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Definition: Managed (Aligned)
A well-defined cloud strategy built on strong organizational support for governance, standardization, and evolved cloud skill sets with an integrated and aligned center of excellence. Orchestration tooling has developed through a unified center of excellence to serve the broader business.
Managed Organizations have:
- Well-defined corporate cloud strategies driven by discrete design principles created by experts.
- Well-defined cloud reference architectures and consumption policies aligned with mature show-back models.
- An IT organization that tends to lead the organization through cloud migrations, while the business users focus on building the functional services required to grow the business.
- IT Service Management platforms in full swing to drive scalable supportability and ease of use.
Typical Attributes:
- Single Preferred Public Cloud Platform or a Small Number of Public Cloud Platforms Delivering Predictable Service-Catalog-Based Services
- Mature Application Development and DevOps Strategies with Well-Understood API Disciplines
- IT Owns the Corporate Cloud Strategy and Policy
- Considered an Industry Bellwether
- Strong Sense of Workload Prioritization and Best Fit across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
- Optimized Cloud Consumption Economic Benefits (Vendor Discounts, etc.)
- Leveraging ITOM, ITSM, and/or CAMP Tools
- Strong Desire to Empower Technical and Business Leaders to Develop Cloud Skills and Thought Leadership throughout the Company
