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…
You can find many articles on cloud computing on the web — the why’s and wherefores, the dos and don’ts — but what motivates companies to start using public clouds for compute services? This blog explores the pros and cons of cloud computing as shared to us by our customers. Cost This is often cited…
In my last post, I sketched out the case for investing in detailed planning before moving an estate to the cloud. This time I’d like to focus on the first step of that planning: answering the “What have we got?” question. To build a thorough understanding of your starting point, you need to gather accurate…
Prianto appointed as distribution partner Maidenhead, UK – 29th January 2019: Scalable Software, an innovator in SaaS based IT asset intelligence, has today announced that it will be strengthening its commitment to the UK market with the launch of its new Scalable Partner Network (SPN). The company has also appointed Prianto as its UK distribution…
If, like many others, your organization is currently moving its IT estates to the cloud, no doubt you’re looking forward to major cost savings and other benefits. However, success in achieving these benefits has some critical dependencies, the first of which is your ability to get an accurate, “deep dive” understanding of your organization’s existing…
While the technology industry has become consumed with the idea of “the journey to the cloud,” the realities underlying actual cloud migrations often get lost in industry hype and wishful thinking. The truth is that public and even private cloud options don’t represent the endpoint of a ‘journey’ so much as a series of vital…
