Introduction In the nearly 70 years since John McCarthy coined the term “artificial intelligence,” we’ve seen wave after wave of technological innovation, from the rise of personal computing to the internet, mobile devices, the cloud, and now, generative AI. Each of these shifts has created new opportunities and new questions for leaders. How can these […]
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Prologue Organizations use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to store, manage, and access the rapidly increasing quantities of data that accompany digital innovations for evolving customer needs. Enterprises such as GE, the Coca-Cola Company, BP, Enel, Samsung, NewsCorp, and Twenty-First Century Fox have successfully migrated their on-premises workloads to AWS. By doing so, they benefitted from
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Once you’ve migrated, you’ll want to keep your VMs continuously secure, protect your data, and monitor your cloud health. All that’s easy to do with Azure—once you have an understanding of the full suite of available controls and capabilities. Secure cloud resources Ensuring strong security for your cloud-based resources is a responsibility that’s shared between
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Your migration to cloud options will depend on many factors: What are your most pressing needs? What are the skills on your team? Where are your apps in the development lifecycle? Ggenerally they fall into one of five categories (see picture). Five Options for Migrating Applications to the Cloud Rehost Also known as “lift and
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Cloud opportunity In recent years, global business has witnessed significant cloud adoption, which provides considerable value over traditional datacenters— achieving greater scalability, cost efficiency, and improved performance. Many organizations now want to quickly take advantage of the benefits of the cloud by migrating their existing applications and workloads. However, cloud migration requires careful planning and
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When you work with companies, you will often encounter objections that they will want to address in a way that can build trust and awareness. Understanding their underlining challenges and concerns is critical in providing them with the appropriate solution. The common objection categories selected here are So now, let’s dive a little deeper into
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Operations perspective The operations perspective focuses on ensuring that cloud services are delivered at a level that is agreed upon with business stakeholders. Automating and optimizing operations will allow to effectively scale while improving the reliability of workloads. This perspective comprises nine capabilities. Common stakeholders include infrastructure and operations leaders, site reliability engineers, and information
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Security perspective The security perspective helps achieve the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data and cloud workloads. It comprises nine capabilities. Common stakeholders include CISO, CCO, internal audit leaders, and security architects and engineers. 1. Security governance Develop, maintain, and effectively communicate security roles, responsibilities, accountabilities, policies, processes, and procedures. Ensuring clear lines of accountability
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Platform perspective The platform perspective focuses on accelerating the delivery of cloud workloads via an enterprise-grade, scalable, hybrid cloud environment. It comprises seven. Common stakeholders include CTO, technology leaders, architects, and engineers. 1. Platform architecture Establish and maintain guidelines, principles, patterns, and guardrails for cloud environment. A well-architected cloud environment will help accelerate implementation, reduce
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Governance perspective The governance perspective focuses on orchestrating cloud initiatives while maximizing organizational benefits and minimizing transformation-related risks. It comprises seven capabilities. Common stakeholders include chief transformation officer, CIO, CTO, CFO, CDO, and CRO. 1. Program and project management Deliver interdependent cloud initiatives in a flexible and coordinated manner. Complex, cross-functional cloud transformation initiatives require
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