1. 1 Envision 3 Outline 4 Design
Our experience tells us that a successful cloud initiative is comprised of steps that produce these key outcomes during the journey.
1 Envision
2 Evaluate
3 Outline
4 Design
Identify cloud opportunities
Cloud service
delivery strategy
Cloud design
Gap analysis
Business case
Determine the opportunities cloud offers your business based on your industry
Incorporate cloud and a service delivery approach Into your IT portfolio decision process
Define the conceptual and operational design of your cloud solution
Analyze where you are and where you need to be in areas critical for cloud success
Define the total cost of ownership, return on investment , business value or full business case of your cloud
Cloud direction and scope
Architectural decisions
Management framework
Prioritized workloads
Governance and
organizational impact
After thousands of engagements with clients and cloud, we have seen that a successful cloud initiative is comprised of several steps that produce these key outcomes.
At IBM Cloud Advisory Services, we take a collaborative approach. We weave together business insight, advanced research and technology to help give you a distinct advantage in today’s rapidly changing environment. Our integrated perspective on cloud consulting, design and implementation can turn strategies into action.
Whether it is envisioning the opportunities cloud can offer your business, analyzing your gaps and infrastructure readiness, building your cloud implementation roadmap, or prioritizing what workloads you put on the cloud and how they will perform – we can help. We can also help you determine how to adjust to new services in your organization, how to make strategic systematic decisions on those services, define you architectural requirements and decisions, understand how cloud impacts your organization and governance, build your business case, design your conceptual and operational cloud and define the management framework or operating model.
Composable business is the new way forward – As is composable services offered by IBM. This will enable you to have a more personalized experience geared to your needs and your point on your cloud journey and make better decisions moving forward. To accomplish this, we use a composable model. We can help you at any step in your cloud journey. This “building block” approach allows you to build the solution you need.
Envisioning success in the cloud
Evaluating where you are, where you need to be and which workloads to migrate:
Through gap analysis
Prioritization of workloads
Outlining your service delivery strategy and technical blueprint
Defining your service Delivery Strategy
Architectural Decision and requirements
Designing your roadmap for success
Your roadmap will guide the journey from vision to success in the cloud. Key elements include:
Business Case
Cloud design
Governance and Organizational Impact, and
Management Framework
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Envision (Identify cloud opportunities, determine cloud direction and scope)
Evaluate (Perform gap analysis and prioritize workloads)
Outline (Determine cloud service delivery strategy and architectural decisions)
Design (Cloud design and definition of the management framework)
Define or revalidate the role and direction your organization will assume with cloud
Determine and document overarching architectural decisions and requirements
Define the management framework for the operational environment
Examine new and/or existing workloads for cloud suitability and remediation
Define the governance and organizational impact of cloud
Pilot feedback
Pilot feedback
Pilot feedback
Initial roadmap
Current state
Updated roadmap
Portfolio planning
Technical decisions
Transition plan
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2. 2 Evaluate
3 Outline
4 Design
1 Envision
Define the functional and operational design of your cloud solution enabling you to specify the structure and behavior of the components.
Server
What we offer
Storage
Design your cloud solution to meet functional, non-functional and operational requirements
Take a technology independent and product neutral fashion
Disaster
recovery
Key
functional
components
Database and
middleware
What you get
Conceptual design
Operational design
Network
Cloud Design. Development of the Operational Design begins at the logical level and progresses to the physical level. The logical level describes the characteristics and capabilities of the operational aspect of the system architecture in a technology independent and product neutral manner. This physical level describes characteristics and capabilities of the operational aspect of the system architecture in a technology and product dependent manner. Once the design is complete, there needs to be one more evaluation to make sure the risk points have been addressed.
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Server
Storage
Disaster recovery
Network
Security/compliance
Managed applications
Database and middleware
Managed
applications
Security/compliance
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