A guide to adopting cloud computing

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Is the cloud right for you? Following the launch of our consultancy services we have put together a short guide to help you understand if cloud computing should be part of your IT strategy and how to implement it if it should.

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Is cloud right for you?A guide to adopting cloud computing

What direction is your IT taking?

• Is your business being driven to reduce costs?

• Do you need agile IT resource to regularly provision and decommission multiple servers?

Consider your requirements

• Does your IT estate require modernisation?

• Does your data centre have capacity or upgrade issues?

• Do you want to reduce your use of physical servers?

• Do you need to comply with CO2 emission targets?

• Does your existing hosting lack committed SLAs?

• Do you have CAPEX issues with new IT procurement?

• Does your website need to meet peaks in demand?

• Do you need improved disaster recovery?

• Can your business manage ‘pay-as-you-go’ invoicing?

If you answered ‘yes’ to more than one of those questions – then cloud can probably benefit you.

Still not sure if cloud is right for you?

Ask us about our Cloud Adoption Assessment Service.It’s specially designed to:

• Assess your current situation• Identify the risks, costs and benefits of moving to cloud• Produce a high level solution design with roadmap and

timescales• Present our recommendations to your key stakeholders

“Ok, so I want to move to the cloud, where do I start?”

Are your services, old and new, ready to run in the cloud?

Our Cloud Service Design will:

• Summarise your business and functional requirements • Design a service that’s aligned to your requirements• Include a high level implementation plan with timescales

and costs• Feature a presentation to key stakeholders

Right let’s do this!

Migrating to cloud can be the hardest step

We’ll help create a detailed migration plan

And if you like it, we’ll implement it!

Find out if cloud is right for you, and how to get there if it is

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