Over the past few years Cloud-First has become a term thrown around the room to sound cool, what it entails is far more complex, to give an example its akin to moving homes with loads of items in boxes and an empty new home, the tool that you need is way to sort your items and organise your new house. This is what Microsoft’s Cloud Adoption Framework and Well-Architected Framework is for your Cloud move. What you should expect in this session is a ideation methodology that should help define your cloud move or if you already are there how to ensure you have secure governed environment confirming to best-practises and Industry standards.
Under CAF we would be discussing the best practices and process for a happy Cloud Adoption program, the areas that would be covered are –
• Strategy Definition - business justification and expected outcomes of adoption.
• Plan - Align actionable adoption plans to business outcomes.
• Ready – Setup the cloud environment for migrations/cloud adoption
• Adopt – Migrate/ Re-Platform/Innovate and get the workloads in cloud.
• Govern & Manage – Govern and Manage the Cloud Eco-system
Under WAF we would be discussing the Archetypes for –
• Cost Optimization
• Operational Excellence
• Performance Efficiency
• Security
• Reliability
Sam Khanjar is a decorated infrastructure specialist and established solution architect (with focus on Microsoft Azure), over seventeen years’ worth of expertise ranging from development, automation, managing virtual platforms and MS Windows/MS Exchange environments, he also has excellent networking knowledge with CISCO routers and PIX firewalls. He is also a technical blogger, and blogs about his personal experiences around new and existing technologies which you can follow on samkhanjar.com
