Azure Architecture: 2-week Assessment

Our Discovery Phase

• Learn about your business
  • Overview of your businesses products and services
  • High level overview of proposed environment
  • Review current IT skills and technology stack
  • Regulatory compliance and security requirements
  • Data backup and retention requirements
  • Discuss areas of improvement to address
  • Budget and cost allocations
• Perform application and infrastructure assessment
  • Scope: 12 servers/services
  • Performance expectations
  • Availability requirements
  • Projected system load
  • Data Backup and retention requirements
  • 3rd party software and integrations
  • Identify risk factors
  • Cost savings opportunities
  • Connectivity to on-premises and remote resources
• IaaS vs PaaS options
• Licensing considerations

Our Deliverables

• Scope: 12 servers/services
• Architecture diagram
• List of cloud resources and details
• Installation guide
• ROI and TCO analysis
• Recommendations for future improvements
• Estimated cost of implementation, support and maintenance (if requested)

Add-ons (available at an additional cost)

• Implementation of design
• Cost optimization and right-sizing resources
• Support and maintenance
• Creation of Azure deployment templates to recreate environment
• Analysis of additional servers and services

Week One Agenda

• Client meetings to gather requirements and get overview of business
• Analyze proposed environment and compile recommendations
• Create first draft of architecture blueprint
• Review draft with client for approval

Week Two Agenda

• Refine and present final architecture diagram and remaining deliverables
• Discuss next steps and add-on services