HCL ISD’s Cloud Consulting & Assessment services help customers successfully adopt Private Cloud or migrate to Public Cloud. These services encapsulate key aspects related to Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) in Cloud environment, IT infrastructure (including data center, network, security and such) and Cloud Management and Applications.
HCL Cloud Assessment Methodology

HCL ISD’s Cloud Consulting & Assessment services include:
- Phase 1: Exploration and Discovery: This phase involves understanding and collecting information regarding current environment and workloads. The environment understanding and the collated data allows to conduct an analysis of the current workloads for migration to Cloud environment.
- Phase 2: Analysis and Modeling: The information collected in Phase 1 is analyzed and modeled using predefined frameworks for assessment. The analysis is based on various parameters like governance, risk, compliance, technical application feasibility, cost and such. It helps in taking decisions on various workloads for their migration to Cloud.
- Phase 3: Suggestions, Recommendations and Roadmap: Phase 2 provides the customers with the much required output that highlights key suggestions and recommendations on aspects such as application migration, Cloud design and architecture, governance and compliance among others. This phase also provides a roadmap for Cloud adoption, which details the customers on how to approach Cloud implementation with respect to their current environment.
Success Case(s):
The leading Australian financial-services firm with operations across the globe —The U.S., the U.K and Asia Pacific, needed a service provider to study and recommend a Cloud Management solution based on its IT infrastructure requirements. The company appointed HCL ISD to provide Cloud Consulting & Assessment services for scalability and adherence to current ITIL-based processes as well as analysis of monitoring and management tools in adopting Cloud environment. Read more .
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