Azure Readiness : 7-Days Assessment

This 7-days assessment is for technical and business stakeholders to evaluate Azure adoption from a technical and business point of view.

Phase 1: Discovery - 2 Days:

The Discovery phase allows us to understand your business workflow, connectivity, applications, and goals.

• Discovery session to understand business goals, drivers, and gather assessment requirements.
• Identify business “as is” infrastructure capabilities, through discussions a data collected describing services, technology, operating model, and supplier agreements to define the baseline for the current operations.
• Identify Key Security and governance pain points and requirements within the organization.
• Identify business line of applications, risks, and constraints.

Phase 2: Assessment and Readiness - 3 Days:

A comprehensive assessment of existing workloads and applications.

• Build a performance profile for servers and applications as well as their dependencies.
• Evaluate network readiness.
• Analyze storage requirements, size, and tiers.
• OS and application licenses review.
• Application Grouping based on categories and affinity mapping.
• Map application dependencies with details on all processes.
• Applications compatibility and efficiency gain based on workload characteristics.
• Identify consolidation candidates.

Phase 3: Design - 2 Days:

A series of internal workshops to develop assessment reports, followed by a meeting with stakeholders to present results and discuss strategy and POC requirements.

Deliverables:

• Detailed plan and design documents.
• Design of network, applications, and servers on the cloud.
• Security planning and implementation requirements.
• POC requirements, costs, and timeline.