Tangent Solutions works with your organisation to dissect the business strategy alongside the goals your business wants to achieve by moving to the cloud. This process is guided by the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF). Essentially, a CAF assists businesses with digital transformation and accelerates business outcomes. On this basis, no two CAF outcomes will be identical.
Tangent designs, architects, implements and migrates workloads with your specific business requirements in mind. Ultimately, cloud adoption should support long-term strategic business goals.
Develop a Well-Architected Cloud with the Right Partner
This needs to be done with diligence and gravitas to ensure the security of the perimeter and networks of the cloud. A business must do its due diligence during the cloud pre-adoption phase in order to benefit from migrating to the cloud.
In relation to the framework’s evolution, successful implementation is based on the skills and expertise of the people who implement them. Thus, selecting a partner with the right skills and knowledge is imperative to achieving optimal cloud performance.
Stages & Methodologies that Guide the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)
A business that seamlessly operates in this environment is classed as a digital organisation. Building a digital business requires various building blocks in the form of technology, methodology, supporting process change and best practice implementation.
The Four Stages of Cloud Adoption Include:
- Define the Strategy
- Plan
- Ready
- Adopt
This guidance aligns to various stages and iterations of the typical cloud adoption life cycle, ensuring easy access to the right guidance at the right time. Tangent offers a CAF Quick Start and CAF Accelerate to enable organisations to start their cloud journey. The full Cloud Adoption Framework stages are explained at a high-level below.
The CAF Stages are underlined by the following Continuous Principles:
- Governance and Security
- Management
Security, governance, and management principles are fundamental to cloud environments. These must be considered at every step of the cloud journey. As such, Tangent proactively implements various technologies, methodologies, practices, and processes to ensure governance and security are built into the foundation of the cloud estate, alongside the enablement of operational monitoring and management. This ensures a smooth transition to the cloud and accelerates the realisation of promised value.
1. Strategise
By ensuring that the business strategy and context are well understood, guidelines are defined, and subsequent activities and decisions are aligned to achieving the identified business outcomes. By understanding the business’s desired outcomes, Tangent ensures that the correct workloads are selected, technology is purposefully identified, and the cloud adoption plan is well-informed to align with the business.
2. Plan
Moreover, an organisation needs to assess its current human capital and plan to re-skill its IT teams to readily manage and maintain IT assets in the cloud. It is important to understand that the cloud requires a specific set of skills, as its fundamental operational and management principles are different to on-premise ecosystems. Utilising this information, we develop the cloud adoption plan.
3. Ready
In this phase, Tangent ensures that a well-architected Landing Zone is architected and lays the foundation for cloud deployments. This involves implementing policies, infrastructure, and configuration as code, this enables and results in continuous security and governance. The Landing Zone ensures a secure, high-performing, resilient, and effective infrastructure for applications and workloads into the future.
All these activities paint a picture of what the ‘to-be state’ of the cloud environment will encompass and the projected costs while identifying possible resource options to be used for the migration as well as deployment. The outcome of this phase is significant, as the organisation can now safely manage and govern deployments within a secure environment
4. Adopt
During the assessment, we review and contextualise the current estate utilising the Rs of rationalisation. Based on various factors, the business’s current environment will be prioritised, migrated and modernised accordingly.
Migration refers to the purposeful selection of compute for rehosting, retaining or retiring in the Cloud, i.e. a ‘Lift and Shift’. In contrast, modernisation pertains to refactoring or rearchitecting within the cloud environment.
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Tangent will guide your business on its cloud journey utilising the Cloud Adoption Framework.