Google Cloud Training in Salem

Ensuring success in the cloud

• The rush to the cloud is accelerating, as the benefits of a move to the cloud increase.
• To make that transition smooth and successful, however, your organization will need to do some careful preparation.
• You’ll want to align your cloud strategy with your larger organizational strategy and to consider also how your business will transform as a result of this technological change.
• And you’ll need solid and widespread advocacy from within the organization. Without such advocacy, all responsibility for generating enthusiasm and momentum for cloud adoption rests with the executive sponsors.
• This top-down approach can be slow to scale, but also fails to embrace the inherent democratization of IT resources that cloud computing offers.
• One way of generating such advocacy is to bring together a group of people from within the organization to provide leadership, best practices, research, support, and training for the move to the cloud.
• With a team like this, it becomes easier to foster engagement and momentum organically, and also to create the infrastructure and the frameworks necessary to become a cloud-first business.
• As the strongest advocates for cloud adoption within the organization, the team helps to ignite enthusiasm.
• They can also serve as a catalyst for innovation.
• They will find new ways to achieve the desired goals — and deeply attuned to the business strategy as they are, the initiatives and pilot projects that this group develops are more likely to evolve into endeavors that position the organization for long-term success.
• Foster engagement and momentum organically, and create the infrastructure and frameworks to become a cloud-first business The Cloud Center of Excell

The Cloud Center of Excellence

• Building an internal team to drive success is a natural inclination.
• At Google, we’ve seen this team called many different things. Cloud Services, Innovation Council, Cloud Engineering, even Cloud Platform.
• We refer to a team so organized and directed as a Cloud Center of Excellence, or a Cloud COE. A well-appointed Cloud COE begins with a small team who understands the Google Cloud Adoption Framework and is able to use it as a guide for implementing cloud technology aligned with a business’s goals and strategy.
• The Cloud COE team then becomes the conduit for transforming the way that the other internal teams serve the business in the transition to the cloud.
• The Cloud COE team accelerates cloud adoption by:
•  Driving momentum across the organization
•  Developing reusable frameworks for cloud governance
•  Managing cloud knowledge and learning
•  Overseeing cloud usage and plans for scale
•  Aligning cloud offerings to the larger organizational strategy A Cloud COE is not a static entity. Rather, it continually evolves to keep pace with the innovation associated with adopting the cloud. Executive leadership should design the Cloud COE as an adaptive structure that evolves as the needs of the organization do.

The Google Cloud Adoption Framework

• A successful Cloud COE is guided by the Google Cloud Adoption Framework, which builds a structure on the rubric of people, process, and technology that produces actionable programs within the themes of Learn, Lead, Scale, and Secure.
• This framework is informed by Google’s own evolution in the cloud and many years of experience helping customers.
• The Cloud COE is the team that drives the cloud maturity of the organization forward and sets the agenda of the activities articulated in the Google Cloud Adoption Framework

A deeper dive into the Cloud Center of Excellence

• Running a Cloud COE is a full-time job in a large organization.
• Its team members are aligned with the business strategy.
• They collaborate with the rest of the organization in achieving their goals.
• And they are fully committed to the success of this move to the cloud. The team that makes up the Cloud COE must also be cross-functional.
• As they will have the authority to make decisions regarding architecture and process, they will need expertise in all things cloud.
• The characteristics and focus of a Cloud COE Central to the Cloud COE’s role is setting the foundation for a successful cloud migration and encouraging a culture of collaboration and knowledge sharing.
• Cloud COE team members advise on and implement solutions, providing both thought leadership and hands-on support.
• In practical terms, a Cloud COE can be established based on practices, workstreams, processes, tools, or other significant structuring factors.
• As it is the needs, the priorities, and the capabilities of the business that drive the structure and scope of the Cloud COE, each Cloud COE will look a little different. And the current state of cloud maturity of the team will drive its orientation and activities.
• Across organizations, however, there are several characteristics that successful Cloud COEs will have in common: