An IT organization has hired you as a cloud architect to assist them in planning for cloud services. Your first goal is to help the IT organization categorize existing services against service characteristics. You have provided a table that shows common service characteristics and their attributes for considerations, benefits, and trade-offs.The following attributes from the table have been identified:✑ Consideration: bundling services increases complexity✑ Benefit: replaceable components, improved recovery from failure✑ Trade off: very finite capabilityWhat characteristics correspond to the identified attributes?
In addition to the service template, what other information do you need to create a standardized service offering?
An appliances manufacturing company that has been in business for many decades is concerned about the slowing growth in their business. They feel that this is mainly due to not being able to retain customers.Which industry force and related technology need might be impacting this?
An IT organization for a leading apparel retailer has a relatively small budget to deliver IT services. They are functioning in a legacy operating model and face typical challenges of up-front costs, underutilized resources, and low productivity.What is the most important financial goal for them in offering cloud services?
An organization runs as Internet-based software service. To remain competitive with newcomers to the same market, the organization is transitioning from their traditional annual software release model on a monolithic stack to a quarterly minimum release model using cloud.To achieve this goal, in what technologies should the organization invest?
A company that provides cloud services has operation processes in place for service delivery. The following information is desired:✑ Measure consumption against available resources✑ Track usage thresholds✑ Produce usage trending reportsWhat type of process would provide this information?
