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Cloud computing has emerged as a critical enabler to contemporary IT strategies focused on cost management, business services management, variabilization of fixed costs, and implementing asset-reduction strategies to increase overall business agility. Infrastructure and physical assets are increasingly perceived as a drag on business agility. Cloud computing offers a way to offload physical infrastructure and increase agility while controlling costs. Cloud computing offers a range of strategic business and IT objectives, as listed below: Business agility through asset-reduction strategies Variabilization of fixed costs Data center consolidation, server consolidation Cloud service brokerage/SOA in the Cloud Cloud-mobile fusion, mobile Cloud Big data and Cloud analytics Cloud-enabled agility AgilePath's Cloud computing practice will accelerate your Cloud journey, from Cloud strategy and assessments, to Cloud architecture and vendor selection, to implementation, management and Cloud governance. AgilePath's Cloud computing practice focuses on the full lifecycle of Cloud computing from strategy and planning through Cloud modeling, architecture and design, to implementation and support. Key elements of our Cloud practice include our newest Playbook solution -- AgilePath's Cloud Computing Playbook, as well as our Cloud Computing Reference Model (CC-RM) and reference architecture framework.
AgilePath also provides Cloud research and advisory services which include financial analysis, business case analysis, strategic scenario planning, Cloud market/industry analysis, Cloud vendor evaluation and selection, and ongoing mentoring and support.
computing makes sense in your enterprise. AgilePath's; Cloud Computing Playbook is illustrated below:
AgilePath's Cloud Computing Playbook will be used to develop a Cloud computing reference model and reference architecture that will facilitate your migration to a private, hybrid or public Cloud deployment, based on architecture best practice industry standards for APIs. Even public Cloud migrations will benefit from a Cloud reference model and reference architecture, to help you understand what your Cloud service providers offer, and what the migration risks are when you make the decision to move to a public Cloud or hybrid Cloud model.
Benefits of the SOA-in-the-Cloud/Cloud Services Brokerage Solution: Realize SOA and Cloud computing as integrated strategies and enterprise architectures for your enterprise, which saves time and leverages the best-of-breed from both technology solutions. Templated CSB reference model and reference architecture artifacts that will compress your time to value via the Cloud Services Brokerage operating model. Supports hosted SOA infrastructure and services via third-party Cloud service providers, which enables you to focus on business requirements, business process management and other more business-aligned needs.
Cloud analytics strategy and roadmap to craft your approach to Big Data and Cloud analytics Cloud analytics reference model and reference architecture Cloud analytics POC, pilots and implementations Integrating Cloud analytics with traditional business intelligence architectures
AgilePath's SOLAR Cloud Playbook for Cloud migration of legacy data and applications
AgilePath offers the SOLARCloud playbook as a packaged methodology for legacy application migration to the Cloud. AgilePath's SOLARCloud Playbook is a companion methodology to the SOLAR Playbook for legacy application modernization via SOA. Together, these two playbooks
offer a best-of-breed approach to application migration, leveraging the most contemporary industry best practices for SOA and Cloud. The SOLARCloud Playbook and the SOLAR Playbook both leverage AgilePath's quad modeling to accelerate the decomposition of legacy applications to facilitate the modernization process, and help make the appropriate choice legacy-to-SOA, legacy-to-Cloud, or both.
AgilePath DevOps experts will work with your organization to assess your current IT development and IT operations capabilities, determine your DevOps readiness, and devise a structured DevOps pilot project that will demonstrate the power of DevOps for your organization in a controlled-scope proof of concept (POC). Based on lessons learned during the DevOps pilot, AgilePath will work with you to devise an enterprise DevOps strategy and roadmap, with the appropriate implementation support, change management, governance and metrics to drive the migration toward this exciting approach. Bottom line: Your organization will reap the benefits of rapid software development and release processes through AgilePath's Enterprise DevOps practice.
services include public Clouds provided by third party Cloud service providers, private Clouds deployed internally, and hybrid Clouds that integrate public and private Cloud deployments.