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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.

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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.

Output: Meeting notes and timeline

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.

Output: Solution summary document, high level design and suggested next steps

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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.

Output: Assessment portal and final report

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.

Output: Detailed blueprint document

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.

Output: Build document detailing configuration

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.

Output: Detailed migration plan the migration tooling is free**

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

An effective cloud solution is only as good as the supporting network strategy. We design and consult on a range of network connectivity options to meet your business objectives.

Security

You expect your cloud environment to be secure. We can assist in both the design and implementation of appropriate strategies and solutions, leveraging both native and third-party tools to secure your cloud environment.

Data

Google offers a wide range of services around big data and analytics. However, it is essential to have your data ready to take advantage of these services. We provide solutions to migrate, cleanse and mask your 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

Journey to the Cloud