Are You Ready for the Cloud?
Is your company evaluating cloud computing to reduce your IT costs and increase operational agility? If so, you're not alone. Organizations are unsure how to initiate their cloud projects, which could cause them to miss chances to capitalize on business opportunities.
A Cloud Readiness Assessment from the MindStream Cloud Transformation Team arms organizations with the Cloud Readiness Assessments for enterprise businesses to evaluate and help you with your cloud roadmap.
Failing to prepare can set the stage for failure.
Many organizations have failed to achieve success with cloud computing, because they failed to develop a cloud strategy rooted in the definition and delivery of IT services linked to business outcomes.
Outlining and defining key components such as:
- Identify the cloud-computing-related IT services you will offer or procure.
- Document the internal processes that will be affected by the identified cloud services.
- Map applications and workloads to the associated cloud services.
A Cloud Readiness Assessment can help answer these questions and more.
Questions About the Cloud
Many business owners struggle to answer key questions about moving to the cloud. Is it the right move? Will the cloud really help me reduce operating costs? Will the cloud make a significant impact on my organization's output?
Have more technical questions? A cloud assessment from ba2 team helps answer all of your most important questions about moving to the cloud, including:
- How would my company benefit from the cloud?
- Which workloads could move and for what benefit?
- Can I integrate my current environment with the cloud?
- How does my current depreciation schedule fit into this picture?
- How do the SLAs stack up against our current capability?
- Which cloud providers fit our way of doing business?
- How does my current staff fit into the plan?
- Which cloud providers fit our way of doing business?
- How do we communicate this internally without scaring everyone?
What Does a MindStream Cloud Readiness Assessment Include?
At MindStream, we offer cloud readiness assessments in three tiers: Lite, Standard, and Total.
Lite Package - A Lite cloud assessment from ba2, answers two of the most important aspects of moving your organization to the cloud. These include:
- Work Load Assessment
- A complete migration strategy
Standard Package - Our standard cloud assessment package includes a customized workload assessment and migration strategy. Additionally, the Standard cloud assessment package includes:
- Depreciation analysis
- Team portal with weekly status reviews
Total Package - The Total Package is the ultimate in cloud readiness. You will receive the same offers as our Standard Package and also receive:
- Staff skills analysis
- Workflow review
The cloud experts at MindStream excel at helping you craft a customized plan for implementing the cloud that goes beyond the technical design and migration plan.
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