Cloud Migration Viability and Cost - PTS Data Center Solutions

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Will migrating to the cloud save you money? Gain insight in under 15 minutes.

Is Cloud the right thing for your enterprise?
How much would it cost to migrate?
And how does it compare to on-site?

Accurate answers to these questions make all the difference when it comes to deciding whether or not to migrate to the cloud. You can only find the answer by ensuring your VMs (Virtual Machines) are resourced correctly, prior to considering the move to a cloud. This “rightsizing” exercise ensures that each VM has adequate resources to do its job, and also ensures that no VM has been provisioned with more resources than it needs.

IT Administrators typically configure VMs conservatively, which means they end up with more resources than they actually need. Underprovisioned VMs are easy to find since they lack the resources they need to run properly, but overprovisioned VMs often go unnoticed. When moving to the cloud, IT Administrators use the overprovisioned VMs to size their cloud equivalents when migrating these VMs to the cloud. This can vastly overstate the OpEx costs of moving on-site workloads to the cloud. Such overstating heavily impacts the cost estimates for running applications in the cloud, compared to on-premises data centers, thus yielding an inaccurate and lower picture of potential cloud savings.

Key Benefits of Running a VM Assessment

Flows out continuous results, automatically updated in real time
Enables quick, data-driven decisions and eliminates guessing
Uses granular, current data from the user’s own data center
Reveals the verifiable costs of moving each VM
Produces instant rightsizing scenarios

Will Moving to the Cloud Save Money?

Here’s how: The software tool collects resource utilization data from each VM in the data center on a fine grained basis. Then, it analyzes those data across time, allowing you to discover the resources that each VM actually needs to perform its duties. For example, if an on-premises VM has been configured with 8 vCPUs, but never actually uses more than 2 vCPUs to run its applications, then you can rightsize that VM to a smaller instance when you move it to the Cloud, and save money rather than pay for resources you won’t be using. PTS can map each VM in the entire data center to its best-fitting public cloud instance, whether Azure, AWS or others, so you see the exact costs of running each VM in the cloud you choose to evaluate. Your best decision is easily apparent.

The answer is that running your applications in a high-performance cloud data center may save substantial funds, but that answer only becomes apparent when cloud cost estimates rely on accurate resourcing. Guesses don’t inspire confidence when it comes to estimating the possible cost savings. Only data-driven answers, along with accurate scenario-building capabilities can drive and support on-target decision-making. PTS has the tool you need to achieve that data-driven accuracy, using a precise, minute-by-minute comparison of the costs to you in the cloud versus on-premise costs.

Cloud Cost Using Each VM as Configured

Key Capabilities and Features

The rightsizing software tool calculates unbiased answers to the key question: “What will it cost to run my VMs in the Cloud?” The VM assessment software:

Achieves granular accuracy with usage data updated every 20 seconds, without rounding or rollups.
Keeps resource utilization information forever, easily available for comparison at a click.
Informs you of the amount of resources each VM needs for ideal, real-world function, using easily readable histogram-based scenarios to analyze workloads. You know costs instantly for on-target comparisons.
Offers more user options with multi-cloud applicability, thanks to its unbiased, vendor-neutral analysis capabilities.
Eliminates guesswork or estimates with its verifiable, data-based recommendations.
Deploys quickly and easily with SaaS delivery model, for continuous updating, scenario-building, automated discovery, quick slice-and-dice, and mapping of on-premise intelligence to the cloud.
Benefits all levels in the organization. CIOs and VPs of IT gain objective, data-driven answers to cost-savings questions, while IT admins gain work/effort/time efficiency.

PTS offers data center consulting services for enterprises large and small, including:

Data Center Planning Consulting (Premise vs. Colo vs. Cloud Strategy)
Colocation Site Selection (by Region & Needs)
Colocation Requirements & RFP Development
Colocation Provider Survey, Assessment, and Scoring
Colocation Site Design & Build-Out (Cages, Cabinets, Power Distribution, Monitoring, etc.)
Data Cabling Design & Construction
Relocation Planning & Execution
Colocation Site IT Managed Services and/or Facility Managed Services

What Customers Say About PTS

We are very happy we made the switch to PTS for all our IT management. The transition went smoothly, and the service we receive is outstanding.
– Rosa Schiro, Controller
IGEA Brain & Spine

Selecting PTS was one of the best decisions we’ve made. The PTS team has done a great job in managing our network, identifying and correcting any issues before they could impact our users, and provides us with a stable work environment for our users.
– Jim Neitzel, CIO
MHW Ltd.