Many enterprises struggle to manage heterogeneous environments that include legacy hardware and software. Inconsistencies in system configurations tend to proliferate, and long-term contracts for third-party solutions make it hard to switch vendors. Over time, IT gets mired in just keeping track of and maintaining all the individual applications. As a result, engineering and operations have less time to focus on finding new or better ways to provide the functionality that the business needs. Using cloud services to help solve these problems introduces the need to think differently about solution architecture, design, implementation, and operations.
In the cloud, IT should not focus simply on ...

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