Cloud Strategy Advisors – Cloud Adoption Made Easy

The Cloud Acceleration Framework

By following our tried and true process we’re able to kick start your cloud adoption, identify motivators, involve stakeholders and ensure success of your journey to the cloud.

Workshop

Two day intensive education where we gather your team to align your technical capabilities with business goals.

Plan

Assess your current business technology stance to quantify the effort and benefits to adopting the cloud.

Build

Deploy your Minimum Viable Cloud with the appropriate security and governance.

Migrate

Now that you have a solid foundation it’s time to push the plan into action.

Iterate

A managed iterative service designed to lower your cost and tighten your processes

The path to cloud-driven service delivery is a journey.

Your itinerary is likely to be different than others’ and will be shaped by your objectives, maturity, risk profile, and other factors. Your business cannot afford the time or money for trial-and-error or experimentation. You need the shortest and the most-effective route to adopt cloud to meet your strategic business objectives.

Workshop

Two day workshop examining the nature of your business and how cloud adoption will affect the organization.
People – How well suited are your existing staff for a technology pivot?
Policies – Will your, or your customer’s, policies and regulatory requirements present any roadblocks to using public clouds?
Process – What does public cloud or hybrid cloud mean for your existing IT processes?
Technology – What, if any, updates need to be made to your technology and workloads to make them cloud ready?

Prepare

4-6 weeks of discovery, assessment, and planning
Perform a gap analysis on current skill sets within IT
Recommend updates to governance policies to allow effective use of public cloud platforms
Provide a process framework that focuses on automation to support future state workloads
Create a public cloud suitability heat map outline for your core services
Define required remediations for effective cloud deployment

Build

8-12 weeks of minimum viable cloud deployment
Develop and build a MVC
Migrate pilot workloads as representative use cases
Validate applications and operations on the MVC
Build initial Migration Factory teams with people, process, playbooks and technology
Verify economic model against larger estate of applications
Map security, compliance and operational approaches against new controls
Position the organization to adopt cloud resources at scale (Phase 4)