an aware use of resources that will be billed centrally.
It is a collective responsibility for each department to work towards the same goal, and the finance part is not left behind.
conclusion
Few steps and things to be aware are key determiners of the "successful" adoption of the cloud, this does not mean they should be held to the latter but should used as pointers when navigating to the adoption of cloud.
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