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?
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.
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- 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.