Cloud Consulting Services: Turn Complexity into Competitiveness

The cloud has become the backbone for the success of modern-day businesses. However, to truly realize the full potential of the cloud, simply transferring workloads from one environment to another is insufficient. Organizations are faced with the increasing pressures to innovate quickly, contain costs, enhance security, and develop resilience in the ever-changing and uncertain business landscape. Thus, the challenge for many organizations is not whether to adopt cloud technology, but how to adopt it in a way that is intentional. 

IEMA Cloud helps businesses navigate the unknown complexities of cloud adoption with confidence through our cloud consulting services. Our services help to connect your business objectives and technology execution so that your organization will receive measurable value on every dollar spent on cloud technology. 

As an AWS Partner, our extensive technical knowledge combined with our business acumen provides companies with the ability to modernize their IT infrastructure, optimize their business operations, and create cloud environments that are secure, scalable, and future-ready. 

Traditional Cloud Adoption Challenges

Traditional cloud adoption frequently presents organizations with initial expectations of rapid success, but as they go through the process of adopting cloud technology, they often encounter unexpected challenges. The common challenges are associated with identifying costs, determining security obligations, and identifying applications/ system architectural decisions. Ultimately, due to a lack of a cohesive strategy for the overall implementation of cloud technologies, organizations may find themselves managing multiple disparate systems, using more resources than necessary and inefficiently executing their business processes; consequently realizing little to no value for their overall investment in the cloud. 

The fact is that cloud transformation is a business transformation, not just a technology initiative. For your cloud transformation to be successful, you need a clear strategy, appropriate architecture, strong governance structure, and a partner that understands how technology decisions impact business results. 

This is where IEMA Cloud adds value. 

Cloud Migration with No Disruption

Migrating to the cloud is one of the largest technological actions that an organization makes. There are many benefits to migrating, but careful planning and execution are also required to effectively migrate to the cloud. Poorly executed cloud migrations can lead to downtime, performance problems, security vulnerabilities and unexpected expenses. 

At IEMA Cloud, we look at cloud migration as a strategic transformation initiative rather than just a technical project. We start with an understanding of your existing infrastructure, applications and dependencies and then create a migration roadmap that minimizes risk while maximizing future value. 

We do not just migrate your workloads to AWS; we also help you modernize your environment, improve performance, increase availability and build a strong foundation for future growth. Each migration engagement is primarily planned, tested, and verified so that your organization experiences a smooth transition with little disruption to its daily operations. 

Cloud Architecture Design for Future Growth

The architecture of a cloud-based environment is vital to the ability of any organization to scale, innovate and react to changing business demands. A properly constructed cloud-based architecture can create opportunities for organizational growth, while a poorly constructed cloud-based architecture frequently acts as a barrier to achieving growth. 

IEMA Cloud provides cloud architecture consulting services focused on the development of environments that are resilient, efficient and aligned with organizational long-term objectives. We do not take a generic template approach but develop unique solutions for each organization based on the individual needs of that organization. 

Whether an organization requires a hybrid cloud model, a multi-region deployment strategy, or a cloud-native architecture developed for future growth, our cloud architecture consultants create solutions that achieve an equilibrium between the four main components of performance, reliability, security and cost. Consequently, the cloud-based architecture we develop will support the organizations’ current requirements and create future opportunities. 

Security & Compliance Strategic Initiatives

The rapid expansion of an organization’s cloud footprint makes security an absolute necessity. Although modern cloud environments are highly flexible, they also present organizations with new risks that must be mitigated. 

IEMA Cloud recognizes that security must be embedded throughout the cloud lifecycle; security is not an afterthought. Therefore, we include security measures in architecture design, migration planning and operational processes. 

We work in conjunction with clients to assist them in developing their Identity Management (IDM) capabilities, gaining greater visibility across their cloud-based resources, establishing a governance framework that supports compliance with applicable regulatory obligations and industry best practices, and implementing the necessary security controls to facilitate regulatory compliance and support best practice security measures. With these measures, organizations can build trust with their customers while reducing risk associated with their operations and adopting new innovative products/ services without compromising security.

