A One-Stop Solution to IT Inventory Assessment-Click2Cloud® Cloud Intel
Businesses and organizations are moving their workload to the cloud for better agility, performance, and security. Cloud computing is bellwether of hosting applications and databases to improve overall efficiency of business processes. The disparity between on-premise and cloud environment workload often results in business to migrate workloads to the cloud. Cloud technology shows impeccable growth contributing to the adoption of cloud-based computing across many businesses and organizations.
Cloud readiness assessment is aprocess where businesses and organizations determine whether the workload that can be moved to the cloud and what are the resources necessary to complete the assessment and migrate the workload to the cloud. Cloud assessment aids organization in evaluating whether moving to the cloud is right choice and also focuses on benefits, risks, cost, and resources for cloud migration. Cloud assessment is the most crucial step before migrating workload to the cloud environment.
Cloud assessment enables the organization to understand unique application landscape, resources, and dependencies. It helps in listing out all the changes and requirements, and thus gives a clear picture of steps required to migrate to the cloud. Cloud assessment provides the enterprise with complete information about every scenario while migrating to the cloud. Cloud assessments deliver various insights by assessing IT inventory. With cloud assessment, migrating to the cloud becomes extremely simple.
How Cloud assessment helps businesses?
Cloud assessment provides enterprise with a complete infrastructure assessment to determine what data, applications, and other workloads to migrate on a cloud to make sense. Determine time and budget of cloud migration at ease with cloud assessment. Cloud assessment also suggests various approaches of cloud migration to help enterprise decide which approach will be best suited. Cloud assessment simply gives a complete map to the organization to help make migration of databases and applications seamless.
Cloud assessment provides organization with a complete IT inventory assessment including software and hardware resources. It meticulously analyze all VMs and provides a detailed analysis report stating complete necessary requirements for moving the workload on the cloud. Cloud assessment also provides on-premise assessment and a report stating whether moving to the cloud is better or not. It helps the business clear various aspects, decision-making simple and quick.
Cloud assessment helps the organization in comparing several cloud computing platforms, and decides which cloud environment will be best suitable for organization’s needs, and also suggests the cost it will require. This gives organization a clear insight into migration. Furthermore, cloud assessment provides a complete timeline and roadmap for migration to the cloud so that the migration process follows that timeline and business processes do not get interrupted. Cloud assessment reduces the cost exponentially and opens up various doors for the organization for moving workload on the cloud.
Click2Cloud’s Cloud Intel: A complete assessment solution
Click2Cloud® is a leading cloud assessment and migration service provider. Click2Cloud’s Cloud Intel aids the organization in seemingly assessing the IT inventory requirement, discovery, and cloud compare to evaluate the necessary resources for moving the workload to the cloud environment. It answers various questions for the organization including ‘what to do first and how to make it happen’. Cloud Intel is the one-stop solution for all cloud assessment requirements.
Cloud Intel enables organization to move to cloud, list all the virtual machines and physical servers, an operating system on each machine, configuration list of each machine including CPU, RAM, storage, and utilization parameters like CPU utilization, disk utilization, memory utilization, and network input/output. Based on all these parameters Cloud Intel facilitates organization to identify the readiness of machines for various cloud environment through readiness report to available cloud. It also provides expenditure and saving reports.
Cloud Intel resolves various issues for the organization moving to the cloud. It provides a detailed Business Value Assessment report to enable the organization. Cloud Intel assesses infrastructure and collects the intel for different categories manually and automatically to enable decision making simple while moving workload on the cloud. With sufficient knowledge about the inventory and costs of source and destination, an organization can prepare the roadmap to migrate by identifying the exact workload, and team can work in a decided timeline while migrating to the cloud.
Facilities bundled with Cloud Intel
App and Infra
Click2Cloud’s Cloud Intel assesses different resources that are on the organization’s cloud infrastructure. It also provide details of cloud resources including compute, storage, and network — comparing them with different cloud environment providers — helping the organization to decide the correct cloud environment quickly.
Mainframe
Cloud Intel aids in discovering mainframe components that include Applications, Transaction Manager, Databases, Batch Environment, and Management Tools and provide suggestions & Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for corresponding cloud components.
SAP on Cloud
Cloud Intel performs discovery of SAP environment and does a Gap analysis to inform the organization of current state of a system and provides a report of cloud readiness. Cloud Intel provides various suggestions regarding available resources of cloud based existing SAP architecture.
Datacentre
A data center is a physical facility that consolidates an organization’s shared IT infrastructure and operations for storing and processing data and applications. It contains inventory of all components that are necessary for functioning of IT unit including routers, switches, storage units, firewalls, virtual machines, firewalls, and application delivery controllers. Cloud Intel is proficient in managing and listing down data center inventory. VMWare, HyperV, Lenovo Xclarity, and Redfish are some of the data center categories supported by Cloud Intel.
Security
Cloud Intel offers organizations a security assessment by analyzing and assessing with no damage to infrastructure.
Features of Cloud Intel
Discovery
Cloud Intel allows the discovery of an organization’s data/inventory to facilitate decision-making on utilization of SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS solutions.
Assessment
Cloud Intel assesses the servers, applications, and databases then generate a report that provides a detailed analysis of existing infrastructure on-premise or on a different cloud platform.
Cloud Compare
Cloud Intel compares multiple cloud-based on computi
ng, network cost, and storage to provide insightful graphical representation for better decision making for migration on the cloud.
TCO and ROI Reports
Generates Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and Return on Investment (ROI) report based on the information collected by performing Business Value Assessment. It helps in making favoring the organization’s investment.
Migration Roadmap and Timeline
Keeping TCO, Cloud Comparison, and Assessment Report in consideration, Cloud Intel provides a tentative timeline and roadmap for migration.
Orchestration
Deploy a list of inventories on the respective destination cloud automatically along with various scripts-based TCO and assessment reports.
Benefits of Cloud Intel
- Cloud Intel enables the organization to quickly decide whether to move a workload to cloud-based on graphically visual reports.
- Tracks down existing system and provide insightful suggestions on available services on the cloud.
- Based on the decision to move to the cloud, the organization can make the correct judgment to take the benefits of cloud computing including cost-saving, security, agility, flexibility, scalability, and performance.
- Based on the provided insights b Cloud Intel, if reports show lesser RoI for moving to the cloud, the organization can optimally utilize on-premise resources, saving the cloud cost and divert spending in building better products and services for end-user.
Conclusion
To summarize, Cloud Intel is a one-stop solution for cloud assessment before migrating the workload on the cloud. Cloud environment provides improved performance and helps in saving money, and cloud assessment is the first step for the cloud migration journey.
