Cloud Confidence
The cloud offers organisations an unprecedented degree of scalability, flexibility, and control over their operations. Yet, despite this promise, many companies are still not getting the full benefits of the cloud. A well-reasoned and optimised approach can help take you into the cloud with confidence.
Taking an optimised approach makes it possible for companies to overcome the limitations of traditional one-size-fits-all migration strategies and instead build more flexible and adaptive journeys, grounded in the business drivers unique to each organisation. However, this does not mean this type of approach is simple.
Following this path requires taking the time to consider a variety of factors that could affect the final outcome. These include the potential cost and complexity of a migration, the state of current infrastructure, the potential limitations of existing licenses, and more. But while this will ultimately mean more effort, the result will be the full benefits of a mature cloud.
In a cloud world, the ultimate goal is to not have any infrastructure. The capital model is replaced with a variable model based on monthly usage fees for everything. The cloud is an operating expense, not a capital expense—it's very different for the business.
This model, and the tools available, creates a level of transparency we've never had before. We can see which product, service, or individual is consuming resources. We can better see how a new product will increase operating expense incrementally rather than buying for the worst-case scenario. The cloud allows for a much more detailed and precise way of tracking costs and ROI, beyond allocation models. In the cloud, we have visibility into the cost relations between any application, network, storage, department or individual. It gives IT the information to drive good decisions.
And the control is superior to anything we've had before. In the traditional model, we pay for hardware, licenses and maintenance, whether we use them or not. In cloud, we have multiple levers that we can switch on or off that allow us to be flexible to adapting business changes. We can pull back on resiliency, scalability, and non-production environment costs. And of course, on the flip side, it's a push of a button to scale up capacity or speed as the need arises.
Moving to the cloud requires us to re-think how we manage our IT resources.
Praizele Corporation is redefining how companies build, buy and manage everything in the cloud. By helping clients to migrate and modernise their workloads and applications – and in parallel, to navigate and optimise the resulting software and cloud changes – Praizele Corporation unlocks the value of technology.