AI-Powered Cost Optimization That Goes Beyond Cost-Cutting

Within the last few years, many organizations have become frustrated with their ability to see where their cloud-related expenditures occur. This frustration is primarily attributed to the amount of flexibility provided by cloud-based platforms, which, in return, provides the opportunity for organizational inefficiencies due to a lack of continuous monitoring and optimization of organizational resources. 

At IEMA Cloud, we use Artificial Intelligence (A.I) based insights and advanced-level analytics to help our clients gain some level of control over their cloud-related costs. Our methodology is focused on much more than just reducing the amount of cloud-related expenditures; our approach is designed to not only improve cost efficiencies, but also to identify and address opportunities for cost optimization, as well as ensure the alignment of allocated resources to the successful execution of the organization’s business priorities. 

Our analysis considers not only how the cloud-based environments are being used, but also the pattern(s) of how workload(s) behave, along with how infrastructure components function; this analysis supports our ability to assist clients with:

• Eliminating waste within the cloud

• Improving the maximum utilization of all allocated resources

• Making well-informed decisions regarding their future investments. 

The end result of our direct assistance to organizations with respect to easing their ability to utilize and manage their cloud-based environment, while supporting/enhancement of their overall innovative potential and maintaining financial accountability for their cloud-based operations. 

Managed Cloud Services That Enable Focus

When organizations utilize the cloud to conduct their business, it is critical that they continuously monitor, maintain, and optimize their cloud operations. For many organizations, doing so is often costly and inefficient due to resource constraints placed upon them by the organization’s need to focus on all other areas of operations. 

Our managed cloud services make it easy for businesses to continue focusing on growth while we handle the complexities of the cloud. Whether you are looking for help optimizing infrastructure or improving security, we are ready to be an extension of your business. 

Our proactive approach ensures that cloud environments are secure, efficient, and aligned with your ever-changing business requirements. We take steps to prevent problems before they happen, which reduces operational risk and allows us to continuously identify opportunities for improvement. 

Preparing for the Unexpected: Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity

Today, business resilience is an absolute must in the digital economy. Disruptions can occur at any time, whether due to cyberattacks, infrastructure failures or other unforesen external events. Organizations need to be able to quickly recover from disruptions to critical systems and data. 

IEMA Cloud helps organizations develop disaster recovery and business continuity plans that protect their operations and minimize downtime. Our consultants design cloud infrastructure with the resilience necessary to ensure service delivery will continue even during times of unanticipated disruption. 

To help organizations improve their ability to quickly recover and continue serving their customers, we combine backup strategies, recovery planning, automation and testing. 

What You Will Get?

Knowledge transfer is one of the most common challenges of cloud consulting. After finishing an engagement, organizations have found that they do not have adequate documentation or visibility into their cloud environments. 

At IEMA Cloud, our focus on empowering our clients means all of our engagements are designed to enable our clients to be stronger and more independent after the engagement than when they started. The documentation we produce, along with operating rituals, helps provide the visibility needed to allow our clients to make decisions with confidence about their environment. 

Included in the deliverables for this engagement will be a comprehensive architecture map that describes your cloud environment and all its associated dependencies. In addition, it will include a detailed migration and rollback plan that describes each step along the way during the migration and will help reduce the risk of a failed implementation. The dashboards we provide for cloud costs and security will also provide ongoing visibility into operational performance, cloud expenditures, and your security position. We also produce run books and other handover documents that give your staff the confidence to manage and maintain cloud operations long after the engagement is complete. 

Why Choose Us?

The expertise of technology alone does not provide organizations with the ability to achieve a successful outcome with cloud investments; organizations need to identify a partner that has the ability to navigate technical complexity and understand the business imperatives at play. 

Because IEMA Cloud is an AWS Partner, we leverage our experience, best practices, and proven methods to provide organizations with the ability to achieve real results. We specialize in collaborating and providing transparency while helping organizations create long-term value versus short-term solutions. 

IEMA Cloud provides a cloud that matches your stage. Start with a focused assessment or bring us in as your ongoing cloud operating partner. Our recommendations are based on business goals; all of our solutions are developed with sustainability in mind; and all of our collaborations provide you with measurable results.