Cloud Strategy and Migration

Many organizations today are adopting cloud computing for the cost-cutting and speed-to-market benefits. In the end, however, they will not reap maximum results unless they create a roadmap for integrating cloud technologies in a broader IT strategy. The concept of cloud is simple, but determining how cloud best fits with your organizational needs can be incredibly complex. From strategic mapping to identifying the right vendor collaborators, there are hundreds of decisions to be made.

W&G Cloud Strategy and Migration services are designed to help you not only sort through the complex choices presented by the many vendors, services and technologies in the market, but also help youy integrate your new IT landscape for real business value attainment. We help you understand the trade-offs between elastic IT service models, crafting a strategy to integrate internal and external capabilities in a cost-effective manner in order to meet your value-oriented goals, while intelligently mapping the inherent risks to your organization’s governance and tolerance frameworks.

Value-Driven Goals

value-driven goals

Some of the common goals of W&G Cloud Strategy and Migration engagements are to:

  • Accelerate time-to-market for application deployments
  • Reduce OPEX while increasing capabilities
  • Enable cost transparency for holistic IT resource consumption
  • Incorporate governance into everyday operational procedures
  • Minimize business and operational impacts and risks of cloud adoption
  • Rationalize application portfolio for cloud readiness
  • Improve quality of service for business and end-consumer users
Major Risks

major risks to value

Cloud adoption efforts often fall short of expectations because they failed to plan for associated risks. Among those risks are:

  • Misalignment of cloud strategy and business objectives
  • Unmanaged vendors (too much trust, not enough verification)
  • Legacy IT service management and operational processes
  • Inadequate insight into application cost structures
  • Large application portfolios leads to poor candidate selection
  • Lack of business and application assessment leads to bad decision making
  • Insufficient upfront planning, resulting in unnecessary risks, costs, and unintended business impacts
Issues Addressed

issues addressed

Our Cloud Strategy and Migration practice ensures that the common issues are addressed, such as:

  • Cloud adoption program strategy and roadmap
  • Application business criticality and quality-of-service requirements
  • Criteria for vendor and product selection process
  • Lack of insight into internal and true vendor costs
  • Changes to procedures and governance
  • IT resources skills and capabilities
Delivery

delivery and activities

Some of the deliverables and activities of a Cloud Strategy and Migration engagement may include:

  • Strategy development, inlcuding core cloud team, business objectives and adoption principles, and scope
  • Business and application assessments
  • Application dependency and interdepency mapping
  • Reference and solution architecture designs
  • Proof of Concept and pilot program management and execution
  • Migration planning and benchmarking
  • New IT workflow and process maps
  • Technical engineering implementation