Building Your Cloud By Design: Our Multicloud Adoption Framework

One thing I tell colleagues, customers, and partners over and over again: every organization is at a different phase in their cloud journey. That was true a decade ago, and it's still true today. Some organizations have fully embraced a "cloud-smart" model, placing new workloads, applications, and functions in the best-fit cloud platform-on-premises or public cloud. Others started with a private cloud and have yet to integrate additional cloud platforms into the mix.

The Dell Professional Services team has helped thousands of customers put their cloud strategies into action. Along the way, we built a Multicloud Adoption Framework that guides you from the beginning stages of strategy through implementation, adoption, and scale. I've written about this framework before in previous blog posts, and we've continued to refine it with real-world experience.

Multicloud adoption framework eBook

We've taken the same framework our services teams use and turned it into an easy-to-understand, interactive ebook. It walks you through what matters at each phase of the journey. Think of it as our playbook for helping customers succeed with cloud. And yes-the "secret ingredient" is the expertise of our amazing Dell Professional Services teams, who've led thousands of successful outcomes.

The eBook is organized into four phases: Strategy, Implement, Adopt, and Scale. In each section, you'll see the actions that drive success. Prefer visuals? You'll find illustrations that bring the concepts to life. Short on time? We've got you covered there too, with a condensed video version to get you up to speed fast.

How does the MCAF ebook work?

I'll admit it: I love power tools-especially my chainsaw. I've never met a branch I didn't want to trim. Last year, while cutting wood, the chain popped off. I thought, "How hard can this be?" An hour later, I finally checked the manual and realized I'd missed the simplest step: adjusting the chain tension knob. Thirty seconds later, problem solved.

The eBook is kind of like an instruction manual for taking a cloud smart approach. It lays out the what, why, and how of our Multicloud Adoption Framework. You'll see what to focus on in each phase, with illustrations and checkpoints along the way to confirm you're on track. Like any instruction manual, it will take you through each step of the journey to cloud success. From setting your strategy, to implementing the platform, to driving adoption by your internal cloud consumers, and finally to scaling with continuous improvement. Not everyone starts in the same place in their cloud journey, and that's fine-use the eBook as a reference, regardless of whether you're just getting started, or are well down the path. If you're further along, jump straight to the sections where you need the most help.

Our Dell Professional Services team uses this framework in all customer engagements where we're helping organizations build/refine their cloud(s). It reduces risk because the methodology is proven. It also boosts efficiency-we know what to expect and what to do at every phase of the journey.

Start your journey today

Our Multicloud Adoption Framework has been used to help some of the largest cloud transformations out there. We've refined it with firsthand lessons-what works, what doesn't, and how to reach successful outcomes with less risk. Our Services experts are skilled across the Dell hardware portfolio, the major ecosystem vendors, and in all phases of our framework, helping customers in some of the most complex, large-scale cloud transformation journeys.