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Building a highly customized enterprise cloud and transioning exisng infrastructure to that cloud takes me and planning. This guide maps out the transion on a visual meline broken into three major phases: 1) Starng the Journey, 2) During the Transion, and 3) Life in the Cloud. THE 14 MILESTONES IN THE powered by CLOUD ADOPTION TIMELINE

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Building a highly customized enterprise cloud and transitioning existing infrastructure to that cloud takes time and planning. This guide maps out the transition on a visual timeline broken into three major phases:1) Starting the Journey, 2) During the Transition, and 3) Life in the Cloud.

THE 14 MILESTONES IN THE

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CLOUD ADOPTION TIMELINE

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STARTING THE JOURNEY LIFE IN THE CLOUD

Begin Cloud Build-out

Decision to Adopt Cloud

Determine Cloud Goals

Architect Cloud Build-outPlan

Select Your CloudProvider

Technology continues to evolve, with nothing slowing it down. On top of that, your business is growing, and your IT infrastructure needs to adapt to handle increased workload volume and production demands. Whether you've already identified that cloud will help you solve these problems or you're just beginning to explore cloud's possibilities, you'll need to take some steps to get started.

DURING THE TRANSITION

Audit Existing Infastructure

Enhance Systems with Cloud

Identify Team Responsibilities

Communicate Pain Points

Cloud Build-outComplete

With the cloud, things will look a little different; your systems will be flexible and easy to manage. But transitioning to cloud doesn’t necessitate a radical change to how you accomplish your objectives. In some cases, it can effectively replace existing systems, while in others, it can work alongside and reinforce what’s already there.

Rapid Provisioning

Keeping Pace withTechnology

Operate in a CohesiveEnviroment

On-demand Support

It’s a good life. But how, exactly? What is it about your business that’s changed, and what are you now able to do? We’ll review a few of the advantages customers using TeraGo’s RackForce Enterprise Cloud can expect after their build-out to give you an idea.

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You’ll need to get decision-makers or fellow colleagues on board with the transition before getting anywhere. Enterprise cloud is designed to address and mitigate business risks surrounding:

• Costs and capital expenditures• Operational risks• Ongoing project and workload demands

Leverage this information when you present the argument to enable your business with a cloud infrastructure.

This is where you need to hold up a big mirror and take a good look at your business. Where are your biggest demands? Do you need access to sandbox environments optimized for development, or do you just need to ensure your data is securely backed up? Consult with IT management to identify and set what you want to preserve or improve in your cloud infrastructure.

A truly valuable cloud provider is going to act as a partner; they will be your guide on this cloud journey. Ask these questions when looking for a partner:

• Do they put enough emphasis on the security and preservation of my data?• Can they advise me on the best infrastructure design based on my priority needs?• As our business grows, will our partner grow with us?

Based on your cloud goals, you’ll need to assess which mission-critical operations are going to be sensitive to periods of downtime and strategize how to avoid or overcome that obstacle. Also consider security features, performance levels, and other attributes to meet your goals for productivity.

This evaluation will help you set the tangible schedule for your cloud transition and allow you to measure progress. In addition to time constraints, you’ll also be able to forecast what the budget spend dedicated to your build-out will look like.

With your goals set, your plan in hand, and a cloud partner by your side, it’s time to make your cloud vision a reality - you’re at the buildout stage. Dedicated, “white glove” support from your cloud partner during the onboarding process will be your key to success from here on out.

DECISION TO ADOPT CLOUD

DETERMINE CLOUD GOALS

ARCHITECT CLOUD BUILD-OUT PLAN

SELECT YOUR CLOUD PROVIDER

BEGIN CLOUD BUILD-OUT

STARTING THE JOURNEY

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Depending on your cloud goals, you will want to note what hardware and software systems are supporting your company’s:

• Workload or application development environment• Data storage systems• Remote employees• Production, sales, or customer service environments• Analytics or business intelligence systems• Voice systems

This is key to preserving familiar workflow during build-out and minimizing any need for retraining.

One of the greatest values of the cloud is that it can be customized; this is your cloud. Working with your cloud partner to identify which elements of your existing system can be strengthened with or replaced by cloud will have multiple cost benefits. One of the most visible benefits is the ability to consolidate costs under one budget dedicated to operational expenditures. By completely eliminating hardware components, you’ll effectively free up budget previously tied to capital expenditures and system maintenance.

As your enterprise’s staff becomes acclimated with their new cloud-based environment, there are bound to be a few questions or unfamiliar challenges that should be addressed. Just because you’ve completed your cloud implementation doesn’t mean that your partner will leave you to figure it out – communicate with the team who has been there for every step of the way so they can make tweaks that better suit the way your internal staff works.

Your cloud partner isn’t just there to add off-site resources to the mix. A valuable partner will work closely alongside your internal IT staff to optimize the cloud infrastructure, help build system elements, and essentially shoulder the load. Have a conversation with all team members to set roles and responsibilities for a smooth transition.

Congratulations! You’ve transformed your infrastructure to become more flexible and powerful than ever. With this new power comes new abilities that will bring your enterprise to a whole new level of profitability and efficiency. Let's explore what some of these abilities are in the next phase - Life in the Cloud.

AUDITEXISTING INFASTRUCTURE

ENHANCE SYSTEMS WITH CLOUD

IDENTIFY TEAM RESPONSIBILITIES

COMMUNICATE PAIN POINTS

CLOUD BUILD-OUT COMPLETE

DURING THE TRANSITION

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With a simple selection and click of a mouse, you can build up or scale down your entire resource pool. What used to take weeks of planning and implementing will now take only minutes. Making actions like adding IaaS resources or changing team roles easier than ever, and this newfound agility makes you more attractive and capable of meeting customers’ needs.

Purchasing a hardware system, like servers, storage, remote switches for example, was always a risk for two reasons: it required a significant capital investment, and with technology’s rapid rate of change, it could be rendered obsolete overnight. By taking these systems and exchanging them for virtual tools, the burden and risk of investment is mitigated and even eliminated, allowing you to keep up with competitors – or stay ahead. Your new hosted cloud system will stay current and updated with just a mouse click or a quick call to your cloud partner. No more equipment changeovers and no more hassle.

24 hours a day and 7 days a week, TeraGo’s Account Executives and Technical Support team members are available for you. With the cloud, security and system health is more important than ever. Your cloud partner should have a live representative available to receive and assess technical queries, provide information on performance data, administer system health reports, or answer any other questions about billing and your account. The TeraGo team monitors systems in real time to identify and correct any issues, giving customers the confidence that resources will be available 99.99% of the time in a given month. These services are all just part of what it means to have fully managed enterprise hybrid cloud with TeraGo.

Without cloud infrastructure, projects that are conceptualized, designed, and built in a business’s development environment don’t always work as intended. This leads to a higher demand for support, as well as production delays stemming from troubleshooting. TeraGo’s RackForce cloud environment is standardized for all team members, reducing and even eliminating these delays at every stage of production.

RAPID PROVISIONING

KEEPINGPACE WITH TECHNOLOGY

OPERATE INA COHESIVE ENVIROMENT

ON-DEMAND SUPPORT

LIFE IN THE CLOUD

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