Private Cloud Solutions
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“The Cloud infrastructure is operated solely for an organization. It may be managed by the organization or a third party and may exist on premise or off premise.”
The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing v15
Cloud services can offer scalability, flexibility, improved performance and
cost savings. Many organzations are considering a private cloud model
as part of their infrastructure to take advantage of these benefits.
Planet , with over 14 years of cloud solution experience, has created several short-week engagements to help guide you to a Private Cloud deployment.
- Private Cloud Workshop
- Private Cloud Readiness
- Private Cloud Discovery
- Private Cloud Deployment Quick Start
The Private Cloud Workshop provides customers with an overview of Cloud Services and technologies along with business and technical guidance to ensure that the adoption and implementation of Private Cloud service solutions is correctly understood and positioned as a project within their organization.
Workshop content: 1-2 days
- Standardized definitions of Cloud and Cloud Services
- Technology and architecture overview and reference examples
- Demonstration of Hyper-V Cloud Stack
- Security considerations
- Operational impacts and guidance
- Service levels and expectation
- Open format with high levels of interaction and Q&A
The Private Cloud Readiness program provides customers with the business and technical guidance and assistance to ensure that their adoption and implementation of Private Cloud service solutions is as smooth as possible.
Program content:
Business workshop 1-2 days
- Provide standardized definitions
- Identify core business requirements
- Undertake high-level analysis of risk, benefits and impact
Technical Proof of Concept 3 days
- Tailored Proof of Concept lab build to match requirements
- Best practice guidance for deployment
- Integration discussions
- Technology and training ‘Next steps’
The Private Cloud Discovery engagement is an intensive set of requirements and information gathering which delivers to the customer a set of recommendations for the types of infrastructure design and architectures which should be considered along with a high-level bill of materials and an outline implementation plan.
These deliverables enable the customer to proceed with confidence either as a self implemented solution or with a further engagement for implementation services.
Discovery coverage:
- Gathering of business requirements from proposed solution
- Technology and architecture analysis
- Integration requirements analysis
- Security and compliance requirements
- Operational impacts and guidance
Requirements and analysis is undertaken through meetings, conversation and hands-on systems discovery and the results and recommendations are documented and presented in a final meeting
The Private Cloud Deployment Quick Start provides customers with business and technical guidance and assistance to ensure that their adoption and implementation of Private Cloud service solutions is as smooth as possible. PLUS a pre-production Hyper-V Cloud environment build which can be taken into production and scaled out and up easily and effectively to match business needs.
Program content:
Overview workshop 1-2 days
- Provide standardized definitions
- Overview of adoption and implementation
- Identification of core business requirements
- Operational impacts and guidance
- Technology solutions and benefits of adoption
Pre-production environment build 3-8 days
- Tailored Hyper-V Cloud build on production hardware
- Scale-out guidance and options
- Best practice guidance
- Integration discussions
Private Cloud Workshops
Planet has created four, in-depth, on-premise workshops designed to provide guidance to organizations who are considering either providing or consuming cloud services.
Cloud Services Assessment
Find out more about Planet's Fixed-fee Cloud Services Assessment – your first step in creating a cloud strategy for your IT infrastructure.
Download our brochure to find out more.
GovCloud... Just for Government Agencies
Planet Technologies is dedicated to helping our government's agencies further their missions through careful adoption of new technologies. Now, we've created an entire website to help educate federal, state and local organizations about options in the cloud.
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