The Doppler Quarterly Fall 2016 | Page 81

Operations Operations often becomes the largest investment in a multi-cloud deployment. Staff will require additional training, skills and expertise to effectively manage all cloud platforms beyond a single vendor. Before the adoption of multiple cloud platforms, a mature CloudOps model with a single cloud vendor must be in place. This strong model will ensure that there are both mature processes and mature capabilities to build upon internally as additional platforms are added. Figure 2 shows the seven key guiding principles of a mat