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## Focusing on efficiency and flexibility 

You don’t want to repeat the mistakes of the past. Clouds — whether they’re public, private, or hybrid — have to be designed to maximize the ability to standardize and automate. In this way, you have better control over costs and productivity. In addition, this consideration ensures that a standard approach based on best practices is followed consistently. 

## Planning for a fabric of services 

Your environment will incorporate a lot of elements or services that are available across business units. This prepares you to be able to respond across business units as well as across partners. For example, you want consistent fabrics for managing security, data, integration, and business services. These services should be independent of any specific implementation. Creating this type of best practice establishes a foundation for everything that you create, buy, or connect to. 

## Assuming that you’ll plan for a lightweight approach 

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Don’t over engineer your approach to cloud computing. Make sure that any service or application that’s a part of your hybrid environment includes well-defined interfaces (APIs) that are as standardized as possible. You want a streamlined approach that allows you to achieve your business goals and support innovation. 

## Monitored and managing everything you do 

Every service that’s created or any service that’s used needs to be considered part of your overall cloud environment — even components such as public cloud services (IaaS and PaaS). You can’t just worry about the services you own. Any service that touches an employee, a customer, or a partner needs to be monitored and managed with a service level. This approach helps the company better serve its customers, partners, and suppliers in a consistently predictable manner. 

## Transforming IT with Cloud 

If your organization expects to be successful in an increasingly interconnected and highly instrumented world you need to fundamentally transform the economics and flexibility of your IT environment. A good place to begin this transformation is 

