{"id":21762,"date":"2020-11-19T15:00:23","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T14:00:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-11-13T13:28:45","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T12:28:45","slug":"how-you-can-use-the-microsoft-cloud-adoption-framework-for-azure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-gb\/industry\/blog\/technetuk\/2020\/11\/19\/how-you-can-use-the-microsoft-cloud-adoption-framework-for-azure\/","title":{"rendered":"How you can use the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Cloud Adoption Framework is all about consolidating and sharing best practices from Microsoft employees, partners, and customers. The framework provides us with a set of tools, guidance, and narratives that help shape technology, business, and strategies for driving desired business outcomes during their adoption effort. This guidance aligns to the different phases of the cloud adoption lifecycle, ensuring the right guidance at the right time.<\/p>\n

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Understanding the cloud adoption lifecycle<\/h2>\n

Each of the phases are part of a broad cloud adoption lifecycle. The image below ties together each phase to demonstrate the overall lifecycle. The Cloud Adoption Framework is a full lifecycle framework, supporting customers throughout each individual phase.<\/p>\n

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Intent<\/h2>\n

The cloud fundamentally changes how enterprises procure and use technology resources. Traditionally, enterprises assumed ownership and responsibility for all aspects of technology, from infrastructure to software. By moving to the cloud, enterprises can provision and consume resources only when they’re needed. Although the cloud offers tremendous flexibility in design choices, enterprises need a proven and consistent methodology for adopting cloud technologies. The Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure meets that need, helping guide decisions throughout cloud adoption.<\/p>\n

However, cloud adoption is only a means to an end. Successful cloud adoption starts well before a cloud platform vendor is selected. It begins when business and IT decision makers realise that the cloud can accelerate a specific business transformation objective. The Cloud Adoption Framework can help them align strategies for business, culture, and technical change to achieve their desired business outcomes.<\/p>\n

The Cloud Adoption Framework provides technical guidance for Microsoft Azure. Because enterprise customers might still be in the process of choosing a cloud vendor, the framework provides cloud-agnostic guidance for strategic decisions whenever possible.<\/p>\n

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Your intended audience<\/h2>\n

This guidance affects the business, technology, and culture of enterprises. The affected roles include line-of-business leaders, business decision makers, IT decision makers, finance, enterprise administrators, IT operations, IT security and compliance, IT governance, workload development owners, and workload operations owners. Each role uses its own vocabulary, and each has different objectives and key performance indicators. A single set of content can’t address all audiences effectively.<\/p>\n

Enter the\u00a0Cloud Architect. The Cloud Architect serves as the thought leader and facilitator to bring these audiences together. We’ve designed this collection of guides to help Cloud Architects facilitate the right conversations with the right audiences and drive decision-making. Business transformation that’s empowered by the cloud depends on the Cloud Architect role to help guide decisions throughout the business and IT.<\/p>\n

Each section of the Cloud Adoption Framework represents a different specialisation or variant of the Cloud Architect role. These sections also create opportunities to share cloud architecture responsibilities across a team of Cloud Architects. For example, the governance section is designed for Cloud Architects who have a passion for mitigating technical risks. Some cloud providers refer to these specialists as cloud custodians; we prefer the term cloud guardian<\/em>\u00a0or, collectively, the\u00a0cloud governance team<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Using the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure<\/h2>\n

If you’re new to Azure, begin by reading Get started with the Cloud Adoption Framework<\/a>. This overview provides best practices for your digital transformation, as it walks you through each step of the process.<\/p>\n

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