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Cloud Readiness Assessment
Make smarter IT decisions with instant data driven insights.
Supporting you on your cloud journey
Cloud Readiness Assessments help organisations to:
- Provide a holistic view of the IT landscape and tech stack
- Identify costs and risks associated with migration and adopting public cloud
- Provide clarity and visibility so organisations can maximise their infrastructure security and compliance.
How we do things
We assess your entire application landscape and related areas including financial, business, operational and environmental factors.
Following our cloud readiness assessment you will receive a report that provides guidance on the suitability of existing applications to move to the public cloud, areas of potential quick wins and budgetary figures for migration.
What does the assessment cover?
- A review of your application architecture and lifecycle
- A benchmark of your existing application services
- Analysis on the suitability for public cloud
- A report on costs to create, migrate and operate a public cloud
How can a Cloud Readiness Assessment support my organisation?
Assess internal IT resources
Assessing the internal capabilities of the IT team is key to understand if an organisation has the right expertise, tools and technologies, and bandwidth to support the migration transition.
Review the existing IT infrastructure
A cloud readiness assessment highlights essential information on the data storage, network, on-premise hardware, and other essential information to provide a clear indication of priorities. Providing an impact assessment and business case justification on the technology requirements and costs associated with migrating application.
Prioritise the security requirements
Security and privacy of client data while migrating to the cloud is an essential consideration. Assessing the existing security mechanisms compliance requirements should be prioritised to understand potential cloud vulnerabilities.
Support your business needs for cloud migration
A Cloud Readiness Assessment helps to support the business need for migration by outlining key drivers of cloud adoption, improve scalability, increase productivity, reduce costs and, improving security.
Assess your operational readiness
Operational readiness helps determine how prepared, resourced and capable an organisation is to transition to the cloud and manage the operational aspects after the migration. It’s also worth assessing how the team and can further support after the transition this is where we can also help.
Business Benefits
Our solution
Create the right environment
Getting you ready to receive enterprise workloads, including networking, security, backups, monitoring and identity and access.
Assist with migration
Supporting you with migration application services to the public cloud across IaaS, PaaS and SaaS.
Provide on-going support
Providing you with continuous operational support and feedback once workloads are live.
Contact us
Book a free Cloud Readiness Assessment.
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