Welcome to a new episode of
the Azure Enablement Show today. We're going to talk about the Cloud Adoption
Framework Ready methodology and how that helps customers
in their Cloud journey. We also going to have a look
at Azure landing zones. [MUSIC] Welcome back to the Azure
Enablement Show mentioned. My name is Thomas,
I'm here with Dom, and we're going to talk about the Cloud Adoption Framework
Ready methodology. But before we do that, Dom, can you set some context about the Cloud Adoption Framework and where the Ready methodology fits in. Happy to. The Cloud Adoption
Framework for Azure is our comprehensive guidance on how to deliver a successful
Cloud implementation. It's a set of guidance
and processes to help provide structure to
the considerations and decisions needed when
choosing to adopt Cloud services as part of an
organization's IT strategy. That's great. What can we do to help our customers be more successful especially when
we set up that environment? I know that with the
Ready methodology, we set some tools and guidance
for these customers. Absolutely. I mean it's
a super important phase Ready sits at the center of
the Cloud Adoption Framework. It's the point at which
organizations make their first technical decisions and start to shape what the Cloud
environment will look like. Now the crown jewels of
the Ready methodology is Azure landing zones, which are a big part of that
Cloud adoption journey. You mentioned Azure landing zones can you talk a little
bit more about that? >> Now we're continually refining the content in the Cloud
Adoption Framework, and we recently introduced
some new guidance based on what we hear from
customers and partners, to help shape the starting
point for an Azure environments via the design
and the implementation. To start with, we've got the Azure landing
zone conceptual architecture, which is a really
useful starting point for anyone looking to build
out an Azure environment. It shows a great end
state for customers who are looking to build a
sustainable environment that will scale as they do. We include this conceptual
architecture to help customers, but we also recognize that
everyone's requirements are subtly different, so it should be taken and adjusted
where needed to ensure it's a great fit for how organizations
need to deliver their services One of the main challenges
customers are having is actually building these
Cloud architectures, how can we address this? To help make that implementation
step as simple as possible. We highlight reference
architectures and implementations within the
Azure landing zone section, that can help customers
get to a great outcome. Now an example of this is the
Azure landing zone accelerator, which is an Azure portal-based
implementation experience that delivers a fantastic set of opinionated configuration that
distills down a huge amount of experience into
deployment process that is intended to help
customer start quickly. You can find the Azure landing
zone accelerator on the front page of the Azure landing zone section
in the Cloud Adoption Framework. Now that is pretty cool, and
I love that we help customers to pick them up wherever they
are in their Cloud journey. Can you tell us a little bit
more about how we do that? Actually, we have with start, align, and enhance? Absolutely. We've
recently introduced the concept of the journey
to that target architecture, and as more and more
organizations move towards Azure. The point at which customers
referred to our guidance varies. Some are a blank sheet of paper, at the beginning of their journey and wanting guidance from the start, and sometimes we refer
to those as Greenfield. Others have already tried out Azure. Maybe moved or built services and are now at a
point where they want to bring their environment in
closer alignment with our best practices to ensure
they scale effectively. These types of scenarios are
often known as Brownfields. Then finally, there are customers who are progressing
well on their journey. They've got an environment
that works well for them, but maybe they've got
a new requirement, adding additional
security capabilities, for example, and they want to
enhance their landing zone. In each of these three scenarios, we have guidance to help organizations realize
the benefit of Azure. We refer to them as start, align, and enhance. There's content in
the Cloud Adoption Framework Ready methodology today, and we'll be continuing to
add to this moving forwards. This is pretty
awesome, and again, I like how we pick them up wherever they are in
their Cloud journey, and help them to
basically do all that. Another question I have is, now we obviously talked about it, do you have some common examples and common ways
customers are actually using the Ready methodology in the Cloud Adoption
Framework to be successful? Yeah. I mean, when
we think about how organizations take their first
steps into Cloud services, you have to think about it as being similar to constructing a building; the designs or the architecture
are an important step, and starting with
strong foundations is vital to supporting the
building as it grows upwards. The same is true with
Cloud environments, the design and first decisions
set strong foundations to enable safe scalable growth through migrations or innovation
with new services. Now because of that,
the Ready methodology is used by a wide
range of customers, big to small across a number
of industries to help form design decisions and build a fantastic platform with
things like landing zones. We talked a lot about Cloud, and a Cloud journey for a lot of our customers doesn't
really end just Cloud. They are often in a hybrid
or multi-Cloud stage. Do we have some guidance
for them as well? Yeah, that's a great point.
Hybrid and multi-Cloud scenario is becoming increasingly common. It's important to build out
from a strong starting point, like a centralized
management platform, to ensure that
visibility and control. We see a lot of customers use the Ready methodology to
create the Azure footprint as their core and expand
this by using tools like Azure Arc and Azure Migrate
to manage workloads, and ultimately move them into
those Azure landing zones Now this is awesome, and again, working with a lot
of our customers in a hybrid space, I really like that. Now, let's say a customer
decided to go and implement the Ready methodology
and use that what we have there, where do they go next? As organizations
progressed from building their landing zones into using all of those shiny new Azure services, there are two key next steps. The first one, it's about
lifecycle methodologies. As with any IT system,
wherever it is, great operations are as important
as great implementations. We definitely recommend
people read them, manage, govern, and secure methodologies
which focused on the runs day for Cloud
environments: the people, process, and technology
guidance to help organizations run fantastic
environments in Azure. Secondly, a big part of
why customers choose Cloud is because they want to
build their businesses there, and that means a mixture of migrating
and innovating in the Cloud. We've got great
guidance for them too. Our adopt methodology
helps organizations really realize the value of hyperscale
Cloud platforms like Azure, and everything I've mentioned can be found in the Cloud
Adoption Framework. You just mentioned the
Cloud Adoption Framework. If people are now
interested in implementing the Cloud Adoption Framework into Ready methodology, where do they go? For people looking
to jump straight into the Ready methodology and
the Azure landing zones content, go to aka.ms/adopt/ready. For those who want to explore
the other topics I've mentioned, go to aka.ms/adopt, and check out the full set of Cloud Adoption Framework
methodologies. Now something else that's really
important to mention is that this content is created to
address customer needs, so we love feedback. Each page has a feedback button
which sends feedback to us, which is read by an
actual human being, so feel free to tell us what you'd
like to see in this content. Thank you very much,
Dom, that was awesome. Thank you to everyone watching, and make sure you check out the Cloud Adoption
Framework at aka.ms/adopt. [MUSIC]
