Addressing cloud caution with Atos CloudCatalyst
For many organizations, cloud unlocks transformative value. But not every cloud deployment is meeting expectations. Learn about the various reasons for “cloud caution” and how Atos CloudCatalyst can help your organization tackle them.
But not every cloud deployment is meeting expectations. Some organizations aren’t seeing the performance, the agility, or the savings they anticipated. Some workforces struggle to adapt to the cloud environment, and data breaches still make headlines.
Given these experiences, there are valid reasons for “cloud caution” to be taken by organizations, and they make up the following elements:
- IT license issues:
how much will it cost to exit existing licenses? - Stranded costs and exit penalties:
Will my current provider waive any exit fees or stranded costs? - Contract flexibility:
Will scalability really be easy and affordable? - Vendor lock-in:
Fear of getting locked-into a vendor could limit flexibility and increase long-term costs. In a regulated environment, I am required to provide evidence of flexibility. - Migration challenges:
Will productivity and customer service be at risk? Will your applications work the same way? There is also the risk of spending too much on a migration, which delays value realization and eats up the CapEx quickly. - Performance concerns:
Will you be working witholder-generation processors? Will your latency suffer? - Data security:
How robust will your virtual infrastructure be? - Data issues:
Could your data multiply out of control? - Cultural challenges:
Will your IT people embrace working on the cloud? Will your customer service people embrace the innovation it offers? - Emissions issues:
Could energy-intensive data centers impact your net zero plans?
Introducing Atos CloudCatalyst
It’s easy to say that diligent planning will solve everything. But until you’ve been involved in a number of cloud migrations, it’s not easy to predict all the stumbling blocks.
Atos has helped a wide range of large organizations migrate successfully to cloud. Leveraging that wealth of experience, we have launched CloudCatalyst, a strategic collaboration with leading cloud service provider Amazon Web Services (AWS), to ensure more customers enjoy the benefits of a seamless onboarding process and are able to utilize cloud’s full value.
Different infrastructures, different journeys
From straightforward to sprawling, we have seen every kind of organizational structure and IT infrastructure. That’s why we start by working to understand not only your IT infrastructure, application portfolio and dependencies, but also your wider business strategy and ambitions. Then we work with you to plan the optimum cloud-based solution and contract, with the right amount of scalability and flexibility for your needs. Our bespoke Landing Zone solution enables us to migrate your applications safely and seamlessly – minimizing disruption. The result: no surprises, no disappointment.
Here’s what you can expect:
- Crafting your optimum solution
As part of our managed service, our experts – who are well-versed in AWS solutions and deeply understand your business – work with your team. They ensure you receive the optimal mix of cost efficiency, expertise and innovation that suits your business needs. This approach enables you to benefit immediately from the transformational advantages of cloud. - Early exit of existing licenses
In most cases, we can help you mitigate fees for breaking existing Enterprise License Agreements (ELA) for software and operating system contracts, and help you transfer existing licenses into cloud with BYOL (Bring Your Own License) offerings. - Removing the barriers to migration
Atos and AWS’s combined expertise in large-scale cloud migrations minimizes cost and disruption, with a highly industrialized migration methodology, solution accelerators, and a “lift and optimize” approach that ensures that minimal modifications are required to existing applications. By helping to eradicate tech debt and enabling upgrades from end-of-service software, CloudCatalyst makes migration possible in a much faster time frame and brings more business value to your initiative. - Powered-up performance
Adopting new data technologies like AI requires faster – and more energy-efficient – processors, and AWS has been innovating their own cloud-optimized processors, AWS Graviton Processors, since 2018.
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AWS’s third-generation processor, the AWS Graviton3, delivers an incremental 25% better compute performance, 3x better ML performance, and 60% better energy efficiency.
And with over 125 data centers around the world, we can help you reduce latency – and maintain data residency compliance – by moving workloads closer to users storage flexibility and IOPS are key as well, with AWS offering options such as S3, EBS IO optimized, and FSx.
