Identify business aspects of cloud vendor relations

- [Presenter] Since most of your IT architecture will be used in a vendor's cloud, having a strong relationship with your cloud provider is essential to success. Cloud adoptions means change and that requires users to step outside of their comfort zone as many groups will be affected. Professional services are different depending on what vendor you go with, but the provider you do choose can mostly help with your transition by providing expert level guidance. The key is to know what to ask about to ensure success. There are many topics you want to discuss with them, but specifically, time to market or TTM, skill availability, support options, and finally, manage service. When it comes to TTM or time to market, this is a common metric where the length of time can be released to market is gauged. This helps to gauge when customers can use services. Skill availability is yet another factor. Likely, your workforce needs to…