Many organizations are rushing to move their estates to the cloud, expecting major cost savings and other benefits. However, this is a move that requires careful preparation, especially in terms of deep-dive analysis of your existing IT estate and the way you use the assets. If you don’t invest enough time in preparation and planning,…
This series has described how to approach cloud migration and the associated cost management in terms of six essential questions that need to be addressed. In this final post, I would like to tell you a bit about our Asset Vision platform, and the features that make it ideal for supporting cloud migration and management…
As we saw in the previous post about continuing to deliver value, cloud migration is not a one-time project – there are still significant challenges to deal with after you’ve made the move. Above all, it’s important to keep the costs under control. Failure to do so has left many companies disappointed with their cloud…
If you’ve carefully worked through the questions discussed in earlier posts, your company should enjoy a smooth cloud migration. But once you’re successfully running in the cloud, it’s important to keep verifying that value is being delivered as you’re managing your cloud environment. This is mainly a question of revisiting questions 1 and 2 to…
Years ago, when I was a young Sales Manager with Cadence Design Systems we cooked up the idea of subscription software vs. perpetual ownership, this was a way to reduce cost and allow our customers more flexibility. Back in those days, clouds were just puffy white masses of water vapor floating around in the sky….
Welcome back to our blog series about how to plan a cloud migration and optimize the costs. We’re suggesting some questions that companies should ask themselves in order to avoid the pitfalls that can stop you reaping the expected benefits. Remember, a North American study1 by Softchoice found that 57% of IT leaders have exceeded…
A whole industry has been built on IT transformation with companies taking aging IT estates and migrating onto hardware which is easier to maintain and run or moving from one suite of software to another. Now with cloud migration and digital transformation this industry has been supercharged. It sounds simple, but companies which do this…
If you’ve been following the advice offered in this blog series so far, you’ll have built up an accurate picture of your as-is IT estate, amended it to exploit any opportunities for rationalization, and pinpointed any applications that need to remain on-premise. Armed with this clear statement of your requirements, you’re now in a position…
IT is experiencing a massive change with the growth of subscription services which can be easily purchased by anyone with a credit card. This creates major challenges for the management of these services including: How do you know what services people are using? How do you know what is redundant or incorrectly sized? Are we…
So, it’s the day of your new website rollout, you’ve got great content and everybody who has reviewed it is hyped. This is the game changer that you’ve been looking for. Then somebody asks the question “How do we know if it’s successful?” Everyone looks at each other realizing that there’s no way of knowing…
In the previous cloud migration planning and cost optimization series post, we described how to build a picture of the as-is IT estate, and of how it is used and performs. However, as you prepare to migrate, it would be wrong to assume that you need to reproduce this picture. Instead, look for opportunities to…
Two major sporting events took place last weekend – Super Bowl LIII (Patriots vs. Rams) and the 6 Nations Rugby (specifically Ireland vs. England). Several thoughts came to mind when watching them, but for me as a CEO, the most important was that if you have the right strategy, complete focus to deliver, and the…
