Sunday, October 21, 2018

Cloud Transformation

Business is all about efficiency and effectiveness.  In today’s world, however, those twin goals almost always lead to the cloud. Cloud Transformation is a Journey which you have to take in the modern IT world.

Cloud Experiences should include

  • How to understand and classify business critical data;
  • Executing an efficient process for screening and selecting workloads and applications for cloud migration;
  • Following a methodology for discovering the most effective strategy for each workload and application migration; and
  • Seamless alignment to client’s multi-cloud strategy
Experience has also shown that businesses are in different stages of their “Journey to the Cloud.”  These initial stages often include:

  • Planning and designing common foundational infrastructure services;
  • Pattern and Template based automated deployments for public clouds;
  • Migrating workloads and applications to the most appropriate cloud through a standardized, repeatable tool driven framework;
  • Monitor and Manage workloads using standardized tools and process aligned to cloud platforms; and
  • Governing, tracking, managing and optimizing cloud usage and spend.
1. Classifying and Organizational Data

 - Covers the identification of key business processes and their associated data types.  
 - Outlines the importance of identifying process data owners 
 - And the required security controls for each data type.

2. Application Screening

 -  Looks at determining the most appropriate target deployment environment, 
 -  Looks at each application’s business benefit, 
 -  Looks at key performance indicator options and target return on investment.  
 -  That segment also shows how to select the most appropriate migration strategy for each application.  

 3. Executing the Migration

- Includes selecting the most appropriate cloud service provider and technology services, 
- Reviewing and verifying available data security controls and suggested steps for SLA negotiations.  - Also addresses business/mission model alignment, organizational change management, and migration project planning.

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