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Definition: Defined (Repeatable)
Commitment to cloud services consumption and robust architectures is growing, consuming services to serve low-risk solutions. Organization is becoming more comfortable with cloud services, appreciates how cloud-aware applications can lower costs, and may have departmental accounts that are migrating workloads of low complexity with high business value.
Defined Organizations:
- Are growing skill sets through self-guided education and vendor certifications.
- Have an emerging group of central authorities that act as shared resources.
- Are shifting their focus from running the business to growing the business.
- Are developing workload prioritization practices.
- Have adopted common centralized cloud consumption policies.
- Have some migration projects already in progress.
- Are leveraging cloud management tools for availability, security, and performance.
Critical Issues to Focus On:
- Ensure that proper governance is designed into standard reference architectures;
- Map security standards to compliance;
- Create aligned centers of excellence; and
- Develop methodologies to centrally manage costs back to the lines of business.
