SNP’s Azure Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure is proven guidance that’s designed to help you create and implement the business and technology strategies necessary for your organization to succeed in the cloud. It provides best practices, documentation, and tools that cloud architects, IT professionals, and business decision makers need to successfully achieve their short- and long-term objectives.

Businesses know that shifting to the cloud can reduce costs, boost performance, and enable them to scale based on rising (or falling) traffic. However, reports show that in 2019, just 22% of enterprise primary workload deployments were on the public cloud. The top issue: complex legacy apps that are resistant to modernization. 

Common issues facing IT teams today include:

Enterprises today are adopting machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) at a rapid pace to stay ahead of their competition, deliver innovation, improve customer experiences, and grow revenue. However, the

It is anticipated, by 2023, the Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) market is expected to grow by 29%, as more and more companies reap the benefits of a cloud workspace. But what exactly are these benefits and how do they differ from those currently seen on-premises? 

DevSecOps (Development, Security & Operations) is a transformational shift in the digitally evolving IT world which incorporates secure culture, practices, and tools to drive visibility, collaboration, and agility of security into each phase of the DevOps pipeline.

When businesses pursue a hybrid cloud strategy, they get a combination of customizability and security of private cloud with the scalability and flexibility of the public cloud.

In the ever-changing IT landscape, Citrix is pushing the limits of what’s possible for our customers and partners. It’s exciting how we’re helping them use our technologies, from moving workloads to the cloud, thinning down endpoints, and tweaking our ICA protocol to maximize graphics performance.

In a recent press release, Microsoft announced that it is expanding its partnership with artificial intelligence research company OpenAIto bolster its supercomputing cloud AI technology. In addition to working together to develop new cloud technologies, Microsoft is investing $1 billion in OpenAI.

Do these thoughts describe your company's Azure cloud adoption..

• "Cloud knowledge is essential for IT and Development on-boarding"
• "Our teams need to get up to speed quickly"
• "We don't know where to start"

If so, you probably need a facilitated training on Azure cloud technologies, and the means to this end is a Azure Customer Immersion Experience, or CIE for short.

"How can we use Azure Cloud to modernize our applications" is among top asks we hear at SNP from our customers. There are various motivations for the question, from an interest in re-hosting legacy applications running on on-premise servers to greenfield application development initiatives. The person posing the question knows that cloud technology has something to offer, but the territory is unexplored and mysterious.