Control the Chaos of Cloud

How will moving to the Cloud impact your IT service delivery?

Cloud Computing is undeniably the hottest IT trend for 2012 and beyond, with massive investments now going into Cloud infrastructure. As Cloud grows easier and easier to deploy, managing IT Services in the Cloud also grows ever more complex.

When it comes to the Cloud, you need real-world answers to critical questions:

  • How can you ensure your IT services will perform as expected in the Cloud?
  • Will you have visibility and control over availability, scalability, and security in the Cloud?
  • Can you effectively analyze and optimize performance, capacity, and configuration of IT services in the Cloud?
  • How do you effectively provision and manage Cloud Computing as it scales?
  • How do you manage both private and public Clouds as a single hybrid ecosystem?

Windward’s strategic Cloud Management expertise helps you go from complexity to control—and realize the true business value you are expecting from the move to Cloud.

Plus Windward has expertise with an array of strategic Cloud partners—including Microsoft, CA, BMC, and IBM—to help you take Cloud Management to the next level.

Leveraging the Cloud to foster Service-Centric IT

In the Cloud, Service-Centric IT is more important than ever before. Real-world Service-Centric IT helps you design, build, and operate highly efficient IT services in the Cloud that are tightly aligned with your business objectives.

It’s imperative to have a Cloud Management strategy that fosters the transformation to Service-Centric IT—while still keeping your legacy systems and infrastructure under control.

Cloud Management Takes You from Chaos to Control

How can you capitalize on the advantages of Cloud while overcoming complexity and mitigating risk? With Windward’s proven Cloud Management expertise and solutions that help you analyze…optimize…and control your IT service delivery and management in the Cloud.

Windward’s strategic Cloud Management expertise enables you to:

    • Align IT management services in the Cloud with the strategic, corporate, and business vision; and translate business objectives into Cloud services
    • Make the Cloud easier to automate, instrument, manage, and use
    • Ensure the Cloud Computing infrastructure is reliable, scalable, and available–while adapting rapidly to evolving business or mission needs
    • Measure and maintain high levels of service to end-users while managing operational and capital expenses
    • Deliver complete visibility into and control over the end-to-end Cloud services lifecycle

As a leader in Cloud Management and a trusted advisor to our clients, we continually address Cloud Management requirements with straightforward guidance, deep operational and process knowledge, and unbiased, product-agnostic approaches to IT operational excellence.

Cloud Control by the Experts at Windward IT

There’s much more to Cloud Management than simply provisioning Cloud infrastructure and monitoring use of servers and storage. To properly manage resources and IT services in the Cloud, executives must implement a Cloud Management strategy that spans culture, organization, behavior, and technology.

      • Culture—In the move to cloud computing, a culture shift is often the greatest hurdle facing IT organizations. It is imperative that the entire IT organization adopts a service mindset vs. a technology mindset—with IT acting as a proactive service partner to business.
      • Organization–The new paradigm of Cloud Computing demands a deep understanding of business needs coupled with multi-domain expertise that allows you to design, build, and operate highly efficient IT infrastructures—both Cloud and legacy–that are tightly aligned with business priorities.
      • Behavior—Existing business processes and behaviors won’t change just because IT infrastructures do. Implementing new Cloud infrastructures demands a thorough evaluation of the impact on people and relevant business processes via a complete lifecycle management approach.
      • Technology–Deploying a Cloud Computing infrastructure is not enough; you need the right Service-Centric IT strategy to ensure alignment of IT decisions with business priorities—all supported by a flexible, scalable Cloud infrastructure. This Cloud Computing infrastructure must seamlessly integrate within the existing IT environment and business processes, as well as leverage rigorous automation to drive value into the organization.

Windward is a strong strategic partner to IT leaders and visionaries who are driving their organizations into the Cloud and transforming into service-centric IT organizations. Windward’s Cloud Management experts help you address all aspects of Cloud Control—from organization to behavior to technology—with world-class experience and best practices to deploy, manage and streamline operations in a Cloud environment.