Cloud Computing Strategic Assessment

The potential benefits of Cloud Computing for enterprise IT environments is significant: unlimited scalability, just-in-time service provisioning, and better connectivity options that for systems hosted within your own computing environment. However, achieving these benefits may not always be practical or possible given your business requirements, your current technology infrastructure, and the services offered by the Cloud Services Providers.

The Avaleris Cloud Computing Strategic Assessment Service provides an assessment of your enterprise computing requirements to identify which services are candidates for migration to cloud service providers, which could benefit from cloud based architectures, and which are better maintained in-house.

The Avaleris Cloud Computing Strategic Assessment Service provides the following:

• A strategic review of business requirements and core IT systems to identify potential candidates for cloud services;
• Analysis of the feasibility of using a Cloud Service Provider or a Cloud Architecture for any given application or system;
• Analysis of the cost of delivering the identified applications internally versus using a cloud service provider to deliver those services;
• An identification, analysis and recommendation of cloud service providers who could fulfill the identified requirements;
• Assessment of impact on security of information processed by the service;
• Identification of the organizations business risks, should it proceed; and
• Recommendations on which systems and services are the best candidates for migration to a cloud based architecture.

Depending on the nature of the applications or services being assessed, considerations for business impact, user acceptances and usability, stability of proposed services, business availability and viability of the cloud services provider, ability to meet the identified business requirements, security impact, and impact on internal service delivery will be considered as part of the engagement.

The benefits of this service offering are as follows:

• External assistance in evaluating proposed cloud services within the context of your organization’s business requirements;
• Clear identification and articulation of the business risks of using a given cloud computing service;
• Reasonable and practical recommendations to take advantage of cloud service offerings.