As organizations look to expand their cloud footprints in Azure, many IT teams look to the Azure Cloud Adoption Framework for best practices. Azure landing zones often guide an organizations initial footprint and accounts for scale, security, governance, networking, and identity. As with any framework, turning the design guidelines and principles into tangible components can...
As organizations move to the cloud, they face the challenge of working in multiple environments with varying volume and distribution services. Using the Cloud Operating Model for cloud provisioning, compliance, and management, central IT is shifting from manual workflows to infrastructure as code automation. They are moving from Cloud specific infrastructure workflows to a consistent...
Top 5 things to consider when designing cloud architectures As a technical and business leader of your enterprise in public cloud, there are some serious challenges and questions that need to be answered before going to the bits and bytes. I want to architect in a way that avoids vendor lock-in but how do I...
Top 5 things to consider when designing cloud architectures As a technical and business leader of your enterprise in public cloud, there are some serious challenges and questions that need to be answered before going to the bits and bytes. I want to architect in a way that avoids vendor lock-in but how do I...
Automation has become a critical pillar of the new multi-cloud architecture. DevOps teams have embraced automation, source control and CI/CD pipelines for rapid application deployment, replication, test and update cycles from the early days of cloud. Now, as enterprise IT moves to the cloud, Infrastructure as Code is driving cloud network teams to embrace the...
Kubernetes based workloads are on the rise in both on-premises data centers and in the cloud. On-premises, enterprises leverage tight control over how Kubernetes clusters are created, deployed and networked. However, Kubernetes in cloud, while simplified, introduces challenges because enterprises lose much of the control they are used to. For example, while Kubernetes Container Network...
Kubernetes based workloads are on the rise in both on-premises data centers and in the cloud. On-premises, enterprises leverage tight control over how Kubernetes clusters are created, deployed and networked. However, Kubernetes in cloud, while simplified, introduces challenges because enterprises lose much of the control they are used to. For example, while Kubernetes Container Network...