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In this article, we will try to build a Cloud Governance Management System (CGMS), which is an integrated system consistent with Cloud services and allow to reach Cloud objectives. The main CGMS’s components are: Principles; Reference models, policies, processes, procedures and tools; Organizational structure, roles and responsibilities; Monitoring and Key Performance Indicators (KPI). We already discussed principles principles, so let see more details about reference models, policies and processes....

You know what are the impacts of Cloud adoption on your governance and you start with building your Cloud principles, what next? An important phase at this point it’s the alignment of company business goals with Cloud services. If the Cloud objectives are not aligned with real company needs, Cloud service adoption can be a step backwards in terms of cost and efficiency rather than a qualitative advantage. Let better distingue the difference between goals and objectives....

Every day, more and more new organizations decide to adopt the Cloud Computing paradigm. The adoption of this paradigm imposes some changes in company organizations, introducing new challenges and opportunities. In this article, I would like to discuss the Cloud computing definition, opportunities and impacts on IT governance. After, we will follow a path that conducts us to build a Cloud computing governance, putting in evidence the principal aspects to consider during the adoption of the Cloud computing paradigm....

From a high level, the governance goal is to ensure that we are doing the right things in the right way. The questions we are trying to ask are the following: Are we doing the right thing? Are we doing it in the right way? How we can understand it? Cloud computing governance it’s a comprehensive view of IT governance focused on responsibility, the definitions of the right decision and the balance between benefit/value....