Cloud Assessment Tool

Persistent’s Cloud Assessment tool helps customers address common cloud enablement related challenges such as:

• What to move?
• When to move?
• Where to move?
• When to move to other platforms?
• How to move?

The following are the migration steps followed:

1. Discover applications and services from company infrastructure
2. Understand usage trends and business impact of applications
3. Categorize and Prioritize applications suitable for Cloud
4. Assess ROI impact to finalize prioritization

Assessment Tool Features

• Heuristics for workload/application fit for cloud platforms
  • Business fit – takes into account business criticality, SLA requirements, security, legal and regulatory restrictions
  • Architecture fit – understands distributed architecture, scaling requirements and performance requirements
  • Technology fit – provides recommendation for cloud platforms based on technology stack
  • Cost of migration– estimates cost and migration effort
• Backed by data from performance and resource consumption metrics
  • Nature of workload – analyzes data to identify trends and patterns
  • Usage patterns – categorizes applications based on specific usage patterns observed over a period of time
  • Loaded cost of running the workload on cloud – compares cost for on-premise deployment vs. cloud platforms to determine best ROI