Positioned this client to create and execute a strategy for Azure adoption by improving capabilities for business continuity/disaster recovery, software development, and data storage and analytics. This project identified business and technical needs to design an architectural framework that meets short- and long-term objectives.
Trility previously helped create a strategic roadmap for this client. For this engagement, Trility was hired to help define and design a Cloud Enablement Strategy that covered critical areas for initial adoption: identity and access management (IAM), compute, networking, data storage, cost controls, security, and Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery capabilities (BC/DR).
The team identified challenges to address for a successful Azure adoption:
An existing non-enterprise agreement led to delays in provisioning and resource availability
Lack of standards for data or cloud services
Cloud was mostly used for disaster recovery for on-prem
Authorization performed with keys
Existing team members needed training for future-state skills
Hiring new team members for future-state roles
The Trility team worked closely with leadership and stakeholders to assess existing solutions and define requirements for new systems. The team conducted architectural assessments to document existing processes, procedures, and information security implementations and provide next-step recommendations for a Cloud Enablement Strategy. Recommendations included guidance for infrastructure, data systems, and application development patterns for optimal Azure utilization.
Key areas in the solution included:
Understand Azure resources being deployed and configured in a secure, cost-effective manner that is monitored
Knowledge transfer to the client’s team to manage this predictable, repeatable deployment pattern and increase proficiency in cloud services with a sandbox environment
Automate manual work queues
Utilize serverless, auto-scaling, and right-sizing performance tiers to minimize costs
Empower application teams to monitor and troubleshoot cloud environments
Use role-based access control
Trility delivered an Azure Cloud & Enablement Plan to accelerate adoption for the client's team members to evolve and maintain. The client was positioned to deploy applications and services in Azure using modern software best practices, as well as a data lake and data analytics solution.
Designed Azure Roadmap to automate provisioning to resources (eliminating 8-12 hours of setup and troubleshooting per app/service) and decommissioning. Initial environments were stood up with the following attributes:
Address security by leveraging a least-privilege implementation
Enterprise patterns for groups, policies, roles, and subscriptions
Centralized log analytics repository and monitoring and alerting
Enforce policies through code
Control and approval of resource providers
Terraform state management
Azure private network to restrict public access and require VPN access to network
Cost management roles for transparent cost management in the Azure portal
