CloudRight

Take back control. Get cloud right.

Cloud computing offers unparalleled speed and agility. But, adopting cloud without a decisive framework for managing cloud services can lead to disappointing results. To thrive in the cloud, you need control. How do you balance performance and cost in a complex IT environment?

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The CloudRight approach.

CloudRight is a comprehensive framework for maximizing the full potential of cloud services. It empowers IT with the right cloud strategy, adoption framework, and IT environment optimized for your business needs, enabling you to:

Gain insight and control of cloud deployments.
Migrate additional workloads to the cloud.
Migrate workloads from public to private cloud.
Rationalize hybrid cloud.

Improve performance of cloud assets.
Provide business-IT transparency about cloud costs.
Rightsize cloud spend.
Align corporate strategy and cloud strategy.

The CloudRight Framework

CloudRight Strategy

Develops a cloud strategy aligned to your corporate strategy to ensure IT is equipped to deliver consistent results for the business.

Delivers a cloud strategy document that outlines your business case, scope, future goals, adoption time line, costs, and go-forward cloud strategy.

CloudRight Framework services

Implements an application-level decision framework to quickly scale cloud services in a controlled process that mitigates risk and cloud waste.

Provides a clear and decisive path for cloud adoption, including cloud and application architecture and a governance model for cloud management.

CloudRight Migration services

Follows a proven methodology to safely move workloads to the cloud without disrupting critical business operations.

Migrates workloads to the cloud while providing a revised operational support model and standardized cloud environment for innovation.

CloudRight Optimization

Assesses and optimizes your cloud deployments to ensure performance, cost-efficiency, and business-IT alignment.

Reduces infrastructure complexity and risk with a cloud operational model, cost management plan, and optimized IT environment.

CloudRight Strategy

Develops a cloud strategy aligned to your corporate strategy to ensure IT is equipped to deliver consistent results for the business.

Delivers a cloud strategy document that outlines your business case, scope, future goals, adoption time line, costs, and go-forward cloud strategy.

CloudRight Framework services

Implements an application-level decision framework to quickly scale cloud services in a controlled process that mitigates risk and cloud waste.

Provides a clear and decisive path for cloud adoption, including cloud and application architecture and a governance model for cloud management.

CloudRight Migration services

Follows a proven methodology to safely move workloads to the cloud without disrupting critical business operations.

Migrates workloads to the cloud while providing a revised operational support model and standardized cloud environment for innovation.

CloudRight Optimization

Assesses and optimizes your cloud deployments to ensure performance, cost-efficiency, and business-IT alignment.

Reduces infrastructure complexity and risk with a cloud operational model, cost management plan, and optimized IT environment.

Contact Us

[email protected]

888-681-1988

Ten ways to optimize cloud costs and avoid cost hogging

Cloud cost optimization: 10 ways to save

Cloud technology allows scalable on-demand sharing of resources and costs among a large number of end-users. It enables end-users to process, manage, and store data efficiently at very high speeds. Despite these numerous benefits, many enterprises are facing spiraling costs, and they're looking for ways to reduce their cloud spend. Where can you find savings to make your cloud investments deliver on their potential and avoid cost hogging?

The Cloud Learning Center

What are the 5 key characteristics of cloud computing?

It is an on-demand, self-service computing model.
A cloud consumer can access the environment from anywhere.
Resources like storage, processing, memory, and network bandwidth are pooled and shared.
It is flexible and can scale on-demand to changes in your business needs or cycles.
It is a measured service that is charged based upon service consumption. You pay for what you use.

For more details, watch a 3-minute video.

What is the difference between a cloud-first strategy and a cloud-right strategy?

A cloud-first strategy pursues cloud adoption and legacy modernization first and foremost when adding, creating, or updating applications or infrastructure to an IT environment — regardless of fit or function.

A cloud-right strategy pursues the best strategy that balances an organization’s unique circumstances and goals when adding, creating, or updating applications or infrastructure to an IT environment. It leverages current IT infrastructure in combination with cloud service models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), taking a holistic approach that considers IT, the total cost of ownership (TCO), and business needs.

What are the 3 types of cloud computing?

Cloud computing offers 3 different service models:

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Software as a Service (SaaS)

Each service model provides for network, compute, storage, and other services via a remote physical location which can be accessed from anywhere via the internet. Public cloud services are managed by third-party vendors such as Google, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon Web Services (AWS), and other niche players.

What is Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)?

Infrastructure as a service is the foundation of all cloud service models. It combines compute, storage, network and other basic infrastructure resources for an organization to run any type of software application, workload, or operating system in the cloud.

For more details, watch a 3-minute video.

What is platform as a service (PaaS)?

Platform as a service is a virtual cloud environment that provides the tools, infrastructure and operating systems needed for a software or application developer to create, modify, and update software and applications.

For more details, watch a 3-minute video.

What is software as a service (SaaS)?

Software as a service delivers an application that is hosted in the cloud and licensed to end users who consume its features and functions. The application is hosted by a service provider who manages the underlying infrastructure, maintenance, compliance, and security upgrades.

What is the difference between public cloud and private cloud?

A private cloud is a single tenant, high-performance environment with pooled resources dedicated for use by an enterprise. It is managed in-house or in a service provider’s data center with enhanced security protection for sensitive data.

A public cloud is a multi-tenant environment that offers fast provisioning with pooled resources for use by multiple enterprises. It is managed by third-party providers and offers a pay-as-you-go model with basic security protections.

How to select the right cloud service provider and colocation site for your organization.

Start with a process that assesses risk, defines current and future-state requirements, and evaluates your technical, financial, and business requirements. It includes 3 stages and 13 thorough steps that produce a decision matrix that support the vendor selection process.

Ensure IT services land in the right place by selecting the right cloud service provider and colocation facility.

Get CloudRight.