Workload-Centric Digital Infrastructure Deployment: Best Practices for Governance

This IDC Perspective summarizes best practices and decision-making frameworks being used by industry leaders today and makes recommendations for how to best put these principles into action. Workload-centric digital infrastructure deployment strategies are becoming increasingly critical to the success of enterprise digital business initiatives. By using a continuous, collaborative business-focused approach to optimizing workload deployments across on-premises, public cloud, SaaS, and edge options, many organizations can improve business agility, accelerate digital business transformations, reduce costs, and improve security. "Organizations that plan to grow by expanding digital business initiatives need to proactively implement workload-centric deployment programs in order to manage costs, ensure security, and optimize the performance of development and data science activities across their organizations," explains Mary Johnston Turner, IDC's research vice president, Future of Digital Infrastructure Agenda.