WHAT DOES A CLOUD READINESS ASSESSMENT PROVIDE?

A CTE Cloud Readiness Assessment will examine a number of critical issues that will shape your cloud strategy, including

• Business drivers: vision, goals, critical success factors
• Technical feasibility: current infrastructure, management processes, applications
• Organizational feasibility: major business processes, human resources and skills, operations processes
• Cloud options: private, public, or hybrid
• Proprietary cloud vs. open solutions
• Benefits in your industry and vertical market
• Best practices and technology trends; industry and de-facto standards
• Security readiness: data, application, infrastructure and network
• Uptime assurance, and how to guarantee the availability you need
• Cost models from cloud providers as input for your business case
• Billing & Monetization: how to account for this shift in the market model
• How to mitigate risks: for example, avoiding vendor lock-in and cost increases

Additional services are tailored to match your organization:

• For Commercial or Public Sector Organizations:
  • Transformation strategies for existing applications
  • What to do with current infrastructure
  • Compliance issues with data and processes
• For ISVs:
  • How to establish a pricing model that works for you and your clients
  • Commercial practices: what is and is not accepted in the market
  • Security: what do you need to address in addition to what a Cloud Infrastructure Provider delivers
  • Service Levels: what do you and your customers really need; can you monetize higher SLAs?