Cloud Concepts: Determining Your Cloud Strategy

Cloud Concepts: Determining Your Cloud Strategy

33mIntermediate2025-02-13

Authors

Rashim Mogha

Rashim Mogha

Best-Selling Author, Technology Leader

Course details

In this era of digital transformation, the move to cloud is inevitable. In this course, instructor Rashim Mogha walks you through several critical steps in determining your cloud strategy and guiding your company's digital transformation. Rashim explains hybrid and multicloud deployment models, then goes into how to make sure your stakeholders understand how the move to cloud will affect the business. She covers how to have roadmap discussions and create a roadmap. She helps you determine how to pick the right project for proof of concept and how to ensure that you have a team that is open to change. She explains the roles and responsibilities of the Center of Excellence (COE) team, then explores how to create a robust enablement plan for the COE. In conclusion, she teaches you about how to vet potential cloud partners and how to decide if you want MSP to be a part of your cloud journey strategy.

Skills covered

Cloud FoundationsCloud ComputingDeep Dive (X:Y)

Concepts

Introduction

  • How to determine your strategy

Starting the Journey with the Cloud

  • Defining the need to move to the cloud
  • Understanding cloud deployment models
  • Evaluating sustainability
  • Educating your stakeholders
  • Creating a future roadmap

Identifying a Proof of Concept (POC) Project

  • Identifying the right candidate for POC
  • Identifying the POC team

Creating a Center of Excellence (COE)

  • Defining the roles and responsibilities of the COE
  • Building the COE team
  • Enabling the COE

Leveraging the Partner Ecosystem

  • Finding the right partner
  • Evaluating the need for a managed service provider (MSP)

Designing for Emerging Tech Use Cases

  • Designing for GenAI
  • Designing for 6G
  • Designing for NLP

Conclusion

  • Next steps
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