As enterprises build their cloud adoption strategy, conducting a cloud readiness assessment is of strategic importance. HCL believes that application readiness and compliance controls are the pre-requisites for determining a business-oriented cloud adoption strategy. HCL’s Cloud Assessment and Readiness Tool (CART) enable organizations to assess their “Cloud-readiness” using a powerful self-driven analysis. It uses a broad array of 25 technical, business, compliances and security parameters to perform the cloud-readiness analysis across three different aspects - Technical & Architecture, Application & Security. The Tool is based on Excel based workbook with easy to use methodology for filling the data & then helps generating a standard & basic Cloud Assessment within minutes

1. CARTing to the Cloud
How Organizations Can Virtualize their IT Systems in a Seamless Manner

2. Cloud Assessment and Readiness
Tool (CART) evaluates “Cloud-readiness”
of an organization
based on 20+ parameters
spanning technical, business,
compliance and security
domains. This self-driven
assessment takes into
consideration aspects like
present IT architecture,
application and security before
presenting a comprehensive
analysis.
What is HCL Cloud
Assessment
and Readiness
Tool

3. How Will CART Benefit Your Organization?
• Will align cloud computing and
business strategies for resource
maximization
• Recommend best suited platform
and solution customization
• Provide comprehensive costing
and ROI before initialization
The assessment
typically takes 4-6
weeks to provide
analysis

4. CART
Prerequisites
• Infrastructure &
Application Details: HCL
will need access to your IT
landscape to understand
application/workload
behavior
• Compliances Details: HCL
will require regulatory
requirement details like audit
reports for specific
compliances

5. • Cloud Assessment Report - This includes
workload and applications mapped to recommended
deployment models in Cloud including IAAS (Private
or Virtual) across Public & Private
• Deployment Model Choice: Includes Cloud
recommendation w.r.t. to PaaS , SaaS or PaaS for
specific workloads categories
What CART
will Yield

6. Questions
• Why it is recommended to embrace Cloud computing
• How CART analyzes an organization’s Cloud computing needs?
• What kind of ROI can be expected after migrating to Cloud?
• Is data security a concern in Cloud computing?
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