Hosting Strategy: Assessment

MAXIMIZING POTENTIAL: THE POWER OF CLOUD WORKLOAD ASSESSMENT

Comprehensive Workload Assessment: 

The Crucial First Step in Hosting Strategy Development

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Developing a robust hosting strategy begins with a comprehensive and thorough workload assessment. Whether your goal is to implement Software as a Service (SaaS), migrate to a public cloud, utilize a managed hybrid cloud, or opt for colocation, understanding your workloads is essential. At The Cavan Group, we specialize in assessing workloads to identify the optimal hosting environments.

Our assessment is based on several critical criteria:

Business Impact

We evaluate how each workload affects your business operations, focusing on its overall importance and how it aligns with your business objectives.

Business Criticality

Identifying workloads that are vital to your daily operations ensures that these critical components receive the highest level of attention and the most reliable hosting environments.

Compliance:

Adherence to industry regulations and standards is non-negotiable. We evaluate your workloads against relevant compliance requirements to ensure that your hosting strategy supports regulatory adherence, reducing the risk of non-compliance penalties.

Data Sovereignty:

We analyze your data’s geographical requirements to recommend hosting environments that respect and enforce data sovereignty.

Security:

Security is a top priority in our assessment. We evaluate the security requirements of your workloads, ensuring that sensitive data is protected, and potential vulnerabilities are addressed in the hosting strategy.

Application Suitability

We determine whether your applications are ready for the cloud or if they are legacy applications that require special considerations.

Cloud-Ready or Legacy Application?

We identify whether your applications are designed to leverage cloud environments or if they are legacy systems that may need specific adjustments to function optimally in a new hosting environment.

Is Refactoring Required?

Some applications might need to be refactored to perform efficiently in a cloud environment. We assess the extent of refactoring required, if any, and provide recommendations for making your applications cloud-ready.

Complexity:

We examine the complexity of your applications, identifying those with intricate configurations or dependencies that may affect their suitability for different hosting environments.

 

Technical Considerations

A multitude of technical aspects influence the choice of hosting environments, ensuring that all dependencies and requirements are accounted for.

Dependencies & Integration:

We analyze the dependencies and integration points of your workloads. Understanding these relationships is crucial for recommending hosting environments that can seamlessly integrate with your existing systems and processes.

Virtualized or Physical Server:

We determine whether your workloads are running on virtualized or physical servers. This distinction helps in choosing the appropriate hosting environment that supports the specific server type.

“Snowflake” - Unique Requirements:

Workloads with unique or unusual requirements, often referred to as "snowflakes," are carefully evaluated. We identify these unique needs to ensure that they are met in the chosen hosting environment.

Performance & Utilization: 

Assessing the performance and utilization metrics of your workloads allows us to recommend hosting environments that can handle your workloads efficiently, providing the necessary resources and scalability.

 

Financial

We assess the costs associated with hosting your workloads, ensuring that the strategy is not only effective but also cost-efficient.

Hosting Costs:

We evaluate the costs of various hosting environments, helping you understand the financial impact and make informed decisions that align with your budget and financial goals.

Licensing:

Licensing requirements can significantly influence hosting costs. We analyze your current licensing agreements and the potential costs of new licenses in different hosting environments.

Support:

The level of support provided by the hosting environment is essential. We assess the support options available, paid and inclusive, and their costs to ensure that your workloads receive the necessary assistance.

Maintenance:

Maintenance requirements and costs are evaluated to recommend hosting environments that minimize downtime and maintenance efforts.

Non-Functional Requirements

Non-functional requirements such as backup, high availability, disaster recovery, and isolation are also part of our comprehensive workload assessment.

Backup:

We evaluate your backup needs and recommend hosting environments that provide robust backup solutions to protect your data.

High Availability/Disaster Recovery (HA/DR):

Ensuring that your workloads remain available and recoverable in the event of a failure is critical. We assess the HA/DR capabilities of various hosting environments to recommend the best options.

Isolation:

We consider the isolation requirements of your workloads, ensuring that sensitive data and critical applications are isolated appropriately to enhance security and compliance.

How Does Cavan Work?

We're really focused on two major areas one is project management and the other is IT consulting and advisory. We get involved with the client on the front-end to assess their existing IT strategy, and follow through all the way to the execution and development of a data center.

John Martin Cavan Group, Founder.

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