Google's Strategy for Integrating Cloud Services
The Google Cloud Adoption Framework is a structured guide designed to help organizations transition smoothly and securely to the cloud. This framework offers best practices and a clear path through different maturity and adoption stages, focusing on people, processes, and technology.
Three Maturity Phases
Organizations start their cloud journey by experimenting with cloud capabilities in the Explore/Proof of Concept phase. This stage involves minimal configurations to understand the platform and its benefits. As organizations progress, they move towards Production Readiness, where they set up production-ready infrastructure following Google Cloud’s best practices, focusing on scalability, security, and compliance. The final phase, Enhanced Security and Compliance, involves advanced configurations aimed at workloads with rigorous security and compliance needs, implementing stricter controls.
Four Adoption Themes
The Google Cloud Adoption Framework focuses on four key thematic areas: Security and Compliance, Operations and Management, Workload Migration and Modernization, and Organizational Change and Culture. The Security and Compliance theme ensures all cloud environments meet organizational and regulatory security requirements. The Operations and Management theme establishes processes and tools for continuous cloud operations, monitoring, and cost management. The Workload Migration and Modernization theme involves moving existing applications to the cloud and modernizing them to leverage cloud-native features. The Organizational Change and Culture theme enables teams through training, governance, and culture shift to cloud-first thinking.
Epics
In cloud adoption frameworks, epics are large bodies of work that can be broken down into manageable projects or tasks. Although the search results do not provide specific epics for the Google Cloud framework, typical epics likely include establishing secure cloud infrastructure, setting up identity and access controls, migrating and modernizing workloads, implementing governance and compliance controls, and enabling continuous optimization and innovation.
To bring an organization into the cloud, there are four themes to excel in: Learn, Lead, Scale, and Secure. In the Tactical phase, individual workloads are in place but there is no solid plan bringing them together with a strategy that builds out towards the future. The Learn theme in the Tactical phase involves self-taught learning with a reliance on third parties, while the Learn theme in the Strategic phase refers to the value and scale of learning programs for enhancing technical teams' skillsets and supplementing them with partners.
In the Tactical phase, the Scale theme involves a slow and risky approach with operations still heavy. On the other hand, the Scale theme in the Strategic phase involves the use of templates for reliable governance without manual review. In the Strategic phase, there is a broader vision that brings together individual workloads, designed and developed with a concern for future needs and scale.
The Secure theme in the Tactical phase refers to a fear of public internet but trust in private network, while the Secure theme in the Strategic phase involves central identity with a hybrid network. The Lead theme in the Tactical phase involves teams by function with a central project manager, while the Lead theme in the Strategic phase refers to a cross-functional cloud team. In the Strategic phase, the risk of change is low and issues are quickly fixed.
To learn more about the Google Cloud Adoption Framework, visit the official whitepaper at https://cloud.google.com/adoption-framework. The new Google Cloud Setup service embodies this framework by providing tailored, guided workflows for foundational cloud environment deployment, enabling organizations to transition smoothly and securely to Google Cloud.
[1] Google Cloud Adoption Framework. (n.d.). Retrieved May 12, 2023, from https://cloud.google.com/adoption-framework
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