Today’s businesses have a range of on-premise applications, databases, networks, storage and infra challenges. Some of them are - difficult to enhance, expensive to maintain, costly to upgrade, and inhibit business agility. Due to these shortcomings, enterprises are moving their applications to the cloud. Generally, a cloud readiness assessment involves five basic steps to help overcome these issues. It includes identification of the business cases and scope for data migration, evaluation of in-house resources availability, it also checks infrastructure requirements. Additionally, it analyzes security requirements and also checks timeline and budget.
Cloud Intel is a cloud assessment program that helps you make a decision of what data to migrate to the cloud. This tool gives you a roadmap and guides you to optimize your overall cloud journey.
Cloud Intel assesses the servers, applications, databases, data center, and storage to generate a report that provides you with a detailed analysis of your existing infrastructure to move your workloads from on-premise to cloud or from cloud to cloud. A cloud readiness assessment is a process where you can find your applications and data to determine if your workload can be moved to the cloud with minimum impact on operational costs. It saves your overall CapEx and OpEx costs. The assessment helps you gain a better understanding of what you should do to make sure of seamless cloud migration.
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Cloud Intel also provide assessment to infra modernization, data modernization, application modernization, cloud modernization, data warehouse migration, and cybersecurity assessment. Once the need for modernization of any app, infra, DB, VMs, network gets done, Cloud Intel helps to provide inventory details through graphical representations, TCO reports about those modernized applications.
Some of the benefits of using Cloud Intel are:
The various assessment deliverables include Infrastructure and Application Discovery, Inventory Analysis, Performance and Metrics, Application Inventory, Network Dependencies, Cloud Readiness Assessment, Delivery Modeling (IaaS, PaaS, and CaaS), Remediation Scoring (IaaS), Software Reports, and Financial Analysis.
1. Identify the business cases and scope for data migration
Organizations must know the reason to migrate to the cloud and to what degree. They should also know the business cases to migrate to the cloud that must include cost avoidance for replacements of hardware and maintenance of data centers, resource scaling for simplicity, faster accessibility of resources, and improved disaster recovery and data resiliency with excellent backup services. Cloud Intel helps you to discover and assess your IT inventory to move your workload to the cloud.
2. Evaluate in-house resources availability
Next, organizations must evaluate their resources. What funds are available? How skilled is the IT team? In order to achieve optimum results, the IT team must be well-trained on cloud migration strategies and must also train other members of the team. This can reduce the huge cost of recruiting new employees. With Cloud Intel, you can save on operational expenditures (OpEx). OpEx is the cost that Cloud Intel provides to make an infrastructure investment upfront. Using this, you only pay for those resources as and when you need them.
3. Check infrastructure requirements
A comprehensive research needs to be done in an organization to determine what applications and workloads need to be moved to the cloud. Cloud Intel helps assess resources and workloads that are required to move to the cloud. Also, what data needs to be completely discarded. Keeping this in mind, an organization knows its requirements for future usage in the cloud environment.
Planning how the applications will be moved is also an important task while performing a cloud readiness assessment. With the new architecture, applications will need a change too. Changes can be minor or major that rely on the type of service whether infrastructure-as-a-service or platform-as-a-service.
4. Analyze security requirements
An organization’s security on the cloud depends upon government and industry regulations. It all affects what data is moved on the cloud. During such cases, organizations must have an IT inventory to have a graphical view of what is where. Also, organizations must know the security standards that need to be applied to different categories of data.
Few security measures like web application firewalls, identity & access management, encryption, and decryption must be carried out while performing cloud readiness assessment. With Cloud Intel, it is easy to do so.
5. Check timeline and budget
Having a set timeline is as crucial as having data for migration. Having a timeline helps to keep track of the progress being made and the reasons for setbacks. Budgets must also be aligned with the business cases for data migration. This involves the total cost of ownership calculations, the services involved in migration, licensing costs, migration training, and other crucial factors. Cloud Intel takes care of all of this.
Our assessment tool, Cloud Intel is a high-ranking and scoring model that provides solutions to many organizations and enterprises. At Click2Cloud, our role is to resolve all your cloud issues and provide maximum output that builds trust to enhance your present as well as your future cloud needs. Thinking Cloud? Think Cloud Intel!
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