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Workload alignment

Aligning workloads with the right platforms helps you modernize IT and support digital transformation.

Businesses are at a competitive inflection point where effective technology use is a critical differentiator.

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Questions, complexity and clarity

IT landscapes are more complicated than ever. Mounting demands on IT and how it’s expected to serve the business are growing. Meanwhile, platform options abound is causing organizational confusion about the best path forward.

When seeking to optimize infrastructure, common questions come up:

  • How do we compare cloud costs to current enterprise costs?
  • What is the right cloud deployment model? Public or private cloud? Platform as a Service (PaaS)? Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)?
  • Which workloads should be in the cloud?
  • What hybrid models would work best for our business?
  • How do we operationalize and manage cloud alongside on-premises environments?

You need a roadmap and a partner. When you work with Insight on your workload alignment, you'll understand your options, prioritize objectives and define and reach a target destination that improves agility today and prepares you for the future.

How workload alignment works

Businesses must use multiple platforms to maximize effectiveness. But which workloads go where? Hear from our experts on what workload alignment is and why it’s useful.

A validated methodology

Our proven process helps business leaders understand their IT estates and platform options to ensure an effective data and workload migration. The result: enterprise-wide digital transformation powered by a modern IT environment that is orchestrated, automated, managed and secure.

At each stage of your infrastructure modernization journey, we’ll help you:

  • Discover, assess and report on your environment using SnapStart and human-powered review and analysis.
  • Define business and technical requirements, drivers, costs and change readiness.
  • Hone IT and cloud strategy inclusive of security, talent, resources and timelines.
  • Outline an optimized future state, roadmap and recommendations to move forward.
  • Migrate workloads, implement and integrate technologies, and adapt processes and user groups to the new environment.
  • Measure and maintain service levels and security across all platforms.

Key benefits of workload alignment

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Understand your application landscape.

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Develop high-level application lifecycles and cloud migration plans.

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Assess and understand current costs.

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Determine financial implications of alternative hosting scenarios.

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Create a business case for workload transformation.

Support for your cloud transformation

Cloud is the engine for agility, scalability and innovation — attributes that all competitive organizations need. Achieving the value of the cloud requires planned approaches that combine intentional strategy and successful execution, followed by ongoing cloud management and optimization.

Whether your organization is on a cloud-first trajectory or working toward a hybrid model, workload alignment plays a critical role in your journey. Our team can show you how the right workload alignment supports:

  • Simplified scaling and capacity adjustments
  • Improved governance and compliance
  • Enhanced service delivery
  • Improved decision-making capabilities
  • Increased cost control

Modernize your infrastructure.

We’ll help you assess, deploy and manage your next-generation infrastructure — and align your workloads with the right platform to achieve agility. Connect with our specialists to start your transformation journey.

 

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