Journey to the Cloud


For the first time in history we’ve seen Cloud spend outstrip traditional IT spend* So how are you planning to leverage public cloud?
You’ve probably gone to market and come away from these conversations thinking they all sound similar. Determing a suitable location partnership for your business can be a challenge. It requires deep understand determining the fit to meet your business goals.
If you’re not sure how to best leverage of cloud – you should get in touch.
How to leverage public cloud
The services below complement each other and help you to get to the cloud. You can take these services as individual components or bundled together.
Journey to Cloud

Cloud Discovery
Initial 90 mins meeting to discuss your goals, expectations, timelines and budgets.
Focus is to understand how you are looking to leverage cloud.
We’ll explain the best path to achieve their goal.

Cloud Kick-off
3-5 day workshop focussed on the primary use case for cloud.
1.5 days onsite, whiteboarding customer requirements, discussing cloud options and where possible demoing capability.
We’ll make sure to give you a list of the things we need before our Cloud Kickoff.

Cloud Physics Assessment
Automated tool to assesses your existing VMWare environment.
We’ll provide a detailed analysis of your existing environment, recommendations for improving it and a detailed cost analysis for moving to cloud.
An assessment from AWS is also available.

Cloud Blueprint
24-day project
Organisations looking to build the foundational cloud architecture (admin console, identity, billing, networking, monitoring) and develop a strategy for a “first mover” application.

Cloud Build
Design and deployment of cloud infrastructure in alignment with industry best practices.
Services including data preparation & migration, IaaS templating and configuration of networking, VPC, DR and backup.

Cloud Migration
Moving your existing environment (or part thereof) to cloud, including detailed design, replication of data and cutover.
Ideally use Cloud Build to ensure environment readiness and highest level of success.

Optimise
Once you’re using public cloud – it’s not a set or forget. It’s now time to investigate options to optimise your environment:
Assess new to market capabilities and solutions to meet your requirements.
Cost analysis of varying SaaS and PaaS services Transform IaaS based systems to take advantage of SaaS and PaaS opportunities
Let us manage your public cloud with our world class support team.
We provide you with specific areas of support or can manage your entire environment for you.
How to get in touch with us
Hopefully, we’ve provided you with some valuable insights into public cloud. However, if you want to know more, feel free to call us on 1300 067 382 and we can easily catch up for a coffee and chat.
Before you go, here are other services we provide:
If you’re already using Public Cloud, here are some other services that we provide that you may be interested in:

Networking

Security

Data
*3rd Quarter (US) 2018 Cloud spend was greater than tradition IT spend for the first time in history. Source:IDC
**Leveraging Google Velostrata tooling