Data delivery best practices overview

Each cloud platform provider will provide a unique perspective on the data delivery problem with mechanisms best suited for their cloud service offerings. They will offer a promise that with their best practices, a best-in-class and least costly solution is possible for your business needs. With this promise comes the expected cloud training and resulting cloud vendor lock-in. The cost to switch after implementing data flows will be high unless you implement IaaS services (Infrastructure as a service) and avoid most if not all PaaS (Platform as a service) or SaaS (Software as a service) services that result in specific cloud lock-in. You can and should architect your data flows to enable your organization’s procurement group some leverage to negotiate with cloud providers; but that requires you to focus on the capabilities, features, and interfaces of the data flows you intend to build into your data solution. These should be modularized...