Cloud Assessment Services

Cloud Assessment Services That Answer the Question: “Should We Move to the Cloud?”

Whether you’re considering investing in cloud services or looking to better manage your current cloud costs, a cloud assessment will uncover your options and opportunities.

Work with an Essendis cloud specialist to:

Avoid investments in over-sized systems and unnecessary spending.

Understand available cloud offerings and how the cloud can fit with your business.

Manage your current cloud costs more effectively.

Enhance the performance of your current cloud investment.

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What is a Cloud Assessment?

A cloud assessment identifies opportunities for cloud service solutions within your IT network and systems to improve business operations and efficiencies.

Cloud Service Expertise Grounded in Experience

Cloud adoption is becoming increasingly vital for businesses seeking to harness the efficiency and cost savings of cloud technology. Embarking on a cloud journey, however, necessitates a comprehensive cloud migration assessment to identify gaps in current systems and align the migration strategy with business objectives. This assessment is a crucial step in the migration process, as it helps in formulating a tailored plan to migrate to the cloud effectively.

A well-planned migration strategy considers all aspects of the target environment in the cloud, ensuring that the new cloud environment is optimized for the business's specific needs. One of the key advantages of cloud migration strategies is the potential for significant cost savings, primarily through the optimized use of resources in the cloud. However, achieving these savings requires a clear understanding of the various aspects of cloud technology and how they align with the company's goals.

Additionally, security requirements are a critical component of any cloud migration strategy. As businesses transfer their data and operations to the cloud environment, ensuring that this transition adheres to stringent security standards is paramount. This involves a thorough evaluation of the security protocols of the chosen cloud provider and how they integrate with the company’s existing security framework.

Ultimately, a successful cloud migration not only brings about cost efficiencies and operational improvements but also positions the company to leverage the full spectrum of benefits offered by cloud technology, aligning with its long-term business objectives.
Essendis consultants’ expertise spans public, private and hybrid cloud models with experience working with the following providers and cloud computing services.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Azure

Azure Stack

Citrix

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Hyper-V

OpenStack

VMware

Database as a Service (DBaaS)

Desktop Virtualization

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Identity and Access Management as a Service (IAMaaS)

Platform as a service (PaaS)

Software as a service (SaaS)

Types of Cloud Assessments

Select the assessment that matches where you are today. Each one identifies opportunities for operational efficiency, optimization, standardization, virtualization and more.

Making the Move to the Cloud: Pre-Cloud Assessment

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Essendis takes an inventory of your existing infrastructure, systems, applications, requirements and end users, then identifies the cloud providers, solutions and migration approach that fit your business. Cloud use cases may include:

Email: Understand when and how to move internally hosted email solutions to the cloud.

Datacenter: Secure your company assets on technology that grows with your business, and frees up space and company resources.

Applications or services: Increase flexibility and speed to better serve your employees and clients with cloud-based applications and services.

Intranet: Shift your workspace to the cloud so it runs quickly for all satellite offices.

Making the Most of Your Cloud: Current Cloud Assessment

Essendis evaluates your current cloud infrastructure, technology and billing to find where you can reduce spend and improve performance. You see where hosting and computing power are oversized, and you get options for handling heavier loads during your busy seasons.

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What a Cloud Assessment Evaluates

A cloud assessment starts with your current workloads and the dependencies between them. You learn what can move as it stands, what needs rework first and what is better left in place, so a later cloud migration services engagement follows evidence instead of assumption.

Next comes platform fit and licensing. Azure and Microsoft 365 cover most workloads, while defense contractors handling controlled unclassified information often need Microsoft GCC High rather than a commercial tenant, a choice that shapes cost, tooling and timeline.

Security and compliance requirements are mapped in the same pass, because they constrain the design rather than decorate it. Identity, data residency, logging and access control all influence which services you can use and how they have to be configured.

The result is a cost model and a sequenced roadmap: what moves first, what it costs to run and which dependencies gate each phase. That is what turns a cloud migration evaluation into a plan rather than a guess, and it gives our cloud engineering services team a clear brief to build against.