Cloud Strategy: Workshop 2-3 days

Workshop Activities

– Reviewing Corporate Objectives for Migration

• Discussing the use cases for migrating to cloud
• Discussing the cost implications of migrating to the cloud
• Review of existent SLOs and SLAs (internal/external)
• Review of existent processes and their performance in terms of latency, availability and throughput
• Discussion of KPIs and SLIs used by the company
• Discussion of pain points, challenges and the probable risk areas

– Assessing the Current State

• Discuss and review the current infrastructure
• Review the application stack
• Review and discuss the Capex/Opex costs involved
• Review and discuss the DevOps maturity level
• Review the level of automation and tooling in the organization
• Discuss the security posture of the organization
• Discuss disaster recovery and business continuity capability of the organization
• Review of the compliance and regulatory enforcement in the organization
• Evaluate compute, storage capacity and constraints
• Evaluate network topology and access methods
• Review patch management, directory, IAM systems and authentication situation

– Future state analysis

• Discuss storage and computing required
• Discuss the cloud operating model to be employed
• Discuss the desired level of automation and technological requirements
• Discuss desired security and compliance objectives to be met

– Strategy

• Discuss the cloud strategy roadmap
• Discuss cloud migration and optimization strategy
• Discuss frameworks, methodologies for modernization and cloud transformation

– Pre and Post Migration Costings

• Discuss the best cost strategy for cloud adoption

Audience– CTOs, CIOs,  Directors

Duration– 7 hours per day