Next Steps
We hope that this whitepaper has resonated with you: that the principles make sense, and the value of implementing these principles in your environment is clear. As mentioned in the introduction, an implementation will vary in technical complexity from customer-to-customer, and this is the justification for why this whitepaper does not provide implementation-level details or step-by-step guides.
However, there are next steps you can take depending on your organizational level of maturity with VCF and the Private Cloud concepts.
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If you are largely unfamiliar with VCF: Engage your Broadcom account team to present the options to you around VCF, and the possibility of participating in a VCF experience day to learn more about how VCF helps you to be your own cloud provider and get hands-on experience with the components and capabilities of VCF.
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If you are running VCF and want assistance with implementing these concepts within your environment: Have a conversation with Professional Services at Broadcom about engaging consulting assistance to help you with the people, process, and technology elements of implementing these service-oriented operating principles in your environment.
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If you are licensed for VCF but not currently running the full VCF stack: For customers running the VCF suite of products but not the full VCF stack, implementation of these principles still delivers operational benefits and serves as a great transitionary step towards implementing a Private Cloud based on VCF. Contact your Broadcom account team for a discussion.
If you want to learn more and go deeper: for customers who have good operational and technical skills within their teams already and want to learn more and go deeper by themselves, familiarize yourself with the Private Cloud Management, 5th edition, book written by Iwan Rahabok, Domain Architect for IT Operations Management at Broadcom.