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Cloud computing offers unparalleled speed and agility. But, leveraging cloud without a decisive framework for managing cloud services will lead to disappointing results. To thrive in the cloud, you need control. How do you balance performance and cost in a complex IT environment?
“According to Gartner, 65% of application workloads will be optimal or ready for cloud delivery by 2027, up from 45% in 2022.”
– Gartner Press Release, May 2023
(And we all thought we were there already!)
How we can help
CloudRight™ FrameworkTHE CLOUD FRAMEWORK THAT WORKS
CloudRight™ is a comprehensive framework for maximizing the full potential of cloud services. It empowers IT with the right cloud strategy, adoption framework, and IT environment optimized for your business needs, enabling you to:
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FOUR Components make up the CloudRight™ Framework
01. CloudRight™ Strategy
Develops a cloud strategy aligned to your corporate strategy to ensure IT is equipped to deliver consistent results for the business.
Delivers a cloud strategy document that outlines your business case, scope, future goals, adoption time line, costs, and go-forward cloud strategy.
02. CloudRight™ Adoption
Implements an application-level decision framework to quickly scale cloud services in a controlled process that mitigates risk and cloud waste.
Provides a clear and decisive path for cloud adoption, including cloud and application architecture and a governance model for cloud management.
03. CloudRight™ MIGRATION
Follows a proven methodology to safely move workloads to the cloud without disrupting critical business operations.
Migrates workloads to the cloud while providing a revised operational support model and standardized cloud environment for innovation.
04. CloudRight™ Optimization
Assesses and optimizes your cloud deployments to ensure performance, cost-efficiency, and business-IT alignment.
Reduces infrastructure complexity and risk with a cloud operational model, cost management plan, and optimized IT environment.
Discrete Cloud Services
Cloud Strategy and Readiness
Be Intentional. Performance of infrastructure, workloads and applications in a cost effective manner is essential whether it is a cloud native, hybrid, private or public. Utilize our services to create a strategy to balance the benefits of cloud with the proper understanding of risks to ensuring successful cloud adoption and operation at scale.
HYBRID INFRASTRUCTURE
Step into the Future of Hybrid Excellence!
We can help you seamlessly blend on-premises, cloud and edge environments, optimizing performance, workload delivery, scalability, while improving manageability and customer experience.
Welcome to a realm where innovation is unlimited, empowering your digital journey.
WHITEPAPER:
Align Hybrid IT Strategy to Business Goals
Edge Computing
Edge computing is a distributed computing framework that brings enterprise applications closer to sources of information, where things and people produce or consume that information.
DKGIT can assist you in reaping the benefits of edge environments, providing a more resilient architecture, improved customer experience, and easier compliance with local privacy statutes
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Cloud Business Office (CBO)
Need expertise? Our CBO framework can help assess your cloud readiness, develop cloud migration roadmaps, evaluate cloud security measures, optimize cloud spending, provide cloud training and support, and help you foster innovation through cloud technologies.
Cloud Vendor Optimization
Avoid vendor lock-in and still negotiate favorable rates. At DKGIT, our proven framework delivers tangible results, including significant cost savings, streamlined processes, and enhanced innovation. By reducing complexity and eliminating redundant vendors, we help your organization to focus on strategic initiatives and drive meaningful growth. Ready to transform your vendor relationships and achieve measurable results? Partner with us today.
Value Realization Office (VRO)
DKGIT offers a complete service to establish your Value Realization Office (VRO). A VRO will help you focus on achieving and validating the value expected from your investments, initiatives, or portfolios. Our approach will help you maximize the return on investment (ROI) and achieve strategic objectives by actively managing and measuring the outcomes and benefits of various activities undertaken by your organization
Cloud Talent Assessment and roadmaping
Be honest about available talent. This is the breadth of skills required to make cloud computing work:
- Coding and Computer Programming: Proficiency in languages like Python, Java, or Go is essential.
- Cloud Computing: Understand cloud platforms and services.
- Knowledge of Operating Systems: Familiarity with OS concepts.
