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In today’s fast-paced business environment where changes to the IT infrastructure are continuous and real-time, adopting a cloud strategy is of paramount importance. Cloud implementation services combine a tailor-made approach and a comprehensive strategy for migrating to the cloud. With Digital Transformation at the core, Cloud implementation services deliver solutions to ensure organizational goals such as cost efficiency, scalability, security, and flexibility are of prime focus.
While it is critical for businesses to have a cloud strategy, it is equally important to have the right cloud implementation services partner. The cost of making an incomplete or failed migration could have a severe hit on business and hence it is vital to get your cloud strategy right, The First Time.
Now, how do you decide the right fit cloud implementation services partner? Some of the common pointers while assessing a cloud provider are listed below.
- Alignment to business objectives: As organizations try to adopt cloud strategies, multiple goals such as speed and agility, cost savings, scalability, reachability, coverage, savings, and flexibility are put in place. The right cloud implementation services partner should be able to understand core business and business priorities while creating the cloud strategy and aligning it with organizational goals with manageable risks.
- Responsiveness and Agreements: Organizations should identify and convince how responsive are their cloud partner. This is of high importance as responsiveness (close to real-time) is critical for the continuous and steady function of your cloud strategy. Organizations and cloud implementation services partners should have clarity of services and deliverables with a clear and simple service level agreement (SLA) in place.
- Certifications, Expertise, and Experience: Cloud implementation services partner with recognized frameworks, accelerators, and certifications add to the credibility and demonstrate adherence to industry best practices and standards. In summary, an established cloud partner will understand how the provider plans his migration strategy and aligns their process, people, and technology in line with the organizational goals.
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Use of Technology and Roadmap: Ensure that the cloud implementation services partner tech stack and platforms and in line with your IT environment and will support your journey to adopt cloud. It is also important to make sure that the partner's cloud architectures, standards, and services suit your workload and management preferences.
Depending on the organization's cloud strategy, it is important for the partner to define a service roadmap that includes continuous development, innovation, and growth over time. - Data Management and Information Security: Data management- While organizations may already have their data policies in place, it is important that the cloud implantation services partner has the cloud journey strategy well aligned with organizational policies, federal laws, and other data privacy rules governing personal data. The cloud partner should be able to assess, understand, and evaluate the impact of data loss and have a defined process to understand breach notification, and organizational risk appetite and handle regulatory obligations.
- Information security: It's highly important to assess the cloud implementation partners on their levels of data security, maturity of operational security, and security around the governance processes. The cloud partners' security controls and protocols should be risk-free and complement or align with the organization's security policies and processes.
Moving workloads to cloud can bring substantial benefits to organizations however it also depends on the right choice of cloud implementation services partner. Organizations need to include both hard and soft factors while assessing a cloud partner – it is important to validate standards, certifications, lock-in terms, support, contracts, and SLAs. In summary, a cloud partner who can understand and optimize an organization’s journey to the cloud and get right – The First Time.
About Marlabs
Marlabs designs and develops digital solutions that help our clients improve their digital outcomes. We deliver new business value through custom application development, advanced software engineering, digital-first strategy & advisory services, digital labs for rapid solution incubation and prototyping, and agile engineering to build and scale digital solutions. Our offerings help leading companies around the world make operations sleeker, keep customers closer, transform data into decisions, de-risk cyberspace, boost legacy system performance, and seize novel opportunities and new digital revenue streams.
Marlabs is headquartered in New Jersey, with offices in the US, Germany, Canada, Brazil and India. Its 2500+ global workforce includes highly experienced technology, platform, and industry specialists from the world’s leading technical universities.
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