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Cloud Strategy

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Overview

Cloud Strategy

Virtustream offers a full complement of cloud strategy and professional services. Through these professional service offerings, we partner with your organization to provide expertise in selecting a cloud strategy, accelerate cloud adoption, simplify migration and design business-grade cloud architectures.

Critical Path Questions Addressed:

  • What cloud strategy should I adopt to transform my environment over time?
  • Which applications should I put in the cloud and what benefit would I gain?
  • How do we migrate our applications?
  • What cloud solution is best for our requirements?
  • How can we secure and backup our data?
  • How can we create a Disaster Recovery strategy?
  • How well prepared is our organization to support cloud?
  • How and when should we integrate SaaS applications?
  • How do we monitor and manage a cloud?

Cloud Strategy Features

Data Driven

  • Virtustream Advisor™, a proprietary, agent-less analytics tool, measures actual usage and current systems performance
  • Benchmarks based on objective, quantifiable data
  • Transparent cost analyses in enterprise-relevant metrics
 

Expert Led

  • 10+ years of experience in virtualization of enterprise applications and cloud migrations
  • Highly certificated staff, including VCDX/VCP, RHCA/RHCDS, CCA, MCA, EMC Specialist
 

Enterprise Oriented

  • Extensive experience with enterprise-scale systems, SLAs, availability, and security requirements
  • Realistic, achievable recommendations for an enterprise environment
 

Vendor Agnostic

  • Vendor-neutral, objective analyses, based on virtualization and cloud transformation experience
  • Recommendations based on criteria and objectives established with the client
 

Strategy Types

Types of Cloud Strategy Services

Leveraging our extensive industry expertise, we assess your current infrastructure, applications and usage and build a plan to successfully transition your businesses through the cloud computing adoption process. Guided by a customized roadmap, clients discover the tactical and strategic specifics of adopting cloud computing services at their own pace.

Cloud Readiness Analysis, using Virtustream Advisor™

  • Evaluate, measure, and prioritize applications, systems, and operational environments
  • Quantify cloud impact on potential cost savings, business agility, and operational efficiency
 

Cloud Operational Assessments

  • Examine efficiency of current cloud/virtualized applications and systems
  • Health-checks on VMware, Red Hat, Citrix, and other virtualization platforms
  • Deep-dive on complex enterprise applications (e.g., SAP, SQL, Exchange, Big Data)
 

Cloud Security and Compliance Assessments

  • Identify security, regulatory and compliance risks for applications under consideration to move to a cloud
  • Develop risk mitigation plans
 

Point-Expertise on Specific Areas

  • Architecture Reviews
  • Business Case Development (Cost, performance, agility)
  • Vendor Identification and Analysis
  • Transition Cost Mapping
  • Risk Identification and Mitigation Planning
 

Virtustream Advisor

Through the Advisor Service, Virtustream is able to deliver a clear vision for your organization's transformation to a more efficient and flexible infrastructure. This vision is delivered with clear and actionable analysis and recommendations that meet the needs of business and technology stakeholders. Virtustream's mission is to enable our clients to select the next generation of Information Technology systems for their business -systems that truly deliver on the strategic direction that organizations themselves have formulated.

Do You Need Advisor?

  • If you are a business going through the RFP process, the Advisor can help you to determine your application resource consumption needs and provide you with a comprehensive template for generating a clear and concise document ready for distribution to potential vendors.
  • If you have not realized the ROI you expected on your virtualized environments, the Advisor Service can help you tune and optimize existing environments.
  • If you are new to cloud computing and need to make a business case for these solutions, the Advisor Service can deliver the TCO and ROI metrics needed to support critical decisions.
  • If you are preparing a disaster recovery program, the Advisor Service can help to produce an optimal plan - whether you are running a purely physical infrastructure, a virtual infrastructure, or a mixed environment.
  • If your existing hardware is reaching end of life, the Advisor can help you map out an upgrade strategy, including ROI analysis compared to cloud offerings.
  • If you currently operate a data center on physical servers, the Advisor Service can help with an evaluation of the Cloud, and with Disaster Recovery Strategies that may improve upon those offered by your current vendor, perhaps even at a lower cost.

Integration

Cloud Integration

Migrating enterprise applications to the cloud starts with a comprehensive strategy, but success is only achieved through detailed planning and strong technical execution. Virtustream provides comprehensive professional services geared to help enterprises migrate applications to the cloud. Our team has extensive experience migrating complex and demanding applications.

Applications Include:

  • Microsoft Exchange
  • Microsoft Active Directory
  • Microsoft SharePoint
  • SAP B1
  • SAP HANA Services
  • Microsoft Dynamics
  • Interaction CRM
  • Oracle
  • MySQL
  • Microsoft SQL ServerL
  • And many, many more

Capitalizing on numerous real world, production, enterprise deployments, Virtustream understands that cloud computing typically represents as significant an operational challenge as a technical one. Therefore, our Cloud Integration Services provide guidance on how organizations can adjust their IT processes and compliance procedures to ensure their effectiveness when applied to cloud infrastructure and applications.

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Enterprise Web Apps

Enterprise-Focused Web Application Development

Realizing the full potential of a modern cloud computing environment requires a thorough understanding of an application, from the operating system all the way up the application stack.

Virtustream's Cloud Application Development Services team possesses deep experience with open source technologies, scalability of web applications, virtualization technologies, and cloud service platforms. Our team has developed, customized, and deployed hundreds of applications based on various open source and proprietary MVC frameworks and Content Management Systems (CMS). We provide Enterprise-focused web application development and consulting services.

Services Include:

  • Custom development in PHP, Python, Ruby, .NET and Java.
  • System implementation and integration with best of breed applications and frameworks such as Drupal, Django, Google App Engine, DotNetNuke and Ruby on Rails.
  • System administration and application architecture on Unix, Linux and Windows based systems.
  • System automation and configuration tools such as Chef, Puppet and Fabric.
  • High performance web application tools such as Apache, NGINX, HAProxy, Varnish, Tomcat and Internet Information Server.
  • Application load and performance testing with Seige, jMeter and Tsung.
  • Database architecture and administration for MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL and NoSQL style datastores.
  • Technical project management and agile development methodologies.
  • Version control systems and development management tools such as SVN, Mercurial, Git, the Atlassian Suite and Trac.

Whether you are looking to extend or enhance an existing application or build from the ground up, our Cloud Application Development Services team brings together the domain expertise and experience to make your project a success. For more information please contact us.

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