Recommending the optimal layout for an IT infrastructure has been the stock-in-trade of IT service providers and IT-consulting firms for a number of years. CSC has several different infrastructure evaluation methodologies – principal among them an assessment called OASIS.
We have recently announced a Cloud Adoption Assessment that is focused on identifying which business processes are suitable candidates for migration into the cloud. Once the organization’s cloud strategy is defined for its overarching business processes, it is time to look in more detail at the underlying IT infrastructure. Augmenting OASIS to be “cloud aware” would enable CSC to follow up a CAA with an engagement that made specific cloud optimization recommendations for datacenter infrastructure components.
OASIS is CSC’s datacenter assessment, a short, fixed-priced consulting engagement that generates a recommended optimization disposition for datacenter infrastructure and the associated Rough Order of Magnitude ROI and transition costs.
With the advent of cloud computing, OASIS will need to be revamped to accommodate various cloud service options. The interesting trade-off with OASIS design is always on the data elements. Read more
Technology — both infrastructure and applications — should be aligning and stretching itself to not only support the rate of change in healthcare, but also to influence the same.
Whatever trends are emerging, fading or in full swing, there are more than enough experts to declare, debunk or deny their existence. The fun part is not necessarily wading through all the contradicting opinions to select the one that represents the closest thing to reality, but waiting 12 months or so and watching them all say they were correct in how things actually turned out.
I tell people that the cloud starts at the bottom of the IT stack — on the infrastructure that is the backbone of the cloud. I’m going to explore this concept in my next two posts.
