How then do you prioritize the migration of applications to the cloud? To understand what applications should be moved, when, and how, it’s important to create a wellattributed catalog of applications managed by IT. Then, the relative importance of each attribute (say, business criticality or amount of system integration) can be weighted and the prioritized list can be built

Most people now agree that the cloud has become a core element of any enterprise’s technology strategy. Indeed, in the past few years we have seen the conversation around cloud adoption move from “if” to “when” and “how.” It is, in short, a fact of life. 

What if you were able to achieve both efficiency and innovation in all the business domains and applications across your entire portfolio? What if you could take advantage of the cloud and all of its resources and features to get a “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts” effect? With a good roadmap to lead the way, you can. This chapter covers what it means to move your enterprise to the cloud. We’ll provide examples and learning experiences from Microsoft’s own journey, as well as from those of our customers

There is always a first cloud application. In every IT organization, some brave soul will either move an existing application to the cloud or create a new one there. In so doing, this person will gain an understanding— beyond all the hype—of what developing, testing, deploying, and maintaining a cloud application is all about.

When Microsoft IT began its cloud migration journey in 2009, it followed a similar process. First, it cataloged its operating system instances and application workloads. This assessment included both quantitative data that was mostly retrievable by tools as well as qualitative data that was partially retrievable by tools and also required examination by both the operations team and the business liaison team. This latter category of metadata included relationships, dependencies, and integration points.

Many IT organizations rely on the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) framework for service management and operations. Over the years the ITIL has proven a useful set of practices for IT Service Management (ITSM) and for aligning IT investments and operations with business goals. Among its benefits, advocates and practitioners of ITIL point to increased reliability, uptime, and predictable costs.

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