Creating a cloud-empowered culture
Atos’s ongoing managed service provides your people with the support they need to become cloud natives, improving productivity and job satisfaction, and leveraging the best of the AWS offering. By automating a variety of basic office tasks, workers will gain time to learn and master more and more cloud-enabled innovations relevant to your business and your customers.
Frictionless, zero-downtime technical updates
As products and portfolios evolve, technical issues are monitored pro-actively by your Atos DevOps support team, with ongoing configuration tweaks and upgrades performed in real time.
Staying in control of your data
Migrating to the cloud typically desiloes and deduplicates data. However, it’s easy to fall victim to “data rebound”, where using different cloud services results in the duplication or uncontrolled data versioning, while inefficient data processing can burn up your resources budget.
To prevent this, we help you institute methodologies that ensure you only capture, create and store data of actual value, and process it where it’s most efficient: cloud, device, or the edge. And with your data efficiently stored and managed in the Cloud you can better leverage and exploit all the data available to you – providing new commercial advantages.
Ensuring data compliance and security
The ballooning cybersecurity industry is proof of the difficulty of securing a non-prem infrastructure against vulnerabilities introduced either by imperfect code or human error. Add that to today's extremely complex data compliance environment, and the question is: do you have the internal resources to manage these issues to the standard your customers and partners demand?
With Atos and AWS, data compliance and security are foundational to your cloud migration and daily operations. CloudCatalyst’s automated, code-based infrastructure implementation significantly reduces the risk of introducing new vulnerabilities, while AWS’s compliance protocols and comprehensive suite of security tools maintain ongoing compliance and security.
Avoiding vendor lock-in
Concerns about vendor lock-in – both contractual and technological – often lead to companies adopting complex multicloud strategies. CloudCatalyst will help you avoid long-term contracts while taking advantage of AWS’s commitment to open-source technologies like on-demand SQL and NoSQL databases, as well as Linux operating systems.
Cost savings
Instead of simply replicating your existing infrastructure and applications, we will help you rightsize your infrastructure footprint with efficient data management strategies and on-demand applications that improve your business agility and data security while delivering a 30-40% improvement in your total cost of ownership.
Contact us to find out more about a frictionless, de-risked journey to the transformative potential of cloud.
But not every cloud deployment is meeting expectations. Some organizations aren’t seeing the performance, the agility, or the savings they anticipated. Some workforces struggle to adapt to the cloud environment, and data breaches still make headlines.
Given these experiences, there are valid reasons for “cloud caution” to be taken by organizations, and they make up the following elements:
- IT license issues:
how much will it cost to exit existing licenses? - Stranded costs and exit penalties:
Will my current provider waive any exit fees or stranded costs? - Contract flexibility:
Will scalability really be easy and affordable? - Vendor lock-in:
Fear of getting locked-into a vendor could limit flexibility and increase long-term costs. In a regulated environment, I am required to provide evidence of flexibility. - Migration challenges:
Will productivity and customer service be at risk? Will your applications work the same way? There is also the risk of spending too much on a migration, which delays value realization and eats up the CapEx quickly. - Performance concerns:
Will you be working witholder-generation processors? Will your latency suffer? - Data security:
How robust will your virtual infrastructure be? - Data issues:
Could your data multiply out of control? - Cultural challenges:
Will your IT people embrace working on the cloud? Will your customer service people embrace the innovation it offers? - Emissions issues:
Could energy-intensive data centers impact your net zero plans?
Introducing Atos CloudCatalyst
It’s easy to say that diligent planning will solve everything. But until you’ve been involved in a number of cloud migrations, it’s not easy to predict all the stumbling blocks.
Atos has helped a wide range of large organizations migrate successfully to cloud. Leveraging that wealth of experience, we have launched CloudCatalyst, a strategic collaboration with leading cloud service provider Amazon Web Services (AWS), to ensure more customers enjoy the benefits of a seamless onboarding process and are able to utilize cloud’s full value.
