Before adopting cloud services, careful and independent analysis of your current environment will enable you to make more informed, business-based decisions.
It’s a matter of balancing risk with reward, as well as the solution’s ability to address business objectives, so that your organisation receives value for money.
Leveraging the best of both worlds for flexibility and efficiency
Hybrid cloud solutions integrate the benefits of public and private clouds to create a flexible and scalable infrastructure. By combining these two environments, businesses can enjoy the scalability and cost-effectiveness of public clouds while maintaining the security and control of private clouds. Hybrid cloud solutions facilitate the migration and management of workloads across different cloud environments, making them an excellent choice for businesses with sensitive data and regulatory needs.
Hybrid cloud solutions offer several key benefits:
- Flexibility: Hybrid clouds allow businesses to select the most suitable deployment model for each workload, ensuring optimal flexibility and scalability.
- Efficiency: By optimising resource utilisation, hybrid clouds help reduce costs and improve operational efficiency.
- Security: Hybrid clouds provide enhanced security by allowing sensitive data to be stored in private clouds while less sensitive data can be managed in public clouds.
- Cost-effectiveness: Businesses can leverage the cost benefits of public clouds while maintaining the necessary security and control through private clouds.
Understanding the advantages of hybrid cloud solutions enables businesses to make informed decisions about their cloud strategy, ensuring a smooth and effective transition to the cloud.
What you can expect
Cloud services that are the best strategic fit for your organisation, balancing risk with reward, aligning to business objectives, and delivering value for money.
A focus on the benefits of cloud solutions, with eyes wide open to the risks
Whether it’s SaaS, IaaS or PaaS (software, infrastructure or platform as a service), it’s not a matter of adopting cloud for the sake of it.
By understanding the issues and, more importantly, identifying the risks, Frame can:
- establish a policy framework to ensure that all future services comply with your organisation’s strategic direction with respect to procurement of ICT services
- set the guiding principles to determine whether cloud is right for your organisation, considering the strategic and business objectives
- identify which ICT services are candidates for moving to the cloud, by gaining an understanding of your network, applications and storage requirements
- decide which cloud deployment model (public, private, hybrid, or multi-cloud) and commercial model are best for each service, taking into account your risk and availability criteria
- determine the cloud security assurance criteria to ensure that business and commercial needs are addressed by the services selected.
A cloud strategy that’s aligned to your business, and optimises performance of your services
A cloud strategy that’s aligned to your business, and optimises performance of your services.
Our strategies include a roadmap for adoption, setting priorities that take into account the criticality of your services.
This ensures less risk and less impact to your business and gives you the best opportunity to acquire knowledge and skills.
Of course, migrating some or all of your ICT services to the cloud means changing the way you operate, and this cloud migration process must be carefully managed to ensure minimal disruption.
So our cloud strategies also address redesigning your business, information and technology architectures, as well as related business processes, to optimise performance of your services.
Cloud services that can adapt to changing business circumstances and facilitate cloud migration
Because business objectives change over time, we include an exit strategy as part of our cloud sourcing service — something often overlooked by others.
It’s important to know what’s required to change or terminate a cloud service contract with your cloud provider and what impact that may have on your business operations.
Assistance to gain internal support for your private cloud strategy
When the time comes to market the strategy to the rest of your organisation, we can help you develop the business case and investment plan.
Because cloud computing isn’t a matter for the CIO alone, we make sure the business case makes the strategy clear for all Clevel managers to understand, including the selection of appropriate cloud providers to meet specific business needs.
Get the clarity you need for a hybrid cloud approach that delivers the best value for your business
Speak to one of our consultants to find out how Frame’s cloud strategies, including our hybrid cloud approach, can make a difference to your business.