- How much experience does your organization have with building and deploying containerized applications to run on cloud platforms?
- Focusing on a Cloud-Native or greenfield approach will support applications that only run on new technology, what about the apps that also have some traditional technology?
- What policies and processes does your organization have that constrain cloud service decisions?
- When deploying new Cloud-Native applications, most customers find that they see an acceleration in data storage needs – how does this growth in storage impact your cloud strategy?
- How does your organization leverage the Platform as a Service cloud computing delivery model?
- Where will your data reside and how will your Cloud-Native applications access it?
- What ability does your organization obtain when using a microservices oriented architecture to develop Cloud-Native applications?
- What are the most important container management platform features to help your organization expand its use of containers to build, deploy, and manage Cloud-Native software at scale?
- Do you understand the various native tools and capabilities the cloud service provider offers that can help you secure your applications and data?
- Will applications need to change in order to use cloud infrastructure from different providers?
- How does your cloud solution work with the rest of your business and technology environment?
- How do you prepare your data centers to support Cloud-Native applications and integrate more smoothly into your hybrid cloud?
- What does it take to move an application from cloud service A to cloud service B?
- Is any solution integrated with a Cloud-Native platform or is it at physically separate co locations with disparate network and security functions that can impact your user performance?
- How will you achieve this in a public cloud world where infrastructure and applications can be architected to take advantage of native functionality, reducing traditional machinery and complexity?
- If your organization were to implement cloud data management, what would its leading benefits be?
- Are the security tools natively offered by cloud infrastructure service providers sufficient for your enterprise?
- Can your solution integrate with data classification and tagging solutions in cloud services?
- Who is accountable for handling large scale data processing and machine learning workloads and distributed systems using Cloud-Native services on one or more Cloud Platforms (GCP, Azure and/or AWS).
- How do your vendors support a Cloud-Native delivery model to minimize total cost of ownership?
- How long will it take to build a development environment to begin Cloud-Native development?
- What changes are required in the enterprises operating model to take advantage of potential to build cloud-native applications and assemble (rather than build) Cloud-Native business capabilities?
- Where are the cloud providers service centers, and what level of vetting have the staff undergone?
- How does adopting a Cloud-Native approach to application development boost your bottom line?
- How will moving to multi cloud services affect compliance requirements your organization has?
- Does your organization have an identity management strategy that supports the adoption of cloud services?
- Does your organization have the time to build, deploy and maintain a new, Cloud-Native application?
- How does your solution identify and control Cloud-Native man in the middle (MITM) attacks?
- Does your backup software use Cloud-Native interfaces (as the Amazon S3 protocol) to write data directly to the cloud?
- How can adopting Cloud-Native application development help your organization innovate and generate additional business value?
- Do you want the ability to move applications across multiple cloud infrastructures?
- Is building Cloud-Native applications the only way to get the necessary agility and scalability?
- Are you struggling to deploy and manage Cloud-Native applications on conventional infrastructure?
- Why would you choose a cloud security tool without evaluating its ability to secure the cloud too?
- How do you manage the use of Cloud-Native architectures and capabilities across your organization?
- Is the service provider responsible for patching all components that make up the cloud service?
- How much benefit can be leveraged from Cloud-Native applications that are now being rolled out to carriers?
- How can Cloud-Native application development help you get new projects completed faster?
- Are employees allowed to access personal cloud storage services from your organizations network?
- How do you develop cloud applications that are secure by design?
- How do you develop modern Cloud-Native applications and integrate into your existing environments?
- Why use container orchestration systems or serverless functions in your Cloud-Native approach?
- How will the digital natives develop new identities and new models of value exchange in the world of cloud served supercomputing?
- Which of your legacy workloads might need to be migrated and to which cloud platform?
- When did you start to realize that the cloud was going to change software engineering?
- How do you manage unmanaged/offsite devices that access cloud services?
- Can cloud meet your business continuity and disaster recovery requirements for the application?
- How can the differences between public cloud infrastructure and on site systems be minimized?
- What keeps organizations that are already running the workloads in the cloud up at night?
- Is a cloud adoption initiative any different than any other organizational change management project?
- How and where are Cloud-Native technologies being deployed and tested in the network?
- How do you secure access to your cloud workloads?
- How important are infrastructure scalability and agility in enabling successful DevOps and Cloud-Native application strategies?
- How do you implement similar rigor and depth of controls in cloud infrastructure?
- How important is Kubernetes to your organizations Cloud-Native application strategy?
- How do you ensure rigorous compliance for cloud workloads?
- What is different when it comes to defining quality engineering strategy for a Cloud-Native development?
- Does marketing cloud analytics builder reporting include reports for all channels?
- What makes detecting malicious behavior in the cloud different from traditional environments?
- How do you detect unauthorized cloud services?
- Does each business microservice have to own its own data and manage its own database?
- What native controls have been implemented and what scope of control does the customer have?
- Will the service provider use the data for any purpose other than the delivery of the service?
- How does your organization justify a move to converged application and infrastructure monitoring?
- Is the service providers use of personal information clearly set out in its privacy policy?
- Do you have the culture, skills, and tools in place to support continuous testing?
- Will you ensure your staff has the correct data access permissions based on your access policies?
- How do you control who has access to your data once it leaves your data center?
- Does the service provider perform regular tests of its security processes and controls?
- What features are required to support micro services architecture in all the segments?
- How do you ensure CSP has implemented security controls to mitigate third party risks?
- What strategies or business models should be used by service providers and consumers?
- How does the team handle the new scope and continue to finish coordination on the new areas?
- What is the size and frequency of data transfer that might impact the cost or performance?
- What infrastructure level security controls are already in place in your enterprise?
- What methodologies are you using to deliver software and manage changes to applications?
- What would the impact on the business be if the information was disclosed in an unauthorized manner?
- What would the impact on the business be if the integrity of the information was compromised?
- Do long delivery times for existing applications negatively impact your organization?
- Do you need any additional security for the integrations in a hybrid environment?
- What are the administration, operations, lifecycle management and data transfer costs?
- Who is accountable for what and is your data protected even if you change providers?
- Do you need to maintain supplier leverage with your infrastructure providers to hedge costs?
- How do you create, run, and scale new applications quickly and easily?
- What kinds of data are handled and what regulations are associated with that data?
- How do you speed up security investigations and reduce the impact of insider threats?
- Does security from malicious users or poorly written code cause concerns in your current environment?
- Does your technology stack enable rapid security response to viral vulnerabilities?
- What types of design and manufacturing services are suitable to move to the cloud?
- How do you go about building a suitable business plan for hybrid cloud?
- How do you monitor performance, health, and security across diverse, distributed infrastructure?
- What projects, objectives and new goals do you intend to pursue thanks to the use of tools?
- How do you experiment, get to market faster, and reduce the cost of trying new things?
- Can the solution easily customize SAML assertions, supporting custom integration scenarios?
- How do you get access to patches and updates?
- Is there an effective internal process that ensures that identities are managed throughout lifecycle?
- How do you get more speed, agility and performance for your IT assets?
- Can your simulations and prototypes be used for new technologies and design tasks?
- Will the customer be satisfied with the performance and the quality of the product?
- How do other organizations connect every asset in every location to just one centralized system?
