Professional Services
Elastra offers an array of professional services to assist you at every stage of your cloud implementation. We are committed to rapidly analyzing your requirements, and to design, deploy, and manage solutions that quickly meet your objectives.
Analyze
New Economics
Leverage the new paradigm of cloud computing to unlock the value of your IT investment.
Business Alignment
Define efficient, shared cloud environments that allow full software life-cycle management from business users to architects to developers to system administrators.
Design
Business Resiliency
Deliver cloud best practices that translate into IT agility, enabling your organization to prepare and respond more rapidly to varying business needs.
Risk Mitigation
Utilize cloud technologies to develop global, dynamically scalable infrastructures geared for business continuity.
Deploy
Rapid Service Development
Deliver agreed-upon quality of service levels to customers more quickly and efficiently.
Scalable Applications
Build flexibility and portability in order to allow your organization to redirect periodic resource demands.
Cloud Strategy
Services
Delivers a domain-specific or enterprise-wide cloud strategy, governance model and roadmap to guide the transformation of the organization and business systems towards a cloud model.
Is ideal for businesses who want to identify company-specific benefits and establish a comprehensive vision and strategy before implementing cloud technologies.
The Cloud Strategy offering delivers the following services:
- Cloud Vision and Business Value/ROI
- Cloud Governance Framework
- Cloud Roadmap
Cloud Maturity
Assessment
Delivers an understanding of your organization’s current maturity in cloud computing adoption and/or completes a technical health check of current initiatives or projects.
Used to assess current, desired or future state of cloud computing service orientation and integration for a line of business or an enterprise.
The Cloud Maturity Assessment delivers the following services:
- Cloud Benchmarking & Architecture Review
- Cloud Technical Review
- Cloud Recommendations & Roadmap
Cloud Proof Of
Concept Services
Identifies candidate projects, tests out the business value of cloud computing and/or quantifies the value of current cloud computing maturity.
Includes proof-of-concept planning and implementation.
May precede Cloud Strategy or Cloud Lifecycle Services to evaluate specific technologies or justify planning efforts.
The Cloud Proof of Concept offering delivers the following services:
- Candidate Project Identification
- Cloud Proof-of-Concept Planning & Implementation
- Cloud Business Value
Cloud Implementation
Planning
Defines and prioritizes future business processes, high impact services and the corresponding solution architecture for a complete cloud computing solution.
Develops the solution architecture overview; defining the scope in terms of process, services, security and governance requirements.
A robust implementation plan is developed for successful realization of the cloud solution.
The Cloud Implementation Planning offering delivers the following services:
- Cloud Business Processes and Services Priorities
- Cloud Architecture
- Cloud Security
- Cloud Governance Framework
- Cloud Implementation Plan
Private
Cloud services
Helps an organization develop a private cloud computing environment, typically for its exclusive usage.
Develops a utility-like IT environment, where computing resources and applications can be provisioned with greater efficiency.
Leverages current investments in systems management software, grids and virtualization technology while moving enterprise IT organizations to a private cloud service delivery model.
The Private Cloud offering delivers the following services:
- Private Cloud Architecture Plan
- Cloud Technical Review and Benchmarking
- Private Cloud Roadmap
- Private Cloud Deployment
Legacy 2
Cloud services
Defines a legacy technology transformation and application portfolio management point of view for the overall cloud computing roadmap.
The Legacy 2 Cloud offering supports the following topics:
- Cloud Solution Architecture Overview
- Cloud Architecture Mapping to Cloud Future Model
- Cloud Legacy Transformation Approach and Plan
- Cloud Security Architecture
- Cloud Legacy Migration
Elastra Cloud Server
(ECS) Deployment
Design and implement cloud computing services while utilizing the Elastra Cloud Server product suite.
The Elastra Cloud Server offering delivers the following services:
- Elastra Cloud Server Technical Architecture
- Cloud Configuration, Security and Enforcement rules
- Cloud Monitoring, Appraisal and Auditing rules
- Cloud Server Virtualization and Implementation
Manage
Successful Cloud Management
Gain the skills required to successfully manage public and private cloud environments.
Leverage Your Success
Continuously improve your cloud delivery model to better serve business needs.
Cloud Lifecycle
Planning
Prioritizes subsequent Elastra Cloud Computing Professional Services to deploy based on the business need and value.
Defines common cloud computing services that complement the implementation lifecycle in every stage of cloud design, development, integration, implementation and management.
Drives a clear application framework across geographies and lines of business through a common set of tools, methods and best practices.
The Cloud Lifecycle Planning delivers the following services:
- Cloud Service Model
- Cloud Integration Infrastructure
- Cloud Management & Monitoring Infrastructure
- Cloud Development, Test & Production Environments
- Cloud Runtime Management & Monitoring Activities
Cloud Management
Education & Training
Deliver complete knowledge transfer of ECS deployment and Cloud Delivery Model.
Develop and train organization to manage ECS functionality.
Design and implement Cloud Services Delivery Support Model.
The Cloud Management Education & Training offering delivers the following services:
- Cloud Deployment Knowledge Transfer
- Elastra Cloud Server Education & Training
- Cloud Service Delivery Support Model
Get started today! Contact ELASTRA PROFESSIONAL SERVICES to find out how we can help you identify the cloud computing services appropriate for your business. To get started, E-MAIL US: PS@elastra.com or call 415-651-0100.
