Which Cloud? It All Starts with Assessing Application Readiness

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One of the more challenging aspects of cloud adoption is identifying if an application is a good fit for cloud, and what cloud is the best. Gravitant has taken their extensive knowledge and developed a wizard-based tool that determines the business value of moving to the cloud, the amount of effort it will take to make the application cloud ready and what type of cloud is the best fit for this particular app. Join us to learn more about the key criteria to consider when assessing an application and how we enable IT to assist the business in this determination.

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Which Cloud? It all starts with assessing application readiness.

Benjamin Tao Director of Marketing

[email protected]

Ilyas Iyoob, Ph.D. Director of Advanced Analytics

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Gravitant BrightTALK Series

Enabling the path to IT-as-a-Service with Cloud Services Brokerage

What do you need to know to make IT-as-a-Service a

reality?

AWS got you worried? Learn

how to get a grip on AWS spend

and sprawl

Which Cloud? IT all starts with

assessing application readiness

What is an IT-as-a-Service

Catalog and why is it a necessity?

Recorded Recorded April 9th Today

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Why move applications to the cloud?

A focus on cutting costs

21% annual savings of users who move

applications to the cloud

Wikibon

84% of CIOs cut application costs by moving to the cloud

Business Insider

88% of health care orgs reduced their cost of

applications by moving them to cloud

Information Management

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Is cost the entire reason?

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Time

COST

Cost

Performance

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Your options today for assessing which applications for the cloud

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Employ an outside cloud consultant...

Leverage internal resources…

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Polling Question

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Key factors to determine an application’s cloud readiness

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Target Infrastructure

Application Benefit

Application Readiness

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Key factors to determine an application’s cloud readiness: Determining Target Infrastructure

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Target Infrastructure

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Key factors to determine an application’s cloud readiness: Determining Application Benefit

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Application Benefit

Target Infrastructure

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Key factors to determine an application’s cloud readiness: Determining Application Readiness

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Application Benefit

Application Readiness

Target Infrastructure

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Introducing cloudMatrix Application Screener

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Wizard-based tool that harnesses the knowledge and results of 5 years of customer experiences

Multi-dimensional assessment

Decision based workflow engine

Best-fit deployment model for an application

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Target Infrastructure

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The Choices: Physical hardware Virtualized hardware Public IaaS – Commodity Public IaaS – Enterprise Private IaaS PaaS SaaS

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Cloud Assessment Summary

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Cloud Benefit versus Cloud Readiness

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Cloud Application Assessment Detail

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Cloud Benefit •  Architecture Feasibility •  OS/Platform Popularity •  Application Complexity

Cloud Readiness •  TCO Savings •  Application Performance •  Network Performance

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The path to IT-as-a-Services with cloud services brokerage

Pick your path, public or private cloud

Discover

Self-service

Govern

Visibility & Control

Plan

Compare

Scale

Multi-Cloud ITaaS

Optimize

Private Cloud Path

Public Cloud Path

Choose across public and private cloud options

Manage across public and private clouds

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Take the first steps to a better approach to screening your applications for the cloud

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•  Contact us at [email protected]

•  For more info on, visit:

http://www.gravitant.com/product-features/cloud-application-assessment/

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