Cloud Services

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• Standardized, IT-based capability provided by “off the shelf” or commoditized hardware components, use of large scale virtualization beyond processors – storage, core applications and development platforms
• Consumption-based billing on the basis of actual usage, and “pay-per-use” economics, for very small contract durations
• Scalability
• From the customer perspective: The ability to “flex” and add capacity on the fly
• From the provider perspective: Build in “elasticity” and scale on demand
• Flexible access models, such as web-based interfaces for administrative and usage needs, provide ease of consumption as a key differentiator

• Strategic balancing of fiscal realities of current infrastructure costs, capabilities and lifespan v/s the on-demand cloud computing-based solutions
• Assessing the technical capabilities or constraints and associated business requirements tied to private, public or hybrid cloud solutions
• Managing vulnerabilities in cloud information systems leading to potential information security risks, fraud and / or revenue loss
• Ensuring the availability of the required skills and resources to efficiently implement cloud solutions
• Meeting complex compliance requirements and government regulations around storing, accessing and sharing data
• Developing an organizational change strategy in support of, and aligned with, cloud adoption
• Building a comprehensive migration strategy to ensure maximum business value, including guidance on what workloads to migrate to which type of cloud computing and for what type of cost and service level or support model

• Centers of Excellence
• Innovation Labs and Co-innovation Network (COIN)
• Strategic Partner Network
• Solution Platforms
• Solution Accelerators
• Global Network Delivery Model

• Identify the cloud computing form, best suited to your business goals
• Transition applications to different cloud vendors based on their workload and cost-benefits
• Define a migration strategy and roadmap to meet your specific cloud implementation objectives and improve overall IT management and governance
• Identify your core security issues and optimize information security costs
• Provide end-to-end vendor-agnostic consulting with specific focus on client growth strategy
• Provide capabilities covering the full cloud transformation journey encompassing consulting, deployment and migration services, and environment build and management