Summary

In this chapter, we focused on how organizations can build a robust, open, and agile foundation for a cloud-ready enterprise that can support current and future business demands. We explored the four stages of a cloud adoption framework, namely assess, plan, deploy, and optimize, and the key constituents in each stage that can provide a structured approach to a cloud transformation initiative. We also discussed, in detail, the various hybrid and multi-cloud deployment patterns that enterprises can adopt, with a particular focus on organizations that have a heavy on-premises IT footprint, acknowledging the challenges with cloud adoption.

As organizations navigate the complexities of hybrid and multi-cloud deployments, an extensible yet secure network architecture is extremely crucial to support the key considerations, such as high availability, optimized performance, and scale. With this in consideration, we reviewed some of the core foundational network architecture blueprints...