>> Hey everybody, stay tuned,
where Pratibha and I will be talking about
What the Cloud Adoption Framework is
and why it can help you with your Cloud adoption journey.
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Welcome to the Azure Enablement show.
In this show, we're going to be talking
to Microsoft experts about some of their questions
and challenges you may face
when you're on your Cloud adoption journey.
Now, we're going to be starting off by
talking about the Cloud Adoption Framework,
and to take me through the Cloud Adoption Framework is Pratibha.
Pratibha, welcome to the show.
>> Hi Sarah, happy to be here.
>> Awesome. This Cloud Adoption Framework, what exactly is it?
>> The Cloud Adoption Framework is really a collection
of best practices and guidance that we have
gathered through our experience,
our engineers working with our customers,
our partners supporting customers,
and customers themselves who shared their stories with us.
It's all that rich knowledge and experience
that we have consolidated into a single location,
which is the Cloud Adoption Framework.
>> Who actually created it,
and why do we have it?
>> When you think about the Cloud adoption journey,
there's so many different options, choices out there.
Every organization's journey to the Cloud is actually very
unique because it's tailored to their specific business needs,
their organizational setup, their business priorities.
Because of all of this,
there were so many different conflicting pieces of information
out there that were creating confusion in the minds of customers.
There was this question ask of, "Hey, give me a clear,
consistent, proven way of doing things right in the Cloud."
That's where the Cloud Adoption Framework
really comes in very useful,
because it is all that rich experience
that we have gathered together into
that single location and consolidated
into one place as part of the framework.
>> Awesome. That sounds fantastic.
Now, who is this Cloud Adoption Framework for?
Is it the IT people,
or is it for the business decision-makers,
or is a combination?
Where are we actually aiming this towards?
>> The key roles in an organization, if you asked me,
that would find this framework very useful would be
technical decision-makers and Cloud architects.
However, if you keep those job titles aside,
it is anybody who's looking for answers to questions like,
"Hey, how do I get started with this thing?
Who are the people in
my organization that need to be
involved and support me in this process?
Are there any tools and templates and
resources out there that can help me get started?"
If you have any of those questions,
then Cloud Adoption Framework really hopes
to address the answers to those.
> Thank you for clearing that up.
What exactly does the Cloud Adoption Framework glove can do?
Show me actually, please.
>> Yeah, absolutely. Before I
really show you the framework, Sarah,
I'd like to just use one quick slide to give you
a visual reference of
what's the structure of the Cloud Adoption Framework.
If you can see the slide,
the structure of the framework
is very modular and we have
these six main modules out here,
which we call methodologies as part of the framework.
These methodologies align to the different phases
of a common Cloud adoption journey,
starting with defining your strategy where
an organization has to think
about why are you moving to the Cloud?
What are the business motivations
and drivers for Cloud adoption?
Then you go into the plan phase where you think about,
what's my current digital estate?
What needs to move first?
If it needs to move first,
and what are the people that are going to be involved
the stakeholders that need to be
involved to help make that move?
Are there any skills gap out there
and the people in that we need to close off on?
So you think about
all those different aspects and then put together
a single actionable Cloud adoption plan
where all the stakeholders
get aligned to that single source of truth.
Then you move into the ready phase
where you start thinking about,
how do I prepare my Cloud environment with
the proper governance and compliance in place
to move the workloads into the Cloud?
Then eventually in that adopt phase that you see,
the workloads actually get deployed to the Cloud.
At the bottom of this visual,
you will see the governance and manage
methodologies with every iteration of Plan, Ready,
Adopt, every iteration of Cloud adoption cycle,
you have to think about,
are you running a well-governed footprint in the Cloud?
Do you have the proper guardrails?
You have the proper governance.
Do you have the right operational best practices?
So the governance and management module
are really helpful to think about there.
That's really the structure of the framework,
and I'm going to jump right into
showing you where that actually lives.
This is the learning page of
the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure, Sarah.
As you see here,
we have the style interface,
and these styles are aligned to
these modules and methodologies
that I shared with you in this slide.
Right from this interface,
I can jump straight into the methodology that I want to look at.
For example, if I'm an organization,
just getting started and I want to think
about creating my Cloud strategy,
and I want to understand,
how do we think about the motivations and how does
that translate into the Cloud strategy?
I can go straight into
the content article on motivations where I can read
up about what are
the most common motivations that
organizations have for moving to the Cloud,
and how then that becomes a basis
of creating the Cloud strategy and the technology strategy.
Another example, if I'm an organization ready to go,
I have my strategy in place,
I've got the Cloud adoption plan,
and now I want to think about preparing
the Cloud environment to start moving the workloads,
and I want to learn more about the learning zones,
then I can jump straight into
the Azure Learning Zones article from here,
where I can go deep into this topic,
understand the different design areas.
What are the different implementation options out there
for creating learning zones and go from there.
Once you are right here,
you can see that we have
this nice tree view navigation here where I can go up
and down depending on
which methodology I'm interested in going deep in.
It's a single place, but you can start navigating from here.
That's really where the Cloud Adoption Framework lives.
>> Awesome. Thank you for taking me through that.
I'm starting to get a real clear picture of
what the Cloud Adoption Framework is.
What I'm wondering though,
is the Cloud Adoption Framework just
documentation or is it on other things as well?
