What should be Enterprise Strategy in moving applications into cloud.

Following enterprise strategy was drafted for our organization (XYZ) to move applications into Cloud.

 There are two main areas of focus in creating a “Cloud First” initiative within the organization:
1. Developing new applications for the cloud
2. Migrating legacy applications to the cloud

The XYZ organization  Cloud Strategy will leverage a “Cloud First” mentality in the adoption, evaluation, and selection of new technologies within the Organization.  The approach will be used on all new and existing technologies for acceptance within the Organization. XYZ’s “Cloud First” approach for IT modernization shall include a thorough evaluation of Cloud alternatives to IT solutions as new requirements are developed and capabilities are analyzed.  XYZ will adopt the insertion of technology components leveraging Cloud services such as IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS where appropriate.  Additionally, a full alternatives analysis will provide insight as to why a “Cloud First” approach is not applicable prior to use of traditional systems implementation at XYZ.

Developing new applications for the cloud
As businesses within the agency require new applications for mission support, the XYZ should design and develop applications to be deployed directly to the cloud, or build applications with the ability migrate to the cloud in the future. By integrating this “Cloud First” mentality into the design and development of business applications, the XYZ will save time and money as it creates applications and services that are cloud ready.

Migrating legacy applications to the cloud
All legacy applications within the XYZ should be evaluated for their cloud readiness – or the ability to migrate the application to a private or public cloud. Legacy applications that are coming to their end of life should be evaluated for new development for the cloud.

Cloud considerations

When implementing any cloud strategy, the XYZ should abide by the following 5 considerations when selecting a cloud provider.

1 Availability
2 Customer support
3 Compliance requirements
4 Billing
5 Expanding business needs

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