HGS Digital

Cloud strategy

Aim for the sky and reach the cloud, faster

Cloud transforms your business and isn’t all or none

At HGS Digital, we understand that organizations need flexibility to run the right workload, in the right place, and at the right time. We understand that not all workloads, or teams, are ready for the cloud. Every cloud strategy is unique.

We leverage a platform- and vendor-agnostic approach and listen actively to understand the requirements for each workload and team.

From there, we work collaboratively to determine goals, use cases, and the best strategy for success. Common use cases include capacity expansion and flexibility, data center consolidation, security and compliance, and disaster recovery and backup, but we appreciate that you may have completely different reasons for cloud transformation.

Rely on our expertise to avail of the benefits of the cloud, faster.

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A clear strategy can address numerous business challenges

As our cloud experts engage in conversations with our enterprise clients, we hear about the challenges they are facing to understand, define, plan for, and deliver digital innovation. While we often find them in different stages of their digital journey, there are some pretty common themes.

Consistently, we hear clients struggling to find solutions that can be deployed quickly and easily, have the flexibility to scale, and make a real user impact. They can’t find or keep quality resources. They face challenges with storage, management, backup, and recovery. They are worried about security. They are trying to harness both structured and unstructured data. Plus, they are often grappling with directives to reduce spend.

Driving innovation while keeping total cost of ownership (TCO) low is not an easy directive. We can help.

Cloud supports innovation

Choose where you run each workload. On-premises, cloud, and multi-cloud workloads can work in unison.

Cloud offers speed to market

Increase productivity by offloading IT complexity. Scale up and down as needed and pay-as-you-go.

Cloud turns CapEx to OpEx

Transform your costs from CapEx to OpEx for predictable spends and get TCO savings on average of 40% or more.

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Cloud strategy for AI, IoT, and more

The advent of hybrid cloud models has resulted in a more complex cloud landscape. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to choose the right cloud environments. The right cloud strategy will help the efficient utilization of other technologies such as AI, mobility, big data, and IoT.

We help you plan, build, and manage in the most unpredictable environments. We help you cut the noise and optimize homegrown legacy applications. Our IaaS offerings let you react quickly to market changes, effectively manage your enterprise application workloads, and future-proof for consistent ROI.

Our full-service cloud service offerings start with:

Defining business objectives and desired outcomes
Outlining the cloud architecture and migration strategy
Prioritizing workloads
Building budgets and internal support
Providing cloud vendor selection assistance
Developing a cloud center of excellence

From there, our team can assist with Cloud Migration Services, inclusive of DevOps and cloud experts on demand. Once live, our Cloud Managed Services team can help you with the ongoing management of your cloud environment. Our Security Operations Center can help ensure the ongoing safety of your data and reputation. Vault your organization into the future with HGS Digital.

The time for cloud is now

According to Gartner, multi-cloud strategies will reduce vendor dependency for two-thirds of organizations through 2024.
Through 2022, Gartner also predicts that insufficient cloud IaaS skills will delay half of enterprise IT organizations’ migrations to the cloud by two years or more.
94% of enterprises already use a cloud service, and two-thirds already have a central cloud team or a cloud center of excellence.
30% of all IT budgets are allocated to cloud computing, and more than $1.3 trillion in IT spending will be affected by the shift to the cloud by 2022.

Pie chart shows cloud strategies will reduces vendor dependency for 2/3 of enterprises through 2024

Cloud with wall clock over it. Lack of in-house skills delay switch to cloud computing through 2022

Circular graph shows 94% of enterprises already use cloud services

FAQs

How should we start our move to cloud?

Start by establishing parameters for success. Define what workload(s) need migrating and identify key stakeholders across these workloads. From there, look for executive sponsorship (or another internal champion) and secure funding source(s) for the migration. Identify experts who can help refine your strategies and establish a center of excellence. Please see our blog for more information.

What is the best cloud service provider (CSP) platform to use?

The truth is that they all have their strengths and weaknesses but, as long as you stick to the top four, you should be fine. Which CSP you choose depends on your goals for your workload(s) and how you define success. Our team can work with you to define objectives and select the CSP that is right for you based on your specific needs. Please see our blog for more information.

We don’t have enough cloud expertise on our team. How can we successfully implement it?

HGS Digital has well over a decade of success operating and supporting clients in the cloud. Whether you need us to run your cloud migration initiative or just need to tap into our cloud expertise, we can apply the right resources and help bridge gaps. Our team can even help you build strategies and approaches to help grow your internal team’s cloud skills.

Will cloud solutions minimize the value of my IT team or make them obsolete?

While it’s a very common concern that cloud will replace or reduce the value of your IT team, in our experience, it’s actually quite the opposite. Cloud services free up highly skilled IT resources who would have otherwise been bogged down with the ordering, set up, management, and ongoing maintenance of on-prem hardware to now focus on more mission-critical business objectives that drive innovation and positively impact the customer experience.

Is my data really secure on the cloud?

Yes! In fact, Gartner predicts that “through 2020, public cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) workloads will suffer at least 60% fewer security incidents than those in traditional data centers.”

Transform your business with our end-to-end cloud services

Moving to cloud enables you to achieve faster time-to-market and free your resources to focus on other business goals. Cloud solutions reduce IT complexity, increase productivity, and provide the flexibility to scale up and down to meet the dynamic needs of your business.