Cloud Services Planning and Design Training

• Apply relevant design processes and techniques when producing an effective cloud infrastructure design.
• Create a cloud infrastructure design that addresses business requirements and constraints that were identified during an assessment.
• Know the advantages, problems, and considerations of different cloud technologies as well as their significance in meeting a business requirement.
• Develop a cloud infrastructure design that includes components such as cloud management, consumer resources, elasticity, metering, hybrid capabilities, and disaster recovery.
• Understand the  Governance, Organization, Finance and Technology (GFOT) of cloud services
• Planning and design techniques for cloud services
• Importance of the service catalog, templates, service level agreements, orchestration, provisioning, and automation when building and deploying cloud services

• Cloud Computing
• AWS Solution Architect - Associate Level Training

• Five or more years of design experience in compute, network, and storage
• Understanding of cloud delivery & service models and as the services lifecycle
• DELLEMC Information Storage and management
• DELLEMC Cloud Infrastructure and Services.

Module 1: Understanding IT Transformation and Cloud Services

• Review common IT challenges that often exist even after a cloud adoption has occurred and explain   what it means for IT to provide business value.
• List benefits of several common industry IT transformation models.
• Identify the ITaaS model plus the business, cultural, and technical reasons why organizations are adopting ITaaS or a similar model for standing up cloud services.
• Define cloud services and describe how ITaaS supports them in the context of governance, finance, organization, and technology.
• Identify general planning and design steps.

Module 2: Technology Planning for Cloud Services

• Identify innovative practices, tools, and technologies such as DevOps, Microservices, and open source that influence the creation of cloud native applications and cloud services.
• Describe considerations and analysis of workloads and assess application profiles.
• Identify various back-end technology processes and tools that might be helpful for delivering cloud services.
• List orchestration and automation characteristics as critical features for delivering cloud services. Recognize the importance and benefits of measuring and reporting.
• Define the central role of a service catalog for delivering cloud services.

Module 3: Governance Planning for Cloud Services

• Define the various types of governance and their relevance to cloud services.
• Summarize important considerations for the three components of GRC: governance, risk management, and compliance.
• Specify various considerations related to security and trust for cloud services.

Module 4: Financial Planning for Cloud Services

• Identify the financial considerations for IT and its support of services for an ITaaS transformation.
• Explain service funding and define chargeback functions and models.
• List economic drivers for IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS service models as well as service costing and pricing.

Module 5: Organizational Planning for Cloud Services

• Describe the challenges facing organizations that need to deliver cloud services.
• Discuss the organizational considerations when transitioning to cloud services within an ITaaS model.
• Identify new roles, skills, and required competencies.

 Module 6: Services Creation and Management

• Outline general and tactical strategies for offering cloud services as well as general considerations for service design.
• Describe service deployment steps, considerations, and models.
• Explain the significance of the service catalog, templates, service level agreements, orchestration, provisioning, and automation when building and deploying services.
• Summarize the importance of collecting measurements for service operations and management.

Module 7: Cloud Services Trends and Futures

• Discuss emerging trends impacting businesses.
• Describe how business is being digitized more than ever before.
• Explain how cloud services are driving business value and achieving positive outcomes.

Module 8: Planning and Design Review

• Develop a cloud services design and present this to the audience.
• Demonstrate how the cloud services design meets the business requirements and constraints that were identified during the assessment process.