{"id":10755,"date":"2014-05-09T10:30:30","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T10:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/may\/09\/governance-public-clouds-and-mspscreating-a-strategy\/"},"modified":"2014-05-09T10:30:30","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T10:30:30","slug":"governance-public-clouds-and-msps-creating-a-strategy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/governance-public-clouds-and-msps-creating-a-strategy-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Governance, public clouds, and MSPs: Creating a strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By David Linthicum<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Governance is a loaded term.&nbsp; In the old days of enterprise architecture, it meant the ability to yell at staffers who used the wrong operating systems and databases, thus enterprise architecture was more of a management concept.&nbsp; These days, with the emergence of cloud computing, enterprise architecture is how we control, manage, and secure cloud resources and services.<\/p>\n<p>Public clouds typically don&rsquo;t exist on their own.&nbsp; They have to work and play well with existing or even new systems that reside on other compute models, such as co-location or managed services providers (MSPs).&nbsp; As a consultant, I find that larger organizations have several brands of public and private clouds, as well as an existing MSP, or, the enterprise will use an MSP in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>This is called multi-cloud, and it drives the need for better governance approaches and technology.&nbsp; A recent CompTIA survey reveals &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By David Linthicum<br \/>\nGovernance is a loaded term.&nbsp; In the old days of enterprise architecture, it meant the ability to yell at staffers who used the wrong operating systems and databases, thus enterprise architecture was more of a management concept&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}