Cloud Architecture Review
Remediate and optimize your cloud with a prioritized roadmap
To transform and stay competitive, organizations will need an
IT environment that allows them to pivot quickly. To keep up withdemand from stakeholders, both inside and out, many IT teams
have adopted a cloud-first strategy. Nonetheless, common
barriers like gaps in cloud-native skills, security, lack of operational
readiness and difficulty managing costs get in the way of realizing
the full potential of the cloud.

Cloud security concernson the rise:

64%
of respondents
named data loss/leakage as theirbiggest cloudsecurity concern 1

Once in the cloud, IT leaders continue to face the following challenges:
Adapting to published standards
Even with detailed documentation from cloud providers, many IT teams find the complexity makes it harder
to realize expected returns.

Ensuring up-time and availability
When application dependencies aren’t clear, resolving problems gets complicated, but leaving them unresolved
is not an option.

Uncontrolled costs
Many IT teams aren’t quite sure how to optimize cloud workloads to control costs on an ongoing basis.

Security threats
IT leaders wonder whether they are applying security best practices consistently and the environment
is set up to protect against threats.

Resource contraints
The promise of agility in the cloud remains out of reach as releasing new applications and features
takes too long and still requires manual intervention.

Performance efficiency
Limited scalability, performance bottlenecks, running out of capacity and addressing multi-regional/
global latency requirements all continue to pose challenges in the cloud.

Optimize your cloud footprint by applying a prioritized remediation roadmap. The Cloud Architecture Review is designed
to evaluate cloud environments against best practices, prioritizing improvement opportunities based on business impactand value. With Cloud Architecture Review, you get:Prioritized insight based on operational andarchitectural best practices resulting in recommendations
to improve cloud operations

Strategic and tactical guidance on aremediation roadmap to maximize impact
and address common issues

Structured status checks to support ongoing improvement
Softchoice professional services are available to assist in the implementation of the identified remediations in your roadmap.
Source: 1 Statista.com, Cloud Security Study 2020-2021

The Cloud Architecture Review identifies opportunities for improvement across security, reliability, performance, cost efficiency andoperational excellence for public cloud workloads as a holistic initiative. Through a guided experience, we help you understand andprioritize potential cloud improvements and chart a remediation roadmap and cloud architecture baseline score. We then conduct
status updates on the cloud architecture score to mark progress against recommendations, resulting in continuous improvement toyour public cloud stance.

What is it?
Baseline

Automated scan of cloud environment
Readout of insights provided by tooling
Analysis by cloud subject matter experts

What you gain
Baseline current cloud operations andarchitecture against published bestpractices
Prioritized insight based on an operational
and architectural best practice resulting
in recommendations on improving cloud
operations
Articulate areas of highest concern
for the organization

Prioritize

Delivery of recommendations for
improving the cloud environment
Discussion of validity and prioritizationof recommendations
Offer of Softchoice services to act
on recommendations

Progresscheck-In

Abbreviated re-scan of cloud environment
Analysis of changes from baseline
Discussion of progress on recommendations

Set tactical and strategic direction tomaximize existing cloud investments andimprove stability of the environment
Establish an immediate plan for remediation
while understanding interdependencies
within the environment

Reset baseline cloud architecture “score”
and evaluate progress against remediation
roadmap
Get expert advice on barriers that havebeen experienced and continue to improvearchitecture posture

2,000+ multicloud customers

Over 3,000 cloud planning reports created$1B+ in cloud spend under management100s of architects and engineers withmulticloud expertise

Over 5,000 assessments completed to-date

Contact your Softchoice
Account Manager for
more details.

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