CIOs are increasingly aware that the Linux platform offers a low-risk, robust, and value-for-money alternative to traditional UNIX platforms. Technology professionals agree that Linux has developed into a mature platform that handles many of the world's most demanding workloads, and at a much lower cost than proprietary UNIX offerings. At the same time, Linux leverages the open-source development model and business models which drive innovation and reduces costs.
LinuxIT consultants apply a wealth of business strategy knowledge, technical expertise, and proven methodologies to ensure our clients fully realise these benefits through an entirely successful migration to Linux.
Service Scope
Our migration assessment service comprises in depth assessment conducted by our experienced consultants in conjunction with your key personnel. This results in a clear understanding of the opportunities, risks issues and ROI specific to your migration opportunities.
The assessment uses a "Logic Tree" of decision gates for assessing applications and service requirements for current/future application/service hosting and also what infrastructure you should be hosting it on.
Deliverables:
- Executive summary of your current infrastructure with a detailed road map based on your stated goals and capabilities.
- Introduction to the LinuxIT migration methodology.
- Complete basic ROI/cost savings analysis with relevant and actionable data.
- Estimate of effort needed for complete migration and porting of applications.
- Risk assessment by weight and probability for all risks associated with migration, plus a mitigation strategy.
- Performance benchmark testing of your applications on the new platform.
Highlights:
- Receive a complete analysis of your current UNIX infrastructure.
- Evaluate how the migration will affect your applications and verify their performance on Linux.
- Develop a return on investment (ROI) report to present to executive management to secure funding.
