Smart Cloud Strategy

Cloud infrastructure can help organisations innovate quickly, meet increasing business demands and optimise time, people and financial resources. The number of cloud solutions out there is growing all the time, and there’s a wave of new, interesting vendors to choose from.

We’ve found that our clients find all this choice pretty overwhelming, and that understanding what cloud approach is best for their businesses is a big challenge. Nephos SmartStrategy is a service that analyses your business needs, and then clarifies what cloud options are best for you. The service covers:

• Identifying which workloads should move to the cloud
• What cloud delivery models and vendors are right for you
• The real cost of running all or part of your operations in the cloud.

Business We’ll consult with your line of business heads to understand your:

• Business targets: Growth plans and targets
• Financial targets: How IT and the business manages budgets
• Application usage: Your core applications and workflows Data recovery / business continuity planning: What does the business need ?
• Service requirements: How IT services are delivered Strategy and planning: How you measure success.

Technology Your tech assessment includes assessing whether workloads are suitable for cloud delivery models, and evaluations of:

• Performance: Requirements for each workload and optimisation potential
• Security: Data and user requirements
• Access: How users access data and apps
• Storage: Requirements by workload and data type Computing: Requirements per application
• Data recovery / business continuity planning: RTOP/ RPO needed for each service.

Financial Cloud technology is often expected to reduce costs, but this isn’t always the case. SmartCloud Strategy compares your existing cost base with the real cost of cloud operations, including:

• CAPEX spend: Review of current buying cycles and planned spend
• OPEX spend: Review the current cost base, TCO and planned spend
• Environmental costs: Your current data centre footprint and costs.

Once you subscribe to this service, a Nephos Technologies representative will be in contact in order to discuss your requirement in more detail in order to validate the fact that this work can be completed to meet your needs and confirm program details.

Nephos Smart Cloud Strategy is delivered based on a fixed price statement of works so that it can be customised to your specific needs.