Fear the Ops

Here are five ways management toolkits are limiting cloud choice

The prevailing narrative around cloud today is one of agility and choice. From an infrastructure perspective, cloud theoretically gives businesses the ability to continuously modify their infrastructure to address ever-shifting demand and ever-expanding application portfolios.

From a development perspective, Docker containerization theoretically gives businesses the ability to deploy app code anywhere—while mixing-and-matching code modules to quickly bring new capabilities to market.

These dream scenarios, however, are being brought down to earth by the reality of IT ops. In fact, operational issues are seriously constraining the ability of businesses to reap the promised benefits of a frictionless cloud market where code can run wherever it’s most technically and economically advantageous to do so at any given time.