Different infrastructures, different journeys
From straightforward to sprawling, we have seen every kind of organizational structure and IT infrastructure. That’s why we start by working to understand not only your IT infrastructure, application portfolio and dependencies, but also your wider business strategy and ambitions. Then we work with you to plan the optimum cloud-based solution and contract, with the right amount of scalability and flexibility for your needs. Our bespoke Landing Zone solution enables us to migrate your applications safely and seamlessly – minimizing disruption. The result: no surprises, no disappointment.
Here’s what you can expect:
- Crafting your optimum solution
As part of our managed service, our experts – who are well-versed in AWS solutions and deeply understand your business – work with your team. They ensure you receive the optimal mix of cost efficiency, expertise and innovation that suits your business needs. This approach enables you to benefit immediately from the transformational advantages of cloud. - Early exit of existing licenses
In most cases, we can help you mitigate fees for breaking existing Enterprise License Agreements (ELA) for software and operating system contracts, and help you transfer existing licenses into cloud with BYOL (Bring Your Own License) offerings. - Removing the barriers to migration
Atos and AWS’s combined expertise in large-scale cloud migrations minimizes cost and disruption, with a highly industrialized migration methodology, solution accelerators, and a “lift and optimize” approach that ensures that minimal modifications are required to existing applications. By helping to eradicate tech debt and enabling upgrades from end-of-service software, CloudCatalyst makes migration possible in a much faster time frame and brings more business value to your initiative. - Powered-up performance
Adopting new data technologies like AI requires faster – and more energy-efficient – processors, and AWS has been innovating their own cloud-optimized processors, AWS Graviton Processors, since 2018.
AWS’s third-generation processor, the AWS Graviton3, delivers an incremental 25% better compute performance, 3x better ML performance, and 60% better energy efficiency.
And with over 125 data centers around the world, we can help you reduce latency – and maintain data residency compliance – by moving workloads closer to users storage flexibility and IOPS are key as well, with AWS offering options such as S3, EBS IO optimized, and FSx.
Creating a cloud-empowered culture
Atos’s ongoing managed service provides your people with the support they need to become cloud natives, improving productivity and job satisfaction, and leveraging the best of the AWS offering. By automating a variety of basic office tasks, workers will gain time to learn and master more and more cloud-enabled innovations relevant to your business and your customers.
Frictionless, zero-downtime technical updates
As products and portfolios evolve, technical issues are monitored pro-actively by your Atos DevOps support team, with ongoing configuration tweaks and upgrades performed in real time.
Staying in control of your data
Migrating to the cloud typically desiloes and deduplicates data. However, it’s easy to fall victim to “data rebound”, where using different cloud services results in the duplication or uncontrolled data versioning, while inefficient data processing can burn up your resources budget.
To prevent this, we help you institute methodologies that ensure you only capture, create and store data of actual value, and process it where it’s most efficient: cloud, device, or the edge. And with your data efficiently stored and managed in the Cloud you can better leverage and exploit all the data available to you – providing new commercial advantages.
Ensuring data compliance and security
The ballooning cybersecurity industry is proof of the difficulty of securing a non-prem infrastructure against vulnerabilities introduced either by imperfect code or human error. Add that to today's extremely complex data compliance environment, and the question is: do you have the internal resources to manage these issues to the standard your customers and partners demand?
With Atos and AWS, data compliance and security are foundational to your cloud migration and daily operations. CloudCatalyst’s automated, code-based infrastructure implementation significantly reduces the risk of introducing new vulnerabilities, while AWS’s compliance protocols and comprehensive suite of security tools maintain ongoing compliance and security.
Avoiding vendor lock-in
Concerns about vendor lock-in – both contractual and technological – often lead to companies adopting complex multicloud strategies. CloudCatalyst will help you avoid long-term contracts while taking advantage of AWS’s commitment to open-source technologies like on-demand SQL and NoSQL databases, as well as Linux operating systems.
Cost savings
Instead of simply replicating your existing infrastructure and applications, we will help you rightsize your infrastructure footprint with efficient data management strategies and on-demand applications that improve your business agility and data security while delivering a 30-40% improvement in your total cost of ownership.
