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Cloud computing: Build an effective cloud policy

Date:  18 Nov 2011 |Level: Introductory |

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1. Learn the basics of building an IT policy

Although IT SOA and governance policies may seem to fall under the responsibilities of a systems administrator, IT planner/designer, or even a CTO, it’s never too early in your career to start learning how to write a policy that defines the infrastructure, security, performance, or public interaction frameworks within which your collection of applications will run. Besides, at the heart of each good IT administrator is a top-notch developer and programmer. Skip this section if you know the basics of IT policies.

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2. Explore various cloud computing IT policies

Examine how IT policies interact with the cloud environment in these topic areas: Security, billing, metering, workload.

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3. Learn to write cloud computing IT policies

Examine the reasons for building cloud policies in these policy areas: Threshold, security, performance, mobile computing. These resources contain a template you can use to craft your own cloud policy.

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4. Learn to use IT policies on the IBM Cloud

IBM cloud experts explain how to integrate policies on IBM SmartCloud Enterprise.

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5. Go further: Gain more skills in cloud-oriented policy and governance creation

If you want to go beyond Step 4 of this knowledge path, explore the resources in this section.

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About this knowledge path

This knowledge path introduces concepts on building an SOA and governance IT policy. It then provides insights on different types of policies you may find useful when dealing with a cloud computing environment and delivers templates you can use to write various cloud computing environment policies.

Activities in this path

  1. Learn the basics of building an IT policy
  2. Explore various cloud computing IT policies
  3. Learn to write cloud computing IT policies
  4. Learn to use IT policies on the IBM Cloud
  5. Go further: Gain more skills in cloud-oriented policy and governance creation

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