Why You Need a Cloud Center of Excellence
The success of your company’s cloud adoption and migrations depends on establishing a Cloud Center of Excellence—a cross-functional team tasked with supporting and governing the execution of the organization's cloud strategy. They do this by:
- Establishing policies and guardrails
- Driving collaboration and adoption of best practices across a range of disciplines
- Evaluating and potentially supporting the implementation of new and existing cloud technologies
Having a CCoE to govern IT infrastructure and build out best practices across the organization enables the rapid deployment of new technologies that will better serve your company’s commercial interests.
Benefits of Establishing a CCoE with VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth
Simplify Financial Management
Report spend by cost center, drive accountability against budgets, and find opportunities to optimize your cloud spend.
Streamline Operations
Create custom policies that automate daily cloud operations, speed decision making, and reduce risk.
Strengthen Security & Compliance
Visualize, investigate, and prevent lateral movements that exploit resource relationships, misconfigurations, & entitlements.
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Best Practices for Forming a Cloud Center of Excellence
From our work, with thousands of organizations at all different stages in their cloud journey, we’ve identified patterns and best practices for building a CCoE with mature cloud management practices – a Cloud Management Maturity Model.
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Areas of Excellence
Cloud Financial Management
The process of continuously optimizing and aligning cloud investments with strategic business initiatives.
Cloud Operations
The process of managing and delivering cloud services that meet the availability, performance, recoverability, quality, and scalability needs of the business.
Cloud Security and Compliance
The process of proactively detecting and remediating vulnerabilities in your cloud environment.
Four Phases of Cloud Management Maturity
No matter what phase you’re in, VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth can help you improve your cloud maturity.
Four Phases of Cloud Management Maturity
No matter what phase you’re in, VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth can help you improve your cloud maturity.
Visibility
Gain visibility into decentralized multi-cloud environments by business groups. Without this, companies struggle to predict and forecast costs, identify security compliance risks, and maintain consistent infrastructure.
Optimization
Optimization is the process of finding opportunities to be more efficient, whether it’s in cost savings, time savings due to operational improvements, or tightening security parameters.
Governance & Automation
Maintain your cloud environment so you can monitor when drift occurs. Once governance policies are established, the next step is to automate response and remediation of these policies, freeing up employee time for more critical tasks.
Business Integration
As the aspirational end state, this phase is about understanding exactly how your cloud strategy drives business transformation and impacts your most pressing corporate goals.
Latest Resources
Find resources to help your organization learn and mature in the cloud.
Benchmark Your Cloud Maturity
Learn the KPIs you should be using to track and analyze your organization’s cloud success.
Cloud KPIs You Need to Measure Success
Find out how your CCoE can better align your people and processes toward successful cloud management and optimization.
Global Assessment of Cloud Management Maturity
Gain insight into how businesses are making decisions in the cloud, including cloud providers, strategies, and solutions
Accelerating Digital Transformation with a Cloud Center of Excellence
Learn how some of Europe’s cloud leaders (BBC, Royal Bank of Scotland, and others) are harnessing a CCoE for effective cloud management.
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