This document provides guidance on adopting cloud computing and determining if cloud is the right solution. It outlines key questions to consider regarding business and IT needs such as reducing costs, having flexible resources, modernizing infrastructure, and meeting environmental targets. The document recommends a cloud adoption assessment service to evaluate the current situation, identify risks and benefits of moving to cloud, and provide recommendations. It also offers services to design cloud solutions aligned with requirements and create migration plans to implement cloud services.

1. Is cloud right for you?
A guide to adopting cloud computing
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2. What direction is your IT taking?
• Is your business being driven to reduce costs?
• Do you need agile IT resource to regularly provision and
decommission multiple servers?

3. Consider your requirements
• Does your IT estate require modernisation?
• Does your data centre have capacity or upgrade issues?
• Do you want to reduce your use of physical servers?

4. • Do you need to comply with CO2 emission targets?
• Does your existing hosting lack committed SLAs?
• Do you have CAPEX issues with new IT procurement?

5. • Does your website need to meet peaks in demand?
• Do you need improved disaster recovery?
• Can your business manage „pay-as-you-go‟ invoicing?

6. If you answered ‘yes’ to more than one
of those questions – then cloud can
probably benefit you.

7. Still not sure if cloud is right for you?
Ask us about our Cloud Adoption Assessment Service.
It‟s specially designed to:
• Assess your current situation
• Identify the risks, costs and benefits of moving to cloud
• Produce a high level solution design with roadmap and
timescales
• Present our recommendations to your key stakeholders

8. “Ok, so I want to move to the
cloud, where do I start?”
Are your services, old and new, ready
to run in the cloud?

9. Our Cloud Service Design will:
• Summarise your business and functional requirements
• Design a service that‟s aligned to your requirements
• Include a high level implementation plan with timescales
and costs
• Feature a presentation to key stakeholders

10. Right let‟s do this!
Migrating to cloud can be the hardest step
We‟ll help create a detailed migration plan
And if you like it, we‟ll implement it!

12. Find out if cloud is right for
you, and how to get there if it is
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