Determining Your Cloud Strategy: Planning for Roadmap, Infrastructure, and Deployment

Introduction

• How to determine your cloud strategy

1. 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

2. Identifying a Proof of Concept (POC) Project

• Identifying the right candidate for a POC
• Building your POC team

3. Creating a Center of Excellence (COE)

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

4. Leveraging the Partner Ecosystem

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

5. Designing for Emerging Tech Use Cases

• Designing for GenAI
• Designing for 6G
• Designing for natural language processing (NLP)

Conclusion

• Next steps