Consulting Service - Offered at No Charge
Interested in validating your cloud strategy with an industry expert? Want to better understand your risks and help set realistic goals? This is your chance to spend a day with a cloud expert.
We will send one of our Senior Cloud Architects on site for one day anywhere in the United States at no cost to you, to discuss your cloud strategies, plans, goals and progress to date.
Senior Cloud Architect
for one day
at no charge
We will send one of our Senior Cloud Architects on site for one day anywhere in the United States at no cost to you, to discuss your cloud strategies, plans, goals and progress to date.
Senior Cloud Architect
for one day
at no charge
Potential Topics
- Validation of cloud strategy: Bounce ideas off a highly technical architect that has hands-on experience from assisting many other companies in their transition to the cloud
- Application development transformation: find out what other companies are doing to help their development organization take advantage of the dramatic productivity increases cloud computing has to offer if implemented properly
- Platform-as-a-Service adoption: understand the key success factors of PaaS and how that can conflict with the old boundaries between application development and infrastructure.
- DevOps: how does DevOps factor into your organization's cloud readiness? Have you established Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Deployment (CD) and Delivery into your application development capability? Are these processes run by a central group or still managed in silos? Have these methods and technologies been applied optimally with respect to process and best practices for your organizational structure? How will you achieve DevOps automation?
- Cloud Management: At what point should you consider implementing a Cloud Management Platform and what affect will that have on your ability to minimize and manage cloud platform dependencies?
- Software Defined Infrastructure: When should you consider the virtualization options available with today's software defined networking (SDN) and software defined storage (SDS)? How do those options affect your public cloud, private cloud or hybrid cloud strategy?
- OpenStack strategy and deployment for private cloud: if you're considering OpenStack, find out what goals, risks and obstacles you should take into account and what you should do to prepare
