Teton Cloud Consulting helps clients exit traditional data centers by designing and executing secure, low-risk transitions to cloud environments, reducing cost and complexity.
Why Consider Transformation
As organizations look to adopt modern cloud services, clients need to revisit their cloud adoption and data center strategy. Transformation is a crucial part of the conversation.
For growing organizations, transformation and/or consolidation offer a viable way to achieve one or more critical goals. Reducing your data center footprint and centralizing your infrastructure enables you to modernize your technology platform to support native cloud services, streamline management, and optimize consumption and performance — all of which may contribute to lower costs and improved scalability for growth.
Common Drivers:
Reducing resource consumption
Improving Environmental sustainability
Increasing performance & scalability
Managing cloud & network costs
Supporting modern technologies (AI/ML)
Meeting customer demand
Engaging in M&A and/or divestiture activities
Enhancing resiliency with BC/DR
Business Benefits
- Simplified management
- Improved visibility and control
- Reduced operational expenses
- Stronger risk management
- Increased business agility
- Enhanced compliance
Are You a Candidate for Transformation
Transformation initiatives, such as data center consolidation and modernization via the cloud, are particularly critical for organizations pursuing accelerated growth, executing complex activities like M&A and divestitures, or seeking to adopt AI and cloud-based capabilities. A well-executed strategy, as seen in the scenario of a midsize company dealing with cobbled-together post-M&A architecture, solves immediate issues like outdated infrastructure and high complexity while delivering a ripple effect of positive outcomes.
While the primary driver might be improved performance and scalability, the modernization effort ultimately results in simplified management, increased agility, enhanced security, better business continuity, stronger risk management, reduced operational costs, and the foundational ability to embrace new cloud initiatives.
We Help Your Business Ensure an Intelligent Cloud Strategy
Transformation is an involved process and not a project to be undertaken lightly. With a smart strategy in place, you can expect a clear roadmap, fast progress, and reliable outcomes. Teton Cloud identifies your challenges and delivers a simple, intelligent transformation strategy.
Common Transformation Challenges:
Downtime & Business Disruption
Migrating data and applications is a delicate task — even minimal downtime can have significant negative impacts on the business.
Application & Systems Complexity
Data centers often contain a mix of hardware, software, and apps, introducing challenges related to outdated systems, lack of integrations, and more.
Security Concerns
Consolidating your resources concentrates critical data, potentially creating a bigger target for cyberattacks and necessitating strong backup and disaster recovery.
Up-Front Costs & Resource Demands
Transformation promises long-term savings, but the initial investment can be significant and requires expert guidance to ensure best-fit solutions and ROI.
The Three Pillars of Transformation: Your Keys to Planning Success
The safest and most effective transformation is achieved with a trusted partner guiding your teams through every phase. Partnering with Teton Cloud Consulting ensures you benefit from expert input on your strategic roadmap, experienced professionals for seamless execution, and seasoned support to quickly navigate unexpected roadblocks.
Q: How complex will my transformation journey be?
A: Find out with an Application Rationalization Scorecard.
Application Rationalization
Quickly gain a clear understanding of your current state and best next steps with an assessment questionnaire that helps you align your application landscape to the six R’s.
Teton Cloud Consulting offers an Application Rationalization Scorecard for this purpose, helping you expedite assessment, scope project complexity, and prioritize migration activities.
We’ll help you determine how to disposition your applications and gain a better understanding of the due diligence required to complete a data center consolidation or transformation project. As a result, you’ll benefit from a clear view of your current-state environment, reduced effort to get your project underway, and strategic recommendations for implementation.
The Six R’s
- REHOST
Lift-and-cleanse: Move current assets to a new provider with minimal disruption. - RETIRE
Decommission: Remove applications that are no longer needed or relevant. - RETAIN
Left on premise: Some applications may not be suitable for migration and are best left on premise. - REFACTOR
Refactor/Rearchitect: Complete redesign of the application to take advantage of cloud-native. - REPURCHASE
Repurchase/Replace: Adopt new cloud-native versions or SaaS platforms. - REPLATFORM
Lift, tinker, and shift: Involves minor adjustments to applications to leverage cloud benefits.
Q: What will it cost to modernize on-prem data centers with a move to cloud?
A: Find out with a professional Platform Costing Estimate (PCE) engagement.
Platform Costing Estimate
It’s unrealistic to move forward with a large-scale project without having a clear idea of the potential costs. Before making a decision, you need a simple way to estimate the different costs of your various migration options.
Teton Cloud Consulting offers a PCE engagement to help you determine how much your journey will cost, providing like-for-like estimates for cloud as well as a single hosted provider with colocation-provided infrastructure.
We’ll help you assess your platform options and related costs, giving you a rapid analysis of potential operating costs, resource consumption, and platform alignment. This helps you focus more of your energy on complex planning decisions, ensuring you have all the data needed up front to make the best choice for your business.
Q: How do I get full visibility of all my assets and their interconnectedness?
A: Conduct a tool-assisted inventory, including asset discovery and application mapping.
Application & Dependency Mapping
Quickly gain a clear understanding of your current state and best next steps with an assessment questionnaire that helps you align your application landscape to the six R’s.
Teton Cloud Consulting offers an Application Rationalization Scorecard for this purpose, helping you expedite assessment, scope project complexity, and prioritize migration activities.
We’ll help you determine how to disposition your applications and gain a better understanding of the due diligence required to complete a data center consolidation or transformation project. As a result, you’ll benefit from a clear view of your current-state environment, reduced effort to get your project underway, and strategic recommendations for implementation.
How it Works
- INTRODUCTION
The discovery process is conducted through a proven auto-discovery tool set that runs in the background while you maintain business as usual. - INSTALLATION
We’ll send you an install package with simple instructions to begin the data collection process. Our team will help finalize scanning parameters and offer assistance for any technical concerns. - IMPORT
When scans are complete, our team will archive and import your data to our database, where we will validate your data and create reporting and analysis deliverables. - INVENTORY REPORT
Our team will analyze the data gathered and create detailed reports,
an executive summary, and action items for next steps.
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We Offer a Host of Solutions:
Cloud Transformation
Program Management & Delivery Quality
Resiliency & Security
Data & Artificial Intelligence
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