It’s always been an issue—those who look at IT architecture as something that exists to serve a single application or small systems domain. These days many organizations fail to select a cloud technology to serve enterprise IT as a whole. They deal with a series of tactical application cases that all have one-off cloud architectures. Do that 20 to 30 times, and you’ll have a real problem.
The result is predictable. Cloud promised to lower costs and increase agility, but you’re facing a complex mess of cloud technologies built by one project after another.
