A Cloud Center of Excellence Is the Best-Practice Approach to Drive Cloud-Enabled Transformation.

Summary

To ensure successful cloud adoption, organizations should set up a centralized governance function, known as a cloud center of excellence (CCOE). A CCOE sets cloud policy, guides provider selection, and assists with workload placement, with the goal of improving outcomes and managing risks. It should also raise the level of cloud knowledge in the organization, capture and disseminate best practices, and provide governance through policies and cloud management tools. CCOEs have three core pillars: governance, brokerage, and community. Other entities such as a cross-functional cloud computing advisory council and cloud communities of practice can also help drive successful cloud adoption in concert with the CCOE.

Highlights

A cloud center of excellence is the best-practice approach to drive cloud-enabled transformation. ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01gybgcka3ywzsbkh49zgfbs74))

The CCOE is an enterprise architecture function. Its responsibilities include setting cloud policy, guiding provider selection, and assisting with solution architecture and workload placement, with the goals of improving outcomes and managing risks. The CCOE doesn’t have day-to-day operational responsibilities, nor is it a project management organization ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01gybgd5369vkgmjfypgddd6gc))

This function should not be outsourced ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01gybgd7gspjc5vqwq8cqbz2nv))

A CCOE provides central IT with a way to express the CIO’s cloud strategy and provide governance through policies and cloud management tools, as well as gather and disseminate cloud best practices ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01gybgdxk9khmvea65xt555t3g))