At Automated Horizons we have a thorough understanding of cloud capabilities and operating in a highly agile environment. A key factor of a cloud solution is to weigh the pros and cons of refactoring, rehosting and replatforming your environment, to determine the return on investment.
- Software as a Service (SasS)- Eliminates the need to install software across the enterprise, consolidating the level of effort with maintenance tasks
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) – Inherit components of the cloud, while benefiting from increased scalability and availability
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)–Manage all applications, data, storage and networking components
Cloud Migrations
Automated Horizons has completed several cloud transformations. An effective cloud migration must first consist of a cloud assessment. A critical component of a cloud solution is determining if the migration will optimize resources and cost.
- Discover- Review the current environment, document all applications, architecture, and policies needed to achieve business goals
- Analyze – Determine the risk of migrating the infrastructure
- Strategize – Document the future-state architecture, prioritizing technology implementations, based on costs
- Execute – Establish cloud governance and metrics
Cloud Security
Application Security, data protection, governance, and infrastructure security are vital to an organizations cloud implementation. Automated Horizons has cloud engineers that will review your cloud configuration, to determine your security posture aligned against cloud controls, based on secure benchmarks. Governance is needed to develop policies and standards to hold the cloud providers accountable for applications and data that are located remotely.