>> At the face of it, it looks like documentation alone,
but in actual fact,
we are trying to create tools and
template that make this guidance
in the documentation very actionable.
So it's not just material to read and learn,
but it's also to act on that guidance
through using those tools and templates.
I'm going to use some slides to show you some
of those if you can give me a moment.
Let's start with Microsoft Assessments.
Microsoft Assessments are really Q&A style tools
that help customers evaluate where they are in their journey to
the Cloud and then get pointed to the right place
within the documentation to get started depending
on their responses to that questionnaire.
We have a couple of assessments here,
and I want to start talking about the first one here,
which is the Cloud Journey Tracker.
This one really helps you evaluate what exactly is
your very specific Cloud adoption need and finds you
recommendations within the documentation to get going.
Then we have the strategic migration assessment and
readiness tool which helps evaluate your preparedness,
your organization's preparedness to do Cloud migration at scale.
Lastly, we have the governance benchmark,
which is very top of mind for our customers.
It helps evaluate if there are any gaps in your currency of
governance and gives you
recommendations on how do you close those gaps.
That's Microsoft Assessments.
In addition to that,
we have other tools and templates as well
that support your journey in
different places or different points of
that end-to-end journey that we saw earlier.
We have the Cloud adoption plan template.
This is, as I talked about,
that actionable plan that organizations
should create in the plan methodology.
The Cloud adoption plan template
provides you guidance on what are
the key components that you need
to include in that Cloud adoption plan.
You need to include the skills readiness plan,
you need to include the security governance compliance plan,
and bring all the stakeholders on
a common platform of
understanding where you're at in your Cloud journey.
Once you have that Cloud adoption plan template,
what you can do is deploy it onto Azure DevOps.
We have another tool called the Azure DevOps Plan Generator,
which takes that Cloud adoption plan template and
makes it actionable in Azure DevOps.
Just like any other project in Azure DevOps,
it will be trackable,
it will be completely visible to
all your stakeholders in the organization.
Lastly, we have tools and
templates to support Azure landing zones,
which help customers prepare their Cloud environment.
Azure landing zones have
different implementation options and I believe
we'll be talking more about that in
later episodes as part of the series.
But what we've done is,
along with the implementation options
in the guidance and the documentation,
we've actually created tools and templates to
deploy those landing zones into Azure,
making it faster for
our customers to build the Cloud environments.
We have Azure landing zone blueprints,
which can give you a basic foundational MVP of that landing zone,
and then you can evolve that lead
drawn as your Cloud adoption involves.
We have the enterprise scale landing zone if you need
a very rich initial implementation
with proper governance and security.
Then lastly, we just very recently released
the Terraform module for
Cloud Adoption Framework enterprise scales.
All of these tools and templates are really
with the goal of making that guidance actionable.
>> Awesome. It seems like we have got a great source of
additional resources for our customers to look into.
Now the visual you showed me earlier
showed a journey through the Cloud Adoption Framework.
Is there a left to right journey or can
you dive in at any point during that journey and pick it up?
>> That's a very common question we often get asked, Sarah.
No, it's not a linear left to right journey.
You can really get onto the process
depending on where you are at.
The obvious question is, how do you
know where you're at in that process?
There are two ways to address that.
One is Microsoft Assessments,
which I briefly talked about,
which can guide you depending on where you're
at to the right place in the documentation to get started.
The second one is another key resource
that we have called the Get Started Guides.
I'm going to actually show you that.
Back to our documentation learning page right here,
we have a section called the Get started guides.
From here you can go straight into different get started guides.
What are these guides?
The guides are really aimed at addressing
common challenges that customers may face in their Cloud journey.
For example, you may have a challenge or a scenario like,
"Hey, I want to migrate existing workloads to the Cloud."
Or, "How do we think about delivering
operational excellence during Cloud transformation?"
"How do I manage enterprise cost?"
For each of these different scenarios,
the step-by-step guide provide you, as the name suggests,
a step-by-step walk through of what are
the key critical steps that you should
take to be able to address those scenarios.
I'll give you an example, for example,
let's look at this one, a very common one.
We want to migrate existing workloads to the Cloud.
If you look at this page as I scroll down,
these critical steps that customers should be thinking about
to be able to address that scenario that you have.
Actually all this documentation is spread across
the different phases but the get started guides
brings it together as a very
succinct get started guide for you to get going.
That's what the get started guides really addresses,
and we're building new scenarios into the guides.
>> If a customer is looking for some help along this journey,
can our Microsoft partners actually help them on
this journey or is it something they should be doing themselves?
>> Absolutely. The partners are very much part of
the Cloud adoption journey of our customers.
What our partners are doing is they're aligning
their solution offerings to
the different methodologies of the framework.
What I'm sharing right now on this screen
is this landing page that we
have which captures or lists all these partner offers
or solution offers out there which are
aligned to the different phases so you could actually
filter based on your specific need if you're
looking for a migration related offering or you're
looking at some of
the other methodologies you can
get going from this landing page and get help from our partners.
>> Awesome. Thank you so much for your time today Pratibha,
I've really got a clear idea of what
the Cloud Adoption Framework is.
Now if you want to check out some of
the resources that Pratibha actually mentioned,
check our description box where we're
going to be dropping the links.
Please do stay tuned for future episodes
of the show where we are going to be
digging into some of those additional resources
that Pratibha mentioned. Thank you.
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