Cloud is becoming a popular choice for organizations seeking to become agile, reduce cost and ensure lean IT operations. However, with many new and established players in the market, most organizations are unaware of the cloud provider choices and services. This not only makes the cloud solution unknown but could present for a difficult cloud migration journey. Without proper due diligence, cloud migration programs can prove expensive in the long term, limiting the ability of organizations to achieve real benefits, agility, scalability and portability.
The current breed of cloud service providers ranges from the oligopoly of global giants to a rapidly evolving cluster of local providers. However, despite the buzz around cloud migration, there is an alarming trend of inadequate due diligence, particularly for non-functional aspects. Low entry barriers, nominal initiation costs and sales to aspirational clients by cloud providers coupled with newly formed IT cloud strategies frequently result in cloud migration decisions being made without crucial due diligence.
Cloud Readiness and Migration Assessment
Organizations looking to implement cloud migration solutions must first evaluate how the planned migration will affect non-functional aspects within their enterprise. Acumen's assessment framework provides some key criteria to be considered before planning a cloud migration journey:
- Local Data Center Availability
- Security
- Resilience
- Data Storage and Archival
- Change and Configuration management, continuous improvement and continuous delivery tools
- Reputable Service Provider
- System Availability Performance and Required System Component Availability
- Adaptability
- Portability
- 24/7 Support and SLAs
Acumen's Cloud One assessment framework will help organizations evaluate non-functional attributes before migrating to cloud. These readiness attributes include local data center availability, security, resilience, data storage and archival, configuration management, continuous improvement and continuous delivery tools, accreditation and auditing, wide availability of solution components, adaptability, portability, and SLAs. While the above framework is not exhaustive, additional criteria will be appended to this framework during assessment and engagement with your projects. In addition we can help you with the migration effort from beginning to end, where we will transition the cloud infrastructure management to your team after ensuring you have a solid environment and that your team is effectively trained and all processes and procedures are fully documented.
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Cloud Alternatives
Cloud computing business solutions from global providers such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web
Services enable you to put costly IT resources in the cloud and perhaps realize cost savings from the migration.
In some case cloud solutions may not be for your organization or particular project because of lack of cost-benefits.
After assessing various costs from maintainance service, human resource, project size, bandwidth, energy and other
attributes, if the cost of cloud services have no merit for your organization or your project infrastructure needs
alternative non-cloud resources, Acumen will work with you to acheive your goal. The Cloud one team will still help
evaluate to see if a cloud computing environemnt or a hybrid landscape could serve your needs better through our
assessments.
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