Overview
What Our Cloud Services Cover
Help to plan, build, run and improve cloud platforms, from the first assessment to ongoing optimization.
Types of Work
- Cloud readiness and strategy
- Workload migration and modernization
- Cloud architecture and landing zones
- Platform engineering and automation
- Reliability, performance and cost optimization
Environments
- Public cloud
- Hybrid cloud, combining cloud and on-premises
- Multi-cloud, across more than one provider
Scoped Separately
- Application rewrites beyond migration
- Ongoing managed cloud operations
- Security services (see Cybersecurity Services)
- Software licences and cloud subscription costs
Challenges
Challenges We Help Address
The common problems that lead organizations to look for cloud and platform engineering support.
What We Deliver
Our Cloud Services
What each service covers and the value it is intended to bring. Engagements include only what you need.
Our Approach
How the Service Is Delivered
A staged approach, agreed with you at the start of each engagement.
Discover and Assess
Understand your business requirements, current environment, constraints and risks.
Design and Plan
Define the recommended approach, scope, responsibilities and milestones.
Implement and Integrate
Deliver the agreed work, coordinate dependencies and validate each change.
Validate and Transition
Test the outcome, document the environment and hand over agreed responsibilities.
Optimize and Support
Improve cost, performance and reliability over time, where included in the engagement.
Use Cases
What You Can Achieve with This Service
The scenarios this service most often supports. Start with the one closest to your situation.
More Related Use Cases
- Improve Cloud Application Performance
- Modernize Legacy Applications for Cloud and Digital Services
- Monitor Applications and Troubleshoot Issues Faster
- Modernize Servers and Compute Infrastructure
- Control IT Spending and Assign Cost Ownership
- Secure Cloud Infrastructure and Workloads
- Protect Data Across Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Environments
- Plan for Business Continuity and Minimize Downtime
Solutions
Related Solutions
The solutions this service helps deliver, and how it supports each one.
Technology
Technologies We Work With
The technology areas this service works with. Specific platforms and partner status are confirmed per engagement.
Who It Is For
Who This Service Is For
The organizations, teams and environments this service is designed for.
Organization Profile
- Organizations planning or expanding their cloud use
- Teams running cloud platforms that have grown without a clear design
Roles and Teams
- IT and infrastructure leaders
- Platform, operations and application teams
- Finance and procurement, for cloud cost ownership
Environments
- Public, hybrid and multi-cloud
- On-premises workloads planned for migration
Before You Engage
What to Consider Before Engaging
Having these points ready helps scope the work accurately.
- Business objectives and how success will be measured
- The current environment, dependencies and integration needs
- Security, data handling, governance and compliance requirements
- Access to systems, and who makes decisions on your side
- Scope boundaries, assumptions and anything that may affect timing
- Engagement models, support hours and pricing
Measuring Performance
Measuring Service Performance
Example measures, not commitments or results achieved by Signisys. Agree a baseline, and keep targets separate from measured results.
Availability
The share of time business-critical workloads are available to users.
Resource Utilization
How much of the provisioned cloud capacity is actually used.
Cost Variance
The difference between planned and actual cloud spending.
Deployment Success
The share of changes and deployments completed without failure or rollback.
Why Signisys
Why Work with Signisys
How Signisys works, from the first assessment to handover and beyond.
FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about cloud services and platform engineering.
What does the service include?
Cloud readiness assessment, migration and modernization, architecture and landing zones, platform engineering, reliability and cost optimization. Each engagement is scoped to the services you need.
Which business needs does it address?
Typical needs include moving workloads to the cloud, controlling cloud costs, improving availability and performance, and bringing order to hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Can the service work with our existing environment?
Yes. The work starts from an assessment of your current environment and existing investments.
What information is needed to scope the work?
Your objectives, an outline of the current environment and workloads, key dependencies, compliance requirements and any timing constraints.
How is success measured?
Agree a baseline at the start for a few measures, such as availability, utilization, cost variance and deployment success, and track them over time.
What affects delivery time, scope or cost?
Mainly the number and complexity of workloads, their dependencies, the target architecture, compliance needs and the availability of your teams.
Related Content
Related Outcomes, Industries and Partners
Business outcomes this service supports, and related industry and partner pages.
Business Outcome
Reduce IT Costs and Get More Value from Technology
Business Outcome
Modernize IT Infrastructure and Applications
Business Outcome
Improve IT Reliability and Business Continuity
Technology Partner
AWS Solutions and Services
Technology Partner
Microsoft Solutions and Services
Insights
Cloud Insights and Guides
Discuss Your Cloud Goals
Tell us about your goals, current environment and priorities to explore an approach that fits your needs.