The Race to the Cloud

Cloud migrations – The Fear of Missing Out

Cloud environments provide many benefits and new ways to conduct business making it an obvious choice for advanced capabilities and service offerings. However, the rapid uptick in cloud migrations make it seem like a cloud environment is the only choice. The value cost driver is sometimes an afterthought when considering a cloud hosted environment because it’s deemed as a necessity in today’s digital age. To help determine if a cloud migration is best for our clients, FEDelivery offers a cloud selection strategy so our clients can make informed decisions on their cloud services.

The Challenge: The Federal Government spends about $100 billion annually on IT related services. These dollars support the overall modernization, operations, and maintenance of our Government’s IT infrastructure. While most agencies have some dependency on a cloud requirement some of them are not tracking cloud related savings, making it difficult to make informed decisions on whether to use cloud services.

The Approach: The requirements are key to driving the cloud determined value. To accurately determine the value of a cloud-based environment will require technical assessments, use cases, and cost breakdowns for each cloud and non-cloud option, such as on-premises solutions. In addition to pulling the correct data, the data pulled should for each option should be similar in scope and size, e.g. the ram and compute specifics for each virtual machine.

The Solution: FEDelivery’s “Cloud Selection Strategy” utilizes best-in-class tools which can discover assets and measure workload performance to determine system requirements. We leverage those requirements to create a hosting recommendation. Our team also creates a cloud reevaluation metric to ensure the cloud is consistently providing value, thus easting the knowledge gap when evaluating the next emerging technology or cloud enhancements. If you do require a migration to the cloud, we develop an end-to-end transition plan and enable you to become cloud-native to meet your organizational needs. As with all our projects, security and functionality are always a priority. We deploy high quality implementation tools to create lightweight but secure cloud networks including VPC management, VM patching, OS guidance, Identity & Access Management controls (IAM), and firewall rules.