EMC Cloud Advisory with Cloud Optimizer

Balance your private and public cloud architecture options to achieve maximum cost savings and business agility

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The EMC Cloud Advisory Service gives you a roadmap to achieve the cloud vision that’s right for your organization – from pervasive virtualization to IT-as-a-Service and federation with public clouds.

We work with you to set strategy, develop the business case, define the architecture, and build governance models to achieve operational excellence in your cloud approach.

Our innovative approach featuring EMC Cloud Optimizer balances private, public, and hybrid cloud options based on economics, functionality, and trust – identifying savings of up to 25 percent of IT budgets.


Challenges

Deploying a cloud strategy requires an approach that takes advantage of the opportunities for virtualization and federation. Beyond IT efficiency, the cloud can dramatically improve business agility.

Your challenges include:

Developing a business case for cloud computing
Designing a cloud architecture that’s efficient and scalable across legacy IT data and public cloud providers
Balancing cloud vision with pragmatic choices based on trust, functionality, and economics
Defining placement of application workloads in an optimal cloud model

Our Approach

EMC Cloud Advisory Service develops a cloud strategy to maximize cost savings and business agility. EMC Cloud Optimizer balances legacy IT and cloud models based on trust, functionality, and economics.

The EMC Cloud Advisory Service with Cloud Optimizer:

Creates a business case for the value of cloud including CAPEX and OPEX
Defines IT costs based on information workloads for true cost insights
Establishes benchmarks to measure information assets based on industry and organization-centric trust measurements
Creates a transformational plan for people, process, and technology required for you to move to a cloud model.

Measurable Outcomes

The EMC Cloud Advisory Service helps you advance on your strategic journey to the enterprise-ideal cloud. An engagement will help you gain:

Insight into your cloud maturity for people, process, and technology
Accurate measurement of costs by application workload
A business case for cloud value including CAPEX and OPEX
A roadmap for your organizational and architectural journey to the cloud

Cloud Computing for Dummies!!

Cloud computing refers to the provision of computational resources on demand via a computer network, such as applications, databases, file services, email, etc. In the traditional model of computing, both data and software are fully contained on the user's computer; in cloud computing, the user's computer may contain almost no software or data (perhaps a minimal operating system and web browser only), serving as little more than a display terminal for processes occurring on a network of computers far away. A common shorthand for a provided cloud computing service (or even an aggregation of all existing cloud services) is "The Cloud".

The most common analogy to explain cloud computing is that of public utilities such as electricity, gas, and water. Just as centralized and standardized utilities free individuals from the difficulties of generating electricity or pumping water, cloud computing frees users from certain hardware and software installation and maintenance tasks through the use of simpler hardware that accesses a vast network of computing resources (processors, hard drives, etc.). The sharing of resources reduces the cost to individuals.

The phrase “cloud computing” originated from the cloud symbol that is usually used by flow charts and diagrams to symbolize the internet. The principle behind the cloud is that any computer connected to the internet is connected to the same pool of computing power, applications, and files. Users can store and access personal files such as music, pictures, videos, and bookmarks or play games or use productivity applications on a remote server rather than physically carrying around a storage medium such as a DVD or thumb drive. Almost all users of the internet may be using a form of cloud computing though few realize it. Those who use web-based email such as Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, a Company owned email, or even an e-mail client program such as Outlook, Evolution, Mozilla Thunderbird or Entourage that connects to a cloud email server. Hence, utilizing desktop applications to connect to your cloud email, is still considered a cloud application.