Contact us to find out more about a frictionless, de-risked journey to the transformative potential of cloud.
But not every cloud deployment is meeting expectations. Some organizations aren’t seeing the performance, the agility, or the savings they anticipated. Some workforces struggle to adapt to the cloud environment, and data breaches still make headlines.
Given these experiences, there are valid reasons for “cloud caution” to be taken by organizations, and they make up the following elements:
- IT license issues:
how much will it cost to exit existing licenses? - Stranded costs and exit penalties:
Will my current provider waive any exit fees or stranded costs? - Contract flexibility:
Will scalability really be easy and affordable? - Vendor lock-in:
Fear of getting locked-into a vendor could limit flexibility and increase long-term costs. In a regulated environment, I am required to provide evidence of flexibility. - Migration challenges:
Will productivity and customer service be at risk? Will your applications work the same way? There is also the risk of spending too much on a migration, which delays value realization and eats up the CapEx quickly. - Performance concerns:
Will you be working witholder-generation processors? Will your latency suffer? - Data security:
How robust will your virtual infrastructure be? - Data issues:
Could your data multiply out of control? - Cultural challenges:
Will your IT people embrace working on the cloud? Will your customer service people embrace the innovation it offers? - Emissions issues:
Could energy-intensive data centers impact your net zero plans?
Introducing Atos CloudCatalyst
It’s easy to say that diligent planning will solve everything. But until you’ve been involved in a number of cloud migrations, it’s not easy to predict all the stumbling blocks.
Atos has helped a wide range of large organizations migrate successfully to cloud. Leveraging that wealth of experience, we have launched CloudCatalyst, a strategic collaboration with leading cloud service provider Amazon Web Services (AWS), to ensure more customers enjoy the benefits of a seamless onboarding process and are able to utilize cloud’s full value.
Different infrastructures, different journeys
From straightforward to sprawling, we have seen every kind of organizational structure and IT infrastructure. That’s why we start by working to understand not only your IT infrastructure, application portfolio and dependencies, but also your wider business strategy and ambitions. Then we work with you to plan the optimum cloud-based solution and contract, with the right amount of scalability and flexibility for your needs. Our bespoke Landing Zone solution enables us to migrate your applications safely and seamlessly – minimizing disruption. The result: no surprises, no disappointment.
Here’s what you can expect:
- Crafting your optimum solution
As part of our managed service, our experts – who are well-versed in AWS solutions and deeply understand your business – work with your team. They ensure you receive the optimal mix of cost efficiency, expertise and innovation that suits your business needs. This approach enables you to benefit immediately from the transformational advantages of cloud. - Early exit of existing licenses
In most cases, we can help you mitigate fees for breaking existing Enterprise License Agreements (ELA) for software and operating system contracts, and help you transfer existing licenses into cloud with BYOL (Bring Your Own License) offerings. - Removing the barriers to migration
Atos and AWS’s combined expertise in large-scale cloud migrations minimizes cost and disruption, with a highly industrialized migration methodology, solution accelerators, and a “lift and optimize” approach that ensures that minimal modifications are required to existing applications. By helping to eradicate tech debt and enabling upgrades from end-of-service software, CloudCatalyst makes migration possible in a much faster time frame and brings more business value to your initiative. - Powered-up performance
Adopting new data technologies like AI requires faster – and more energy-efficient – processors, and AWS has been innovating their own cloud-optimized processors, AWS Graviton Processors, since 2018.
AWS’s third-generation processor, the AWS Graviton3, delivers an incremental 25% better compute performance, 3x better ML performance, and 60% better energy efficiency.
And with over 125 data centers around the world, we can help you reduce latency – and maintain data residency compliance – by moving workloads closer to users storage flexibility and IOPS are key as well, with AWS offering options such as S3, EBS IO optimized, and FSx.
Creating a cloud-empowered culture
Atos’s ongoing managed service provides your people with the support they need to become cloud natives, improving productivity and job satisfaction, and leveraging the best of the AWS offering. By automating a variety of basic office tasks, workers will gain time to learn and master more and more cloud-enabled innovations relevant to your business and your customers.
