AI-Ready Azure Landing Zone
A governed Azure foundation for modern workloads, AI services and future cloud growth.
- Management group and subscription strategy
- Network, identity and monitoring foundation
- Policy guardrails and workload onboarding model
Projects
Representative project themes for Microsoft Cloud modernization.
The examples below reflect the types of architecture and modernization initiatives Cal Cloud supports. They are written as capability themes rather than unsupported case-study claims.
Microsoft 365 & Copilot Readiness
A readiness program to prepare Microsoft 365 for secure collaboration and responsible AI productivity.
- SharePoint, Teams, Exchange Online and OneDrive governance
- Oversharing, permissions and lifecycle review
- Purview, labels, retention and data protection alignment
Microsoft Entra ID & Zero Trust Modernization
An identity-first security architecture that supports modern access control across Microsoft cloud services.
- Conditional Access and MFA policy review
- Privileged role and admin model design
- Identity Protection, access reviews and least privilege
GitHub DevOps & CI/CD Enablement
A platform delivery model using GitHub and DevOps practices to standardize build, test and deployment workflows.
- GitHub Actions workflow design
- CI/CD approval and environment controls
- Infrastructure as code and secure secret handling
Azure Security Posture & Defender Alignment
A security posture improvement initiative across Azure, hybrid resources and DevOps workflows.
- Microsoft Defender for Cloud posture review
- Secure score, recommendations and risk prioritization
- Governance model for remediation ownership
SharePoint, Teams & Exchange Online Governance
A Microsoft 365 governance model for collaboration, information architecture and lifecycle management.
- Teams and SharePoint provisioning approach
- Exchange Online hygiene and access alignment
- External sharing, ownership and content lifecycle controls
Resilience, Backup & Disaster Recovery
A resilience design for business-critical Microsoft cloud services and workloads.
- Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery planning
- Recovery objectives, dependency mapping and runbooks
- Monitoring, alerting and failover validation approach
FinOps, Monitoring & Cloud Operations
A cloud operations model focused on cost visibility, telemetry, alerting and continuous optimization.
- Azure Monitor, Log Analytics and dashboards
- Cost allocation, budget alerts and optimization reviews
- Operational standards and service health reporting
Outcome focus
Architecture that connects platforms, people and operations.
Projects are designed to help organizations move from fragmented cloud services to a secure, governed and AI-ready Microsoft Cloud operating model.