Infrastructure and operations leaders often struggle to understand the role of cloud computing and to develop strategies that exploit its potential. I&O leaders should complete the prerequisites before making the technology decisions required for successful, service-centered cloud computing strategies.

Read the Gartner report to learn more about key recommendations:

• Identify the cloud-computing-related IT services you will offer or procure.
• Document the internal processes that will be affected by the identified cloud services.
• Map applications and workloads to the associated cloud services.