How do you start? How should you build a plan for cloud migration for your entire portfolio? How will your organization be affected by these changes?
This book, based on real-world cloud experiences by enterprise IT teams, seeks to provide the answers to these questions. Here, you'll see what makes the cloud so compelling to enterprises; with which applications you should start your cloud journey; how your organization will change, and how skill sets will evolve; how to measure progress; how to think about security, compliance, and business buy-in; and how to exploit the ever-growing feature set that the cloud offers to gain strategic and competitive advantage.
Author(s): Barry Briggs; Eduardo Kassner
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Year: 2016
Language: English
Pages: 128
Introduction
Acknowledgments
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Chapter 1: The cloud, efficiency, and innovation
Economics of the cloud
Daily efficiencies
Innovation
Telenor
Aviva
3M Parking Systems
Heineken
Learnings
Chapter 2: Journey to the cloud: the roadmap
Don’t miss the opportunity to modernize
Evolution of the five R’s of modernization
Cloud migration: three stages
Chapter 3: Experimentation
Microsoft IT’s first cloud application
Experimentation and the problem of “shadow” IT
Chapter 4: Migrating IT to the cloud
Establish strategy and goals
Organizational responsibilities in creating the strategy
Enterprise architecture
Information security and risk management
Data classification
Enterprise Risk Management
Finance
Operations
Human resources and the evolution of roles
Applications teams
Business units
Building the catalog
Top-down portfolio analysis
Bottom-up portfolio analysis
The cloud migration plan
Microsoft IT’s experience
Cloud governance
Data governance
Financial governance
Security and compliance
Change management
Information Technology Infrastructure Library and the cloud
Chpater 5: Transformation
Platform as a Service architecture
Containers and microservices
Storage
Relational databases in the cloud
NoSQL (nonrelational) storage
Analysis
Integration
Using services to create rich end-to-end applications
Conclusions
Appendix A: Cloud architectural blueprints
Data analytics
BI and analytics
Live media streaming
Video on demand (VOD)
Line-of-business applications in infrastructure services
Hybrid cloud storage
E-commerce website
Business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce
Multichannel marketing
DevOps
Appendix B: Sample technology scenarios
Hybrid cloud scenarios
Hybrid cloud connectivity
Using the cloud for data backup and recovery
Hybrid database scenarios
Development and test
Application development
Microsoft SharePoint
High availability in the cloud
Connected devices
Identity and authentication
Mobile applications
Enterprise mobility management
Websites
Azure Media Services
Migration strategies
Appendix C: Recommended references
Storage references
Application development and insights references
Performance best practices references
Other cloud migration references
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