Frictionless, zero-downtime technical updates
As products and portfolios evolve, technical issues are monitored pro-actively by your Atos DevOps support team, with ongoing configuration tweaks and upgrades performed in real time.
Staying in control of your data
Migrating to the cloud typically desiloes and deduplicates data. However, it’s easy to fall victim to “data rebound”, where using different cloud services results in the duplication or uncontrolled data versioning, while inefficient data processing can burn up your resources budget.
To prevent this, we help you institute methodologies that ensure you only capture, create and store data of actual value, and process it where it’s most efficient: cloud, device, or the edge. And with your data efficiently stored and managed in the Cloud you can better leverage and exploit all the data available to you – providing new commercial advantages.
Ensuring data compliance and security
The ballooning cybersecurity industry is proof of the difficulty of securing a non-prem infrastructure against vulnerabilities introduced either by imperfect code or human error. Add that to today's extremely complex data compliance environment, and the question is: do you have the internal resources to manage these issues to the standard your customers and partners demand?
With Atos and AWS, data compliance and security are foundational to your cloud migration and daily operations. CloudCatalyst’s automated, code-based infrastructure implementation significantly reduces the risk of introducing new vulnerabilities, while AWS’s compliance protocols and comprehensive suite of security tools maintain ongoing compliance and security.
Avoiding vendor lock-in
Concerns about vendor lock-in – both contractual and technological – often lead to companies adopting complex multicloud strategies. CloudCatalyst will help you avoid long-term contracts while taking advantage of AWS’s commitment to open-source technologies like on-demand SQL and NoSQL databases, as well as Linux operating systems.
Cost savings
Instead of simply replicating your existing infrastructure and applications, we will help you rightsize your infrastructure footprint with efficient data management strategies and on-demand applications that improve your business agility and data security while delivering a 30-40% improvement in your total cost of ownership.
Contact us to find out more about a frictionless, de-risked journey to the transformative potential of cloud.
But not every cloud deployment is meeting expectations. Some organizations aren’t seeing the performance, the agility, or the savings they anticipated. Some workforces struggle to adapt to the cloud environment, and data breaches still make headlines.
Given these experiences, there are valid reasons for “cloud caution” to be taken by organizations, and they make up the following elements:
- IT license issues:
how much will it cost to exit existing licenses? - Stranded costs and exit penalties:
Will my current provider waive any exit fees or stranded costs? - Contract flexibility:
Will scalability really be easy and affordable? - Vendor lock-in:
Fear of getting locked-into a vendor could limit flexibility and increase long-term costs. In a regulated environment, I am required to provide evidence of flexibility. - Migration challenges:
Will productivity and customer service be at risk? Will your applications work the same way? There is also the risk of spending too much on a migration, which delays value realization and eats up the CapEx quickly. - Performance concerns:
Will you be working witholder-generation processors? Will your latency suffer? - Data security:
How robust will your virtual infrastructure be? - Data issues:
Could your data multiply out of control? - Cultural challenges:
Will your IT people embrace working on the cloud? Will your customer service people embrace the innovation it offers? - Emissions issues:
Could energy-intensive data centers impact your net zero plans?
Introducing Atos CloudCatalyst
It’s easy to say that diligent planning will solve everything. But until you’ve been involved in a number of cloud migrations, it’s not easy to predict all the stumbling blocks.
Atos has helped a wide range of large organizations migrate successfully to cloud. Leveraging that wealth of experience, we have launched CloudCatalyst, a strategic collaboration with leading cloud service provider Amazon Web Services (AWS), to ensure more customers enjoy the benefits of a seamless onboarding process and are able to utilize cloud’s full value.
