MomentumSI offers enterprises and ISVs consulting services to reduce the risk and costs associated with the adoption of public and private clouds.

Strategy and Business Case

Developing a practical strategy and business case is critical to the success of a cloud program. Our engagements are tailored to align with your business goals and associated IT strategy. It is common for our customers to have themes which represent the underlying motivation for cloud adoption. Examples include:

• Shutting down existing data centers and moving workloads to an external service provider
• Moving greenfield application delivery to IaaS and PaaS providers
• Establishing internal private clouds and modifying the IT processes to align with an agile operating model
• Leveraging clouds for disaster recovery, dev/test labs, burst workloads and high performance computing

Our strategy and business case consulting engagement results in a set of recommendations to achieve your vision. Emphasis is placed on understanding the costs, potential ROI and the inevitable risks. In addition, we provide you with strawman program and project plans that can be tailored to your risk tolerance. Aggressive companies can choose to run multiple work streams in parallel to achieve quicker results, while risk-adverse companies can adopt a slower,  incremental approach.

Technology Architecture

Both private and public clouds offer significant advantages to adopters who successfully navigate the new architecture. Using current application architectures on IaaS and PaaS will lead to disappointing results. MomentumSI has a world-class architecture team versed in the technologies, patterns and approaches used in modern cloud platforms. Our technology architecture engagements leverage:

• A comprehensive reference model and associated reference architectures
• Use of the MomentumSI cloud lab for rapid testing and evaluation including performance benchmarking
• An exhaustive set of cloud patterns and recommendations for implementation
• Architectural mentoring for key projects

Organizational Change Management

The two most common reasons companies are adopting cloud computing are: 1) reducing costs, 2) improving agility. Our organizational change management (OCM) program focuses on the second motivation, improving agility. Self-service clouds enable a much more fluid IT supply chain. Architects, developers, QA professionals, release managers, operations specialists are all affected. The knee-jerk reaction is often to resist change. Momentum helps organization adopt an agile IT model that embraces the capabilities offered by the cloud infrastructure. Our OCM specialists:

• Identify new processes, policies and practices and retiring outdated approaches
• Assess team members’ job knowledge and making recommendations for education and job transitions
• Brand the cloud program, defining the key messages and delivering a long-term plan for change
• Execute change campaigns that bring awareness to the program and its successes

MomentumSI Cloud Consulting services have been delivered across a variety of industries and companies of all sizes, including Fortune 100 organizations. For more info, please contact us: