This technology-centric mindset results in cloud adoption being seen as an IT project, and not what it really is – part of a fundamental re-orientation of why and how we deliver IT services, driven by a wider digital transformation across the organization and the economy as a whole.ĬAF, in the Strategy Pillar, is clear from the beginning that you need to start from the business strategy, not just the technology strategy. In my experience, seeing the cloud as “just another datacenter (DC)” and the cloud migration as “just another DC migration” is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, reason for failing to achieve your cloud goals. So, let’s dive deeper into each of these three.įirstly, let’s look at the assertion that cloud “isn’t just a technology” and that CAF helps your organization prepare for this transformation. The best practices can act as a “Checklist” to keep your cloud transformation on track.CAF & WAF enable you to “stand on the shoulders of giants” and avoid expensive missteps and wasting time “reinventing the wheel”.CAF helps you understand that cloud isn’t “just a technology” and that your journey to cloud will require a wide-ranging transformation in how you deliver your IT services.(WAF).īut why are they important, and why should you, and your organization, use them on your cloud transformation journey?īased on my experience of 30+ years in IT, including 10 years as CTO of DevOpsGroup (An Amdocs company) and 5yrs as a Microsoft Regional Director, I’ll give you 3 reasons: What are the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure (CAF) and the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework (WAF)? Both are best practice guidance around how to transform your organization to be cloud-centric (CAF) and how to build and manage cloud-hosted applications securely, cost-effectively, etc.
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