Different infrastructures, different journeys
From straightforward to sprawling, we have seen every kind of organizational structure and IT infrastructure. That’s why we start by working to understand not only your IT infrastructure, application portfolio and dependencies, but also your wider business strategy and ambitions. Then we work with you to plan the optimum cloud-based solution and contract, with the right amount of scalability and flexibility for your needs. Our bespoke Landing Zone solution enables us to migrate your applications safely and seamlessly – minimizing disruption. The result: no surprises, no disappointment.
Here’s what you can expect:
- Crafting your optimum solution
As part of our managed service, our experts – who are well-versed in AWS solutions and deeply understand your business – work with your team. They ensure you receive the optimal mix of cost efficiency, expertise and innovation that suits your business needs. This approach enables you to benefit immediately from the transformational advantages of cloud. - Early exit of existing licenses
In most cases, we can help you mitigate fees for breaking existing Enterprise License Agreements (ELA) for software and operating system contracts, and help you transfer existing licenses into cloud with BYOL (Bring Your Own License) offerings. - Removing the barriers to migration
Atos and AWS’s combined expertise in large-scale cloud migrations minimizes cost and disruption, with a highly industrialized migration methodology, solution accelerators, and a “lift and optimize” approach that ensures that minimal modifications are required to existing applications. By helping to eradicate tech debt and enabling upgrades from end-of-service software, CloudCatalyst makes migration possible in a much faster time frame and brings more business value to your initiative. - Powered-up performance
Adopting new data technologies like AI requires faster – and more energy-efficient – processors, and AWS has been innovating their own cloud-optimized processors, AWS Graviton Processors, since 2018.
AWS’s third-generation processor, the AWS Graviton3, delivers an incremental 25% better compute performance, 3x better ML performance, and 60% better energy efficiency.
And with over 125 data centers around the world, we can help you reduce latency – and maintain data residency compliance – by moving workloads closer to users storage flexibility and IOPS are key as well, with AWS offering options such as S3, EBS IO optimized, and FSx.
Creating a cloud-empowered culture
Atos’s ongoing managed service provides your people with the support they need to become cloud natives, improving productivity and job satisfaction, and leveraging the best of the AWS offering. By automating a variety of basic office tasks, workers will gain time to learn and master more and more cloud-enabled innovations relevant to your business and your customers.
Frictionless, zero-downtime technical updates
As products and portfolios evolve, technical issues are monitored pro-actively by your Atos DevOps support team, with ongoing configuration tweaks and upgrades performed in real time.
Staying in control of your data
Migrating to the cloud typically desiloes and deduplicates data. However, it’s easy to fall victim to “data rebound”, where using different cloud services results in the duplication or uncontrolled data versioning, while inefficient data processing can burn up your resources budget.
To prevent this, we help you institute methodologies that ensure you only capture, create and store data of actual value, and process it where it’s most efficient: cloud, device, or the edge. And with your data efficiently stored and managed in the Cloud you can better leverage and exploit all the data available to you – providing new commercial advantages.
Ensuring data compliance and security
The ballooning cybersecurity industry is proof of the difficulty of securing a non-prem infrastructure against vulnerabilities introduced either by imperfect code or human error. Add that to today's extremely complex data compliance environment, and the question is: do you have the internal resources to manage these issues to the standard your customers and partners demand?
With Atos and AWS, data compliance and security are foundational to your cloud migration and daily operations. CloudCatalyst’s automated, code-based infrastructure implementation significantly reduces the risk of introducing new vulnerabilities, while AWS’s compliance protocols and comprehensive suite of security tools maintain ongoing compliance and security.
Avoiding vendor lock-in
Concerns about vendor lock-in – both contractual and technological – often lead to companies adopting complex multicloud strategies. CloudCatalyst will help you avoid long-term contracts while taking advantage of AWS’s commitment to open-source technologies like on-demand SQL and NoSQL databases, as well as Linux operating systems.
Cost savings
Instead of simply replicating your existing infrastructure and applications, we will help you rightsize your infrastructure footprint with efficient data management strategies and on-demand applications that improve your business agility and data security while delivering a 30-40% improvement in your total cost of ownership.
Contact us to find out more about a frictionless, de-risked journey to the transformative potential of cloud.
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