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6 Cloud computing drives transformational change Bringing others along Cloud strategy development is an evolutionary process in most enterprises. It requires coordination among a variety of stakeholders including IT professionals, developers, compliance experts, procurement, and security. Part of moving to the cloud is understanding the technology, but you also have to consider business and organizational impacts. Typical stages organizations go through include: Stage Impact Cloud aware IT staff is aware of broad cloud trends. Cloud experimentation IT organization begins to learn about various categories of cloud computing services such as Software as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Infrastructure as a Service. Opportunistic cloud IT organization begins to actively migrate workloads to the cloud to meet new business requirements. Cloud first Default assumption is that cloud services will fulfill the majority of the computing needs. Think about your own organization Where are you along this evolutionary journey? IT staff members may feel anxious about their roles and positions as they realize that a different set of skills is needed for the support of cloud solutions. But agile employees who explore and learn new cloud technologies need not fear. Current skills are still important as you manage a hybrid cloud environment. By adding new skills to manage compute, storage, and networking in the cloud, IT can lead the adoption of cloud services and help the organization understand and embrace changes in the industry.