There are two common issues that customers have to deal with after they decide on a converged infrastructure. One is to decide which applications to move to the new environment to get the most of their investment. The second is dealing with the long, drawn-out process that typical consultants, or their internal staff, have to go through to identify the right apps for converged infrastructure.
So you have your shiny, new converged infrastructure, now what?
You need to decide which applications will benefit the most from your new converged infrastructure. You probably don’t have any cycles to free up to do the long, manual analysis, so you ask the major consultants in the market for help. They come back to you with this big ticket proposal that is projected to take months. You can’t wait that long…you need to show some quick wins with associated ROI!
An Automated Option
You hear about this automated option that allows you to quickly identify the applications that are best suited for your converged infrastructure. You figure this is a typical marketing hype with lots of promises and little in the way of meaningful results. How can Dell EMC do this in a matter of weeks when everyone else, including your own internal IT team tells you that it will take months? You are skeptical.
The Methodology
Using proprietary automated tool, Dell EMC can perform the application profiling needed to identify the applications for your converged infrastructure. How do we begin? We start with the business classification where we ensure that applications are mapped to business activities in the value chain. We then leverage our rules engine to perform an application disposition where we identify the applications suited for modernization, migration, retiring or even simply retention. We then determine cloud sustainability and even whether a public or private cloud is the best model; we perform a cloud native assessment using non-intrusive data collection process to measure readiness for cloud native modernization. This is followed by a financial analysis to develop a comprehensive TCO understanding. Then application dependency analysis is completed, leveraging data from a variety of collectors to understand application to application dependencies to reduce rick associated with and moves or migrations by ensuring nothing gets broken along the way. Finally, a business case is generated where we provide the road map of which applications are best suited for converged infrastructure or other targets.
Time
In a matter of weeks, using a quarter of the resources others would need, you can unlock the business value of your converged infrastructure by optimizing your applications to maximize your return on investment and effectively grow your business.
