Cloud Discovery, Assessment, and Advisory

ISM’s Cloud Discovery, Assessment and Advisory services (part of our Center of Excellence (CoE) competencies) are right-sized and executed to help our clients articulate and define cloud strategies that align to their desired business outcomes and organizational transformation goals.

• Supported Discovery, Advisory and Assessment Use Cases
  • Greenfield Azure Cloud deployment
    • Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) aligned landing zones
    • Align IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, or a combination of services to build/deploy the target solution
  • Lift & Shift, Re-platforming
    • Windows & Linux workloads
    • Databases
    • Storage (File shares, blob storage, etc.)
    • Virtual Desktop
  • Hybrid Cloud
    • Extend on-premises IT infrastructure/data centre
    • Azure Active Directory
    • Active Directory Connect
    • Active Directory Federation Services
  • DevOps
    • Facilitate capture of business requirements for new DevOps initiatives
    • Establish the DevOps CI/CD pipeline and testing environment aligned to your existing frameworks
    • Integration service that can include CSP-offered marketplace solutions, plug-ins, and APIs
  • Security Advisory
    • Policies addressing asset classification, network isolation, securing on-premises and Azure connectivity
    • Security management metrics review and analysis of indicators/triggers
    • Planning, review and reporting of policy compliance, ongoing monitoring, remediation/enforcement actions of violations and triggers
• Client Business Challenges
  • Need help building your cloud and technology strategy.
  • Require scalable, sustainable, and integrated technology to support your enterprise IT landscape.
  • Need ability to respond quickly, securely, and reliably to fluctuating demands on your IT capacity.
  • Want a trusted and proven professional services provider to help your business adopt a cloud environment and support digital transformation within your organization.
• Alignment
  • Initial information gathered by our Cloud Acceleration Team includes inputs to the overall Cloud business cases. Organizational readiness is captured during workshops to gather stakeholders, motivations, and objectives for cloud success.
  • Examine your current IT posture, alignment to cloud, and readiness to integrate cloud technologies into your IT landscape.
  • Work with you to identify and define desired business outcomes then use that business context to shape the supporting near- and long-term IT cloud strategies.
• Discovery
  • Catalog your business applications.
  • Gather metrics from your active systems.
  • Discover the complexities and idiosyncrasies of your applications.
  • Create application dependency mappings applicable to the in-scope applications and cloud affinity maps aligned with desired business outcomes.
• Assessment
  • Tailored mapping of relationships between identified application dependencies.
  • Review dependency maps to confirm that migrations of ecosystems are planned accordingly.
  • Organizational readiness and capacity of your business to adopt the changes necessary to migrate to public/private cloud.
  • Tailored report of health and readiness of your IT portfolio, identifying candidate workloads for optimizing or prerequisite remediation actions. We work with you to develop a target solution baseline utilizing the five Rs of rationalization: Rehost, Refactor, Rearchitect, Rebuild, Replace/Retire.
  • The total cost of your current operations is placed alongside your target architecture to present the TCO and discover ROI earlier.
• Advisory & Next Steps
  • We work with you to create a tailored migration plan and roadmap to signify the start (or continuation) of your journey to the cloud.
  • Engage with our Cloud Deployment, Migration & Modernization service teams to execute the plan and prepare the target cloud environment to support the target architecture.
• ISM Value Proposition
  • Our method is aligned with the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework to deliver repeatable, predictable results and to scale up and down based on client baseline volumes and complexity.
  • Our Center of Excellence (CoE) competencies are established with qualified cloud migration factory capabilities and can provide end-to-end migration services.
  • We have deep pools of resources with demonstrated skills, experience, and qualifications in migration of workloads to commercially available public or private cloud environments.
  • We have experience in a large-scale workload migration to cloud including application workload assessment, migration and transformation.
  • Our Cloud Acceleration Team leverages an Agile delivery approach to partner with clients for solution delivery.
  • ISM offers flexible, modular services to allow our customers to create solution bundles that are tailored to support their desired business outcomes.

Terms, conditions, and pricing are custom to each engagement. Please contact us to discuss a solution to meet your business needs.