Cloud Readiness Flight-Check


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EMC Cloud Readiness Flight-Check Brochure

Cloud Readiness Flight-Check

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Cloud Readiness Flight-Check Thank you for completing EMC’s quick online self-assessment and evaluating your organization’s readiness for the cloud. This Cloud Readiness Flight-Check brochure helps you consider your cloud readiness in these key areas: • Strategy & Organization • Architecture & Infrastructure • Applications & Technologies • Process & Automation Get ready for take-off on your cloud journey...

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Strategy & Organization Key questions: • What is your organization’s level of interest in cloud computing? • How developed is your organization’s cloud computing strategy? • How would you describe your organization’s alignment of IT and business on cloud computing? • What level of support and buy-in is there for cloud computing within your organization? • What commitment is there to cloud-related skills management and training within your organization?

How EMC can help improve your cloud readiness in this area... Transforming your business with the cloud Unlock the full potential of your business and how it can take advantage of the cloud. EMC technologies can help you to expand your cloud to a hybrid cloud so you can leverage external services and applications from compatible service providers. EMC and its partners can assist you with services designed to optimize your organization-wide transformation smoothly and efficiently. New business models Cloud computing has emerged to address more than just your IT challenges. EMC Partners can help you use the cloud to transform IT from a cost center into a business catalyst, dramatically improving organization agility. New roles Forming a team of experienced architects is a priority on the journey to the cloud. With Education Services provided either by EMC Partners or EMC, you can assemble a team of trusted cloud advisors to plan and design your highly optimized cloud infrastructure.

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Architecture & Infrastructure Key questions: • What is your level of x86 server virtualization? • How is your organization leveraging the benefits of cloud computing? • How standardized is your private cloud platform? • How do you ensure your data is protected in your private cloud environment? • How would you categorize your overall security/compliance approach for cloud computing? How EMC can help improve your cloud readiness in this area... Transforming your cloud infrastructure Make your infrastructure simpler to manage and more efficient to operate. Building your cloud begins with virtualization. EMC technologies can make your virtual infrastructure simpler to manage and more efficient to operate. Industry-leading performance, a wide range of virtualization solutions, and the highest degree of VMware integration means lower costs, improved service delivery, and the foundation to deliver IT-as-a-service. EMC and its team of trusted partners can take you step by step to your cloud. Simple, efficient storage EMC offers high-performing unified storage platforms with unsurpassed simplicity and efficiency. The EMC storage family is designed specifically for the demands of virtual environments and optimized for virtual applications. Next generation backup EMC next-generation backup and recovery solutions are optimized for virtual environments. Fully integrated with VMware, our industry-leading, disk-optimized solutions speed backup, simplify recovery, and save resources.

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Applications & Technologies Key questions: • To what extent have you virtualized your core applications? • Are you designing new applications to be integrated with virtualization? • What is the level of your usage/deployment of cloud-based applications? • How do you manage your desktop infrastructure for end user computing? • How does your organization gain maximum value from unstructured file data? How EMC can help improve your cloud readiness in this area... Transforming your mission-critical applications Mission-critical applications require the most powerful, efficient, end-to-end, virtualized environment. EMC technologies and our partners’ expertise can help you build your cloud so that it delivers the most demanding service levels for scalability, continuity, and security. With EMC technology, your cloud is more powerful, efficient, trusted, and smart. Build your cloud to deliver improved quality of service with greater flexibility and agility than ever before with our proven approach and solutions. Effective virtualization EMC provides validated solutions that can help you to more quickly and efficiently leverage the underlying infrastructure while enabling a high service level for your business-critical applications and databases. Expert virtualization EMC’s partners have a deep understanding of both applications and virtual environments. Virtualization services offered by our partners can help you improve your applications' performance, increase availability, improve recoverability, and simplify manageability. End user computing Bring new simplicity, power, and efficiency to end-user computing—any user, any device, anywhere. Leverage our partners’ expertise in building and deploying Virtual Desktop Infrastructures – they’ve done it for 100’s of customers just like you. New opportunities EMC technologies and our partners’ expertise can help you to leverage big data and big data analytics to uncover new business value and enable new ways for your business to exploit that value.

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Process & Automation Key questions: • How would you describe your cloud IT management process? • What is your current level of automation in IT provisioning? • How would you best describe your level of self-service and chargeback of IT? • What level of reporting and visibility of IT consumption is in place? • How would you categorize your governance process for cloud computing? How EMC can help improve your cloud readiness in this area... Powerful cloud management EMC and our Partners deliver cloud-based management and automation technologies that are agile, flexible and dynamic. You can simplify management; maximize operational efficiency, and increase IT and business agility without losing control. Intelligent cloud automation Our virtualization and cloud management solutions provide new levels of automation and policy-based service assurance at every layer of a modern IT architecture. This automated, intelligent, policy-driven management is an intrinsic part of the system and uses an open, standards-based approach to ensure freedom of choice through management interoperability with ecosystem partners and cloud interoperability across service providers. Our management solutions can help accelerate your journey to the cloud. Secure and control your cloud With solutions from RSA, The Security Division of EMC, organizations can control security, governance and compliance across physical and virtual infrastructures—building the foundation for cloud computing.

Contact us For more information about accelerating your journey to the cloud, contact your local EMC Velocity Solution Provider.

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