- Published 1/5/2016
- 1st Edition
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.
Table of Contents
Introduction iv
Acknowledgments iv
Errata, updates, & book support iv
Free ebooks from Microsoft Press v
We want to hear from you v
Chapter 1: The cloud, efficiency, and innovation 1
Economics of the cloud 1
Daily efficiencies 3
Innovation 3
Telenor 4
Aviva 5
3M Parking Systems 6
Heineken 7
Learnings 7
Chapter 2: Journey to the cloud: the roadmap 9
Don’t miss the opportunity to modernize 10
Evolution of the five R’s of modernization 11
Cloud migration: three stages 12
Chapter 3: Experimentation 14
Microsoft IT’s first cloud application 14
Experimentation and the problem of “shadow” IT 15
Chapter 4: Migrating IT to the cloud 18
Establish strategy and goals 18
Organizational responsibilities in creating the strategy 22
Enterprise architecture 22
Information security and risk management 23
Data classification 24
Enterprise Risk Management 25
Finance 25
Operations 26
Human resources and the evolution of roles 27
Applications teams 29
Business units 30
Building the catalog 30
Top-down portfolio analysis 31
Bottom-up portfolio analysis 33
The cloud migration plan 35
Microsoft IT’s experience 37
Cloud governance 38
Data governance 38
Financial governance 39
Security and compliance 40
Change management 40
Information Technology Infrastructure Library and the cloud 41
Chapter 5: Transformation 43
Platform as a Service architecture 43
Containers and microservices 44
Storage 44
Relational databases in the cloud 45
NoSQL (nonrelational) storage 46
Analysis 49
Integration 52
Using services to create rich end-to-end applications 53
Conclusions 55
Appendix A: Cloud architectural blueprints 57
Data analytics 57
BI and analytics 59
Live media streaming 61
Video on demand (VOD) 63
Line-of-business applications in infrastructure services 65
Hybrid cloud storage 67
E-commerce website 68
Business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce 70
Multichannel marketing 72
DevOps 73
Appendix B: Sample technology scenarios 76
Hybrid cloud scenarios 76
Hybrid cloud connectivity 76
Using the cloud for data backup and recovery 78
Hybrid database scenarios 81
Development and test 82
Application development 82
Microsoft SharePoint 83
High availability in the cloud 83
Connected devices 85
Identity and authentication 86
Mobile applications 88
Enterprise mobility management 89
Websites 90
Azure Media Services 92
Migration strategies 93
Appendix C: Recommended references 95
Storage references 95
Application development and insights references 95
Performance best practices references 95
Other cloud migration references 96
About the authors 97