Transform your Cloud Estate

By now, many organisations have taken that leap into the cloud, often to solve an immediate problem, such as a need to retire their own datacentre, or much needed reduction in costs.?

However, many have done so without having time to appreciate the wider implications, and often without a clear operational strategy.

Many fall into a common trap that they view the cloud in the same way as say a remote data centre, but cloud adoption is much more and deeper than just a lift and shift. In fact, cloud adoption is the perfect time and opportunity for transformation; where you must define the strategy for a new way to work not just technologically, but culturally and procedurally too.

In fact, the key to not just adopting the cloud, but maintaining it, growing it, and transforming your business, is to thoroughly plan. It’s a cliché, but measure twice, cut once, is equally applicable for your successful adoption of the cloud!

You need to make sure you have a cloud strategy that not only fits your organisation like a glove but also outlines the digital transformation, and there are industry-standard frameworks that can guide your cloud adoption journey. It is important to guide your organisation away from traditional IT thinking, to ensure they realise business benefits and harness the true potential of the cloud, driving innovation.

It is vital to ensure the correct governance is implemented from the outset – creating the right structures to manage, support and, if necessary, constrain how the cloud is used and developed.

And transforming your cloud estate is really an umbrella term for everything you need to consider in successfully adopting the cloud in your organisation.? You need to make sure you have an effective cloud integration strategy, and to consider how AI can impact your organisation, not only with the bigger picture of transformation but more importantly how it is managed and delivered.

Join Black Marble in Manchester as we share our knowledge and learnings in these three sessions:

? Session 1 - Delivering a Successful Cloud Strategy with Confidence

? Session 2 - Azure Accidents and How to Avoid Them

? Session 3 - Embracing Green Cloud Computing for your Organisation

Also, take advantage of our excellent white papers to help understand best practice for our industry. Contact [email protected] for any of our Essential Guide to the Cloud white papers, including “Delivering an Enterprise Cloud Operating Model”, “Successful Software Delivery with DevOps”, and “Business Process Automation and Integration in the Cloud” or to be kept informed as each new paper is published.