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Discovery and Assessment

The VAST Discovery and Assessment service analyzes customers' existing computing infrastructure to determine what workloads can be migrated to the cloud and where they should be migrated. The service provides a comprehensive inventory analysis, application and network mapping, cloud-readiness scoring, and financial analysis reports. This assessment lays the groundwork for customers to plan an efficient cloud migration strategy that maximizes their infrastructure while reducing costs and risks.

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Discovery and Assessment

The VAST Discovery and Assessment service analyzes customers' existing computing infrastructure to determine what workloads can be migrated to the cloud and where they should be migrated. The service provides a comprehensive inventory analysis, application and network mapping, cloud-readiness scoring, and financial analysis reports. This assessment lays the groundwork for customers to plan an efficient cloud migration strategy that maximizes their infrastructure while reducing costs and risks.

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Discovery and Assessment

The What, Where and Why of Cloud Migrations

Overview
Key Benefits:
VAST Discovery and Assessment Service delivers the analysis and
planning required to create a solid foundation for enterprise cloud • Deep visibility into inventory
adoption or expansion. This service is a critical step for customers • Workload and App analytics
planning to integrate public or hybrid-cloud solutions into their
computing infrastructure. • Low-intrusion, secure data collection
• Qualitative and quantitative analysis
Deciding the what, where, when, and how of a transition to the
• Pre-processed reports & results
cloud is essential to optimizing cost and reducing risk. VAST
discovery and assessment service answers these questions with • Advanced Cloud-Fit analysis
quantitative and qualitative analysis combined with actionable results. • Network dependency mapping
• Fast results in less than two weeks
The VAST services range from simply analyzing the existing
computing inventory for cloud readiness, to roadmap generation, • Scalable to 1000’s of workloads
application mapping, vendor analysis, cloud-architecture, and
migration planning. The assessment lays the groundwork to help
customers maximize their current infrastructure efficiency, plan for
private, public, or hybrid cloud, create financial justification, get
true-cost pricing, and reduce migration risk. Comprehensive Coverage
The discovery and assessment uses
quantitative and qualitative analytics
to plan your cloud strategy.
These include:

Quantitative
• Machine Analytics
• Cloud-Fit Scoring
• Network & Asset Dependency
• Application Analytics
• Migration Risk Scoring

Qualitative
• Business Drivers
• Business Priorities
• Application Profiling
• Legacy asset lifecycles
• TCO & True Cost Analysis
• Human Capital Analysis

www.vastITservices.com 1319 Butterfield Rd. Suite 504 | Downers Grove, IL 60515 | 800.432.VAST
ASSESSMENT DELIVERABLES DESCRIPTION

Discover workloads in your environment, with inventory profiles for


Infrastructure and Application Discovery
Windows and Linux to get a complete picture of your infrastructure.
Hardware and application performance, network dependency and
Inventory Analysis a cloud-fit profiling of your target inventory.
Information such as average daily memory and CPU usage,
Performance and Metrics
maximum recorded IOPS, utilized storage is gathered.
Inventory will be compiled for applications that exist within the
Application Inventory environment, which may be scored for PaaS and SaaS opportunities.

Network Dependencies Network adapters and IP addresses associated with


scanned machines.

Cloud Readiness Identify assets that are better or less suited for migration to the cloud.

Delivery Modeling (PaaS, IaaS, SaaS) Determine level of readiness for an asset and it’s fit in public cloud.

Determine which workloads can be immediately moved to the


Remediation Scoring (IaaS) cloud. Determine which workloads will likely need some sort of
remediation prior to any migrations.

Software Reports VAST will report on all software installed within the environment,
which will assist with cloud readiness and PaaS scoring.

Financial Analysis Cloud TCO vs. private infrastructure, and cloud compute cost
comparisons with benchmark data center costs.

Choose VAST to Plan and Perform your Migration


The VAST Discovery and Assessment Service is the initial step in your cloud migration journey. It helps answer the
‘what to move, where to move it, and why move it in the first place’ questions. With those insights in hand, migration
planning can begin with emphasis on ‘what to do first and how to make it happen’. VAST’s Planning and Migration
services will help you answer those questions, and turn your migration plans into reality.

Once your workloads are in the cloud, VAST Cloud Management services can help you control costs, set policy and
governance, and optimize your cloud environment with best-practices that will improve ROI and mitigate risk.

For more information on VAST Migration and Cloud Management services, visit us at www.vastITservices.com
or call 800.432.VAST.

www.vastITservices.com 1319 Butterfield Rd. Suite 504 | Downers Grove, IL 60515 | 800.432.VAST

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