Is your company’s IT governance strategy cloud ready?

There’s another layer of governance needed for multi-cloud environments: cloud management. Organizations with multiple, large or complex investments in public cloud platforms, for example using both Google Cloud and Azure, need effective cloud management processes, tools and resources. Implementing a cloud management platform may seem like a good quick fix, but it’s important to consider what capabilities your organization wants to have on a day-to-day basis.

I urge anyone who’s early into the cloud adoption process to make sure you do the work upfront in designing your governance — it’s your foundation, your landing zone. Be sure you’re comfortable with how you grow inside of the cloud platform(s) that you’re investing in over time, because it costs more to implement governance and controls and remediate challenges later on than it does to do the work upfront.

About the author

Scott Cameron is a senior architect for cloud and data center transformation at Insight Enterprises, a global IT solutions provider.