People who define new cloud platforms in enterprises often do only half the work. What do they miss? They consistently overlook these three areas:
Governance, both at the resource levels (such as storage and compute) and at the service level (such as APIs). Governance is like having brakes on a car. You don’t need it until you are well under way. The ability to manage thousands of APIs, for example — both cloud-delivered and home-built — becomes cumbersome after about 500.
