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I see a lot of cloud computing projects fail in that they do not bring the promised ROI. In my book, if a project cannot live up to the projected ROI, it has failed. There are three common cloud mistakes that lead to such ROI failure, each of which you can easily avoid.
Mistake 3: You don’t analyze the cost of operations
Guess what? You can actually spend more money running your workloads in the public cloud than in your own data center. Why? Because you don’t have a clue as to what running specific workloads in the public cloud will cost you during operations.
What’s needed are cost-monitoring and analytics systems to understand what you’ll spend and when you’ll spend it during operations. These tools are part of an overall governance strategy and systems you also need to have. (Many businesses don’t bother.) You also need to keep tabs on the operational costs in the cloud after you deploy, because they might go up and change your ROI.
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