Cloud and Automation Assessment
Automation assessment and strategy development
You know where you need to go, but you can’t allocate the internal resources to evaluate your current state, or you don’t have the expertise to develop a full automation and private cloud roadmap. Our automation assessment answers the basic questions:
“Where do I start?"
"What problems can I solve?”
“What is the business case?”
Our assessment methodology will, at minimal cost and internal resource commitment, quickly assess readiness for automation, identify quick wins, and help you plan a roadmap for data center automation and private cloud on your way to the lights out data center.
You know where you need to go, but you can’t allocate the internal resources to evaluate your current state, or you don’t have the expertise to develop a full automation and private cloud roadmap. Our automation assessment answers the basic questions:
“Where do I start?"
"What problems can I solve?”
“What is the business case?”
Our assessment methodology will, at minimal cost and internal resource commitment, quickly assess readiness for automation, identify quick wins, and help you plan a roadmap for data center automation and private cloud on your way to the lights out data center.
Our process approach includes these steps:
- Process overview – This step involves a comprehensive review of how development, stage/test, and production environments are managed inside an organization. Processes range from initial business request through approval, accounting, provisioning/deployment, governance, compliance and retirement.
- Environment overview – This includes review of the infrastructure tools including top applications developed/deployed, server configurations, operating systems (including versions, patch revisions, kernel configurations), storage infrastructure and databases.
- Develop Goals/Objectives – Following our process and environment reviews, we will meet with your management team and develop automation goals that are realistic, achievable and cost effective. These goals may be as straightforward as automation of password resets or integration of systems currently being done manually. More advanced goals may include complete environment lifecycle management for dev, stage/test and production such as cataloging pre-designed configurations for the app dev group and completely automating the provisioning and governance of development environments so they are automatically archived and computing resources freed up per predefined policy.
- Strategy and Roadmap – After agreeing on goals and objectives, we will help you plan out how to achieve them with a short, medium and long term strategic plan. Knowing the investment required and the return on that investment, you can realize operational cost efficiency and increase quality of service.