The Cloud Adoption Program
Cloud adoption across an enterprise is a major undertaking. Let our team of experts help your enterprise launch a successful cloud initiative so you can quickly realize the benefits of cloud technology to grow and stay competitive.
What is The Cloud Adoption Program?
Based on the best practices from hundreds of successful engagements, the Cloud Adoption Program (CAP) brings together the best technology, practices and learnings for enterprise-wide cloud adoption. We walk you through our comprehensive framework for cloud adoption, helping you build your own cloud program so you can deliver business results faster, no matter where you are in your cloud transformation.
The 5 Phases of The Cloud Adoption Program
1) WORKSHOP
Bring your team together for a Cloud Leadership Workshop to review our comprehensive approach to enterprise cloud adoption, ensuring your team is aligned around your cloud goals and objectives.
Establish team objectives and goals of CAP
Economics and TCO
Highlight drivers for adoption
Review CAP details and education
Identify key security and governance pain points
Use cases and POCs
Create actionable next steps
2) ASSESS & PLAN
Assess your current state and quantify the benefits and effort to move to cloud. Identify key requirements, concerns, controls and constraints for your cloud plan.
Enterprise application and infrastructure assessment
TCO and ROI estimation
Identification and remediation of key security controls and technologies
Identification of pilot applications for migration and Migration Factory
Reference architectures and Minimum Viable Cloud definition
Prioritization of critical path dependencies, risks and constraints
Alignment of stakeholders on roadmap, success criteria, and resources
Creation of a Cloud Business Office
3) BUILD
Build your Minimum Viable Cloud (MVC) and migrate representative applications. Set up Migration Factory tools, processes and teams. Transfer principles and methodologies to prepare for a full-scale migration.
Develop and build a MVC
Migrate pilot workloads as representative use cases
Validate applications and operations on the MVC
Build initial Migration Factory teams with people, process, playbooks and technology
Verify economic model against larger estate of applications
Map security, compliance and operational approaches against new controls
Position the organization to adopt cloud resources at scale
4) MIGRATION
You’ve built the foundation for a world-class cloud program. Now it’s time to start your full-scale portfolio migration.
Build program management teams and establish project plans
Security and governance controls implementation
Build migration factory – infrastructure, tooling, processes, playbooks
Operational transformation and cloud service management
Workloads and data migration / production cutover
Knowledge transfer and enablement
Post migration support and handoff of applications
Economic alignment and controls
Executive presentation, training and handoff
5) OPERATIONS & MAINTENANCE
Offload the maintenance and operations of your cloud environment, enabling your team to focus on what they do best.
100% availability architecture design
DevOps deployment and configuration automation
Disaster recovery and automated backups
Audit readiness for verticals
Enterprise-grade security services
Integration with on-premise or private cloud environments
