Cloud Control

Cloud Computing Defined: We are delighted to have the author’s permission to offer those looking for a definition of The Cloud this insightful definition Video: Cloud Computing - Why IT matters? By Simon Wardley of Gardeviance. This perspective of The Cloud as a manifestation of an evolutionary process is helpful. We have been there before; we can anticipate some of the problems and remember some of the solutions.

Cloud Migration Services

Like it or not we will all be on the Cloud one day, it's merely a question of time. This presents organisations with a new set of challenges, and many of the same old challenges in new clothes.

From this page you can begin the formulation of your Cloud Computing Strategy and we are here to help. We have pulled together in four White Papers some of the important features of this landscape. David Williams first reminds us of some of the risks we are going to encounter in “Finding the Silver Lining”. In "Are we nearly there yet?" Larysa Szalapaj argues that this change in the IT world is different from many others - there are few early adopter advantages and for the present time most SMEs may be better advised to devise a stratagem to get the most out of their existing investment in IT resources, if they can. Lindsay Smith takes a wider view and points to some of the problems way outside the realms of technology. "So, What's This Cloud?" gets away from the arguments over acronyms that restrict the debate to the technical elite and draws attention to the characteristic problems associated with being in the vanguard of a market that's changing.

But we are all going to the Cloud. And true to form, there is a right way and a number of wrong ways of going about it. The Right Way begins here with David Williams’ reassurance that we're all in this together. "Cloud Computing & Your Company" sets out two critical early steps to put your organisation on the right path to a successful Cloud Computing implementation: 1. Elevate the decisions to a point where the company recognises it's making a strategic decision; 2. Cloud Computing Implementation is a project, much like any other major IT deployment, it has a lifecycle, a process that gets you safely and predictably from where you are now to where you want to be, on the Cloud.

Our services for Cloud Migration adopt a necessary holistic approach to our client’s business. Technology is at the heart of the Cloud and the IT department is the master of technology, but Cloud Migration is about the business and its needs, present and future.

Preliminary Assessment: We review the landscape in your business with you to identify the process to guide and control your Cloud Computing Migration

Kick-off Workshop: Assemble stakeholders and bring them to the starting gate. Inform them and have them inform the process, enthuse and energise the undertaking.

Cloud Computing Strategy Formulation: “Why are we doing this?” is a necessary starting point – a clear articulation of the goals and success criteria. This has to be specified and managed by the business. We can help you derive this from the business and then define process and pathways to deliver.

Application, System and Interface Catalogue

Assessment

Architecture

Plan

Business Case

Supplier Identification, Qualification, Selection

Supplier Terms, SLAs, termination and data/application recovery or transfer

Technical Sub-Projects

Data Migration

Training, Testing, Deployment

IT Organisation Profiling and Re-Profiling