- Database Management: Skills in managing databases.
- Debugging and Quality Assurance: Ability to identify and fix issues.
- Performing Software Tests: Testing cloud solutions.
- DevOps and Containerization: Knowledge of DevOps practices and container technologies.
- Problem-Solving Skills: Critical thinking and troubleshooting abilities.
- Communication: Effective communication and collaboration
Let’s assess where you are today. Let’s build a roadmap that fills the gaps with the right balance of employees and contractors, experienced high-end performers, and junior but trainable staff.
Cloud Cost Optimization
It never stops. Here are just ten of the areas we’ll address during our study on reducing cloud costs:
01. Performance analysis
02. Continuous monitoring
03. Investments in automation
04. Right-sizing storage and monitor
05. Flag over provisioning
06. Correct inefficient code
07. Assign inventory owners
08. Manage shadow IT
09. Review and revamp support contracts
10. Manage your licenses
Partners
AZURE
Microsoft Azure offers a comprehensive suite of services and tools to ensure your cloud services operate smoothly and securely. With our expertise and Azure’s powerful platform, your enterprise will be empowering your business to thrive in the digital landscape.
AWS
Backed by industry-leading infrastructure, we allow you to focus on growth and innovation while we handle the technical aspects. With our expertise and AWS’s powerful services, your enterprise will deliver exceptional performance, reliability, and security to your users.
GOOGLE CLOUD
Google Cloud Platform provides access to a robust set of services and tools to ensure your enterprise operates seamlessly and securely. With our expertise and Google’s innovative platform, your team will be empowered to succeed in the digital era.
Business IQ
PODCAST
CURING CLOUD CONFUSION
It’s in the cloud.” I am sure you have heard that many times. But what does it really mean? Where exactly are your sensitive applications and data going? Especially the mission-critical ones? Are they somewhere in cyberspace? Who has access to them? As an executive, you should know where your systems are and how they are being managed. In many cases, providers say they are putting you into the cloud when in reality, they are not. By educating yourself on these terms and staying tuned in to this video series on ‘Curing Cloud Confusion’, you will be able to tell the difference between “being in the cloud” and being managed by a services provider.
Case StudY
STRATEGIC GOAL
MANAGE MULTI-CLOUD SPRAWL, ESTABLISH STANDARDS, AND REDUCE COSTS
Client: Fortune 500 health insurance company in the U.S.
Challenge: Cloud sprawl caused cost overruns and lack of uniformity in cloud platform services
Industry: Healthcare / Insurance
Region of Operations: United States
Platforms: AWS, Azure, Google
Solution
Optimization of multi-cloud platforms involved continuous monitoring, right-sizing storage, identifying and correcting over-provisioning, addressing inefficient architectural decisions, and leveraging various instance types. Implemented tagging standards and cost reporting to provide insights into spending trends, patterns, cost drivers, and allocation across different teams or departments. It includes:
- Correcting inefficient architectural decisions through reviews and optimization.
- Continuous monitoring using third party and native tools to track usage and costs.
- Right-sizing storage by analyzing patterns and implementing proper data lifecycle policies to effectively manage data storage needs.
- Flagging over-provisioning by reviewing utilization metrics and enforcing limits.
- Leveraging reserved, spot, and on-demand instances based on workload characteristics.
- Identified training and awareness programs to educate teams on cost implications and best practices.
STRATEGIC RESULTS
Optimization of this multi-cloud enterprise platform environment resulted in cost savings of 30%. These savings were achieved through various initiatives:
- Improved efficiency and performance by correcting inefficient architectural decisions.
- Optimized storage management by reducing unnecessary storage costs while ensuring data availability and accessibility.
- Prevention of overprovisioning by regular utilization reviews and enforcement of limits.
- Cost effective instance management via leveraging reserved, spot, and on-demand instances based on workload characteristics.
- Increased transparency and accountability through the implementation of tagging standards and cost reporting.
- Empowered teams with cost awareness by identifying training and awareness programs to educate teams on cost implications and best practices.