IBM Cloud A Complete Guide - 2021 Edition

Are there rules when designing cloud services or creating service using cloud platform?

Does your organization use service contract or service level agreement for cloud services?

How can cloud computing services be efficiently classified and organized in a taxonomy?

How does virtualization create a more agile and responsive cloud computing infrastructure?

How well will cloud based information models integrate with corporate information models?

Is there any adjustment on the roles to cater for cloud computing in your organization?

What are the common set of technologies used to create a manageable cloud environment?

What is the value of cloud computing to an entrepreneur who is starting your organization?

Which cloud service or deployment model is the most appropriate for your organization?

Which it methodology does IBM incorporate into its service management approach to cloud?


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Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role… In EVERY group, company, organization and department.



Unless you're talking a one-time, single-use project, there should be a process. That process needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'



This Self-Assessment empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make IBM Cloud investments work better.



This IBM Cloud All-Inclusive Self-Assessment enables You to be that person.



INCLUDES all the tools you need to an in-depth IBM Cloud Self-Assessment. Featuring new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core levels of IBM Cloud maturity, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which IBM Cloud improvements can be made.



In using the questions you will be better able to:



Diagnose IBM Cloud projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices.



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Integrate recent advances in IBM Cloud and process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines.



Using the Self-Assessment tool gives you the IBM Cloud Scorecard, enabling you to develop a clear picture of which IBM Cloud areas need attention.



Your purchase includes access to the IBM Cloud self-assessment digital components which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool that enables you to define, show and lead your organization exactly with what's important.