While many enterprises have successfully adopted specific SaaS solutions, and some have even managed to implement a cloud-first strategy for new platforms, many struggle to get the maximum value the cloud has to offer. Usually, this is because most organizations mistakenly believe that plainly moving existing IT infrastructure to the cloud is synonymous with digital transformation. Unfortunately, migrating legacy systems to the cloud does not guarantee results.
In fact, the opposite often results, with poorly constructed cloud architectures causing more problems than they solve. That’s because existing IT infrastructure was created using an on-premises paradigms and are configured to run at fixed capacity across several datacenters. Plainly migrating them to the cloud does not provide them with the full scalability and agility the cloud has to offer. Additionally, most IT teams do not have the training, expertise, or public cloud adoption framework necessary to rebuild and modernize applications to get the most out of a cloud investment.
The Cloud Adoption Framework brings together cloud adoption best practices from Microsoft and our extensive industry experience. It provides a set of tools, guidance, and narratives that would help shape technology, infrastructure, and people strategies for driving your desired business outcomes during your cloud adoption effort.
