Sevatec's Cloud Diagnostic Toolkit Facilitates the Transformation from Traditional IT to Cloud-Enabled Architectures

Cloud Computing offers a new and compelling transformational force to the IT community, leveraging a new technological model designed to create and sustain globally networked and integrated enterprises. Many varying definitions of Cloud Computing persist, but all share the same key tenet – a massively scalable and elastic IT-enabled infrastructure that can deliver capabilities as a service to users or systems over existing Internet technologies.

A cloud implementation is a complex endeavor that requires an incremental, step-by-step adoption model similar to any large-scale IT enterprise transformation.

The current movement to cloud-enabled architectures is motivated by the limitations of traditional IT models and the need for cost reductions, increased data sharing, mission resilience, and enhanced security. The process for migrating to cloud computing must be incremental, allowing traditional IT systems and cloud services coexistence while delivering the best capability model for the wide-range of mission-critical IT-related activities conducted enterprise-wide.

Sevatec's Cloud Methodology and Cloud Diagnostic Toolkit® are designed to help federal agencies more effectively and seamlessly transform their enterprise architectures to cloud computing.

Cloud Diagnostic Toolkit

The Cloud Diagnostic Toolkit (CDT) provides the necessary processes for government CIOs and IT managers to create, document, and visualize the artifacts needed to transition from a traditional IT to a cloud-enabled architecture successfully. The toolkit provides a roadmap, as well as the documentation that is required, to achieve buy-in from stakeholders and IT leadership.

Our CDT offers IT managers with a:

• Focus on capturing mission needs and translating them into implementable cloud requirements;
• Good understanding of cloud ideas by using visual products as the central communication device;
• Framework that can be integrated with software lifecycle methodologies to create artifacts and documentation linked to cloud concepts;
• Roadmap with analysis and artifacts to support acquisition analysis, cloud integration, and portfolio management;
• Traceable mechanism from mission needs to a cloud architecture design; and
• Holistic and more integrated view of Cloud Services (i.e., Apps.gov) as we transition toward a Cloud-Enabled Architecture

Our CDT tightly integrates with the Federal Cloud Computing Framework, identifying and prioritizing software as services (SaaS) and Infrastructure as services (IaaS) to make them part of the overall enterprise architecture. A cloud-enabled architecture designed using Sevatec's CDT provides a way to plan and execute a cloud transformation in the future. Our CDT integrates a top-down and bottom-up analysis of missions, cloud services, and program activities, providing an actionable roadmap based on thorough analysis.

When applied to an agency's enterprise architecture, Sevatec's diagnostic toolkit helps identify needed cloud services, categorize candidate applications suited to go to a cloud environment, and help deploy enterprise applications into the cloud more effectively.

The toolkit provides government CIOs and IT managers a clear roadmap to transforming a significant portion of their enterprise architecture to cloud computing effectively and realize immediate savings in computing resources, storage, and other IT services – which, for many CIOs, offers a compelling business case for analysis before making the leap to cloud computing. Sevatec is ready to support your agency in this transformation.

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