Cloud Consulting Services

Putting You on a Path to Cloud Success

Regardless of where you are in your journey to cloud, there are challenges that can slow your migration, increase cost, or even derail your adoption. With expertise across key areas such as cloud assessments, foundational deployments, application modernization, migrations, and ongoing operation and management, ePlus can help ensure you meet your business goals and leverage cloud to its fullest potential.

Our service offerings cover the five most critical areas of cloud adoption: education, assessment, automation/orchestration, architect/design/deploy, and ongoing optimization and management.

Assessments

A clear understanding of your cloud compliance needs, estimated cloud costs, and application dependencies is crucial to planning and executing an efficient and timely migration to cloud. Our assessments help you gain the critical infrastructure, application, and cost information you need as foundation for your cloud journey.

Cloud Infrastructure and Application Assessments:

• Application Modernization Assessment
• Public Cloud Feasibility Assessment for AWS and Azure
• Public Cloud Migration Assessment for AWS and Azure
• Application Dependency Mapping (ADM)
• Consulting services to define cloud roadmap and application modernization strategy

Automation and Orchestration

As organizations continue to look toward multi-cloud architectures to gain advantages on where and when they move and scale workloads, portability is an absolute requirement. Containerization lends itself perfectly to this by allowing applications to be deployed across private and public clouds (GCP, AWS, Azure) in an automated and standardized fashion. Efforts to test, validate, and release have never been easier.

Our offerings include:

• Trainings: Docker/Kubernetes/Ansible Fundamentals
• Workshops: Automation/Container Explorations
• Customized Design/Build/Deployment Services

Architect/Design/Deploy

To be successful in deploying and adopting cloud services in a multi-cloud paradigm (whether hybrid, cloud DR, or a private/public cloud architecture spanning multiple cloud providers), it is imperative to have a properly-designed public cloud architecture as well as the ability to address security, connectivity, and management from your data center to the public cloud.

ePlus architect and design services provide a true multi-cloud architecture. Our team of highly-skilled architects and engineers can provide a scalable, compliant, and secure design—helping you build your multi-cloud infrastructure and automate the deployment of your business applications to that infrastructure.

Through our consulting services we can assist you with platform selection (private cloud, public cloud, and/or SaaS platforms). Then leverage our portfolio of services to optimize your deployments:

• AWS and Azure Minimum Viable Cloud (MVC) builds
• AWS and Azure Migrations
• AWS and Azure Disaster Recovery
• AWS and Azure Network Connectivity
• Container Deployments
• End User Computing in the Cloud
• Data Protection in the Cloud
• Cloud Security and Firewall Deployment AWS and Azure
• DevOps and CI/CD Optimization
• Data Modernization with SnowFlake
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Migration

Are you looking to accelerate your public cloud journey and de-risk the complexity of moving workloads to the public cloud? Whether it’s a lift-and-shift, lift-shift-and-modernize or any state in between, ePlus provides the proven methodology and experience to move workloads to the public cloud in an efficient manner while in parallel helping build your cloud operating model, which will keep your migrated workloads cost optimized and secure. ePlus partners with both AWS and Microsoft and is eligible for multiple different funding programs to help you offset the cost of migration.

• AWS Migration with the Migration Acceleration Program (MAP)
• Azure Migration with the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework

Optimization and Management

Already in the cloud? We can help you optimize your spend and compliance with our Public Cloud Cost Optimization offering. Keeping cloud-based workloads compliant to your standards and regulatory requirements can be a difficult struggle. Handling bills and tracking spend across multiple cloud providers is an added challenge. Our cloud management platform service provides visibility to spend analytics and forecasts, unified billing, identification of optimization opportunities, compliance checks, and enforcement across all your public cloud providers. Our offerings include:

• AWS and Azure Best Practice Reviews
• AWS Marketplace Optimization
• AppDynamics Instrumentation and Deployment
• ThousandEyes Instrumentation and Deployment
• Cloud Managed Services
• Cost Optimization
• Security Monitoring
• Data Protection
• Kubernetes Training
• Ansible Training

Education

Education is often overlooked as a critical path to success for cloud adoption. Familiarity and understanding of concepts, capabilities, and constraints is imperative for all stakeholders and functions within your business to ensure timely and successful adoption and ROI of cloud services. Our trainings and workshops range from foundational understanding of cloud to technical deep dives around orchestration and automation, providing the guidance needed to make sound decisions on your cloud journey.

Our offerings include:

• Cloud, Container, and Automation Explorations
• SDN/SD-WAN/Containers/Kubernetes/Ansible