Is your company ready for cloud? (1st ed )
Choosing the Best Cloud Adoption Strategy for Your Business
IBM Press Series

- Practical business cases, vignettes, and techniques including outsourcing considerations that will help consumers understand when cloud investments make sense and help providers understand the expectations of cloud consumers

- Techniques for developing your enterprise cloud adoption strategy that includes guidance on identifying and prioritizing both cloud candidates and enablers

- Financial considerations that should be communicated and incorporated into your strategy for current and downstream project effectiveness

-Practical Small-Medium-Enterprise (SME) and Large Enterprise (LE) business scenarios and analysis of cloud business adoption patterns and trends

-Enterprise cloud adoption strategy and roadmap examples that involve regulatory requirements, risk management, and rationale behind sourcing and provider selection decisions

- Explanations of why it's important to reflect current Enterprise Architecture in cloud decision-making, what happens when companies don't, and why it is important to incorporate cloud considerations into your EA

- Insights to organizations that may not have an EA and the business benefits of embracing EA principles to incorporate cloud into your organization

- Includes a foreword by Kerrie Holley, IBM Fellow and GBS CTO, co-inventor of Service-Oriented Modeling and Architecture (SOMA) and the Service Integration Maturity Model (SIMM)

1. Frontmatter (will include a Foreword by Kerrie Holley)
2. Introduction
3. Chapter 1 Business Value of a Cloud Adoption Strategy
4. Chapter 2 Business Value of Incorporating Cloud Into Your Enterprise Architecture (EA)
5. Chapter 3 The Lifecycle of Your Enterprise Cloud Adoption Strategy
6. Chapter 4 Identifying Cloud Candidates
7. Chapter 5 What About Governance?
8. Chapter 6 Mitigating Risk
9. Chapter 7 Planning the Transition
10. Chapter 8 Financial Considerations
11. Epilogue
12. Appendix A. Augmenting Your Delivery Model with Cloud
13. Appendix B. Cloud Case Studies and Common Questions
14. Appendix C. More on Cloud Business Trends
15. Notes and References
16. Glossary

Pamela K. Isom is a Global Principal Consultant at Dell Inc., where she leads very large cloud strategy and next generation data center engagements.  On the customer front, Pamela partners to ensure IT transformation success, working with all stakeholders from the CEO to delivery practitioners where her ultimate strength is driving business value with strategy and technology. Prior to Dell, Pamela was executive architect in IBM^® Global Business Services_® and a chief architect of Complex Cloud Integration and Enterprise Application Delivery in the Application Innovation Services, Interactive Solutions Practice. While at IBM, Pam was a member of the IBM Academy of Technology where she led smarter cities and cloud computing in highly regulated environment initiatives. She also  managed the GBS/AIS patent board having filed and received issuance of several patents with the U. S. Patent Attorney’s office.

Pamela is a graduate of Walden University She is an active alumni and plans to teach other students; she is an active member of IEEE, The Society of Women Engineers (SWE), the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), The American Legion where she and her husband connect with and support the military and their families, and Pamela is a frequent speaker at global, industrywide conferences. Pamela is a two time recipient of the Black Engineer of the Year Award for Modern Day Technology Leaders and a contributor to numerous publications on Intelligent Enterprise Architecture, Smarter Buildings, and Maximizing the Value of Cloud for Small-Medium-Enterprises, an Open Group Guide; and she is a key contributor to three books: The Greening of IT by John Lamb, SOA 100 Questions Asked and Answered by Kerrie Holley and Ali Arsanjani, and Cloud Computing for Business by The Open Group where she also resided on the editorial board.

• Shows how to optimize cloud adoption by aligning business and IT requirements, pain points, strengths, and inhibitors
• Includes practical examples that clarify when cloud computing makes sense
• Shows how to reduce risk and increase ROI by incorporating cloud services into existing enterprise architecture, and identifies architectural refinements to increase the cloud's value