Catch the Enterprise Cloud WAVE

By Siki Giunta

While an enterprise cloud lets you move quickly and reduce costs, building your own enterprise cloud can be complicated and time consuming. Besides, just because you're ready for the cloud does not mean you want to do it all right now. Far better to move in stages, one workload at a time, at a pace that works for you.

That's why we developed the CSC WAVE. Short for Workloads, Application and Value for the Enterprise, WAVE is a managed, results-focused approach to onboarding and implementing workloads and applications to the cloud. Catch the CSC WAVE, and you'll jump-start your move to the enterprise cloud. It's a simple, low-risk path that can save you time and money, and help you get more from the cloud.

WAVE manages your cloud adoption in stages. It's both an easy way to start, and a simple way to grow. WAVE helps you prioritize your highest-value opportunities, as well as the ones that are simplest to accomplish. That might mean reducing the operating cost of your legacy architecture. Or quickly moving from a physical infrastructure to the cloud.

With the savings you achieve at this first level, you can then fund the development of new applications with strong business value. For example, how about migrating x86 applications to the cloud? Accelerating cycle times by moving application development, testing and staging to an enterprise cloud? Or refreshing your enterprise resource planning (ERP) application with an accelerated deployment?

H.D. Smith is one company benefiting from the CSC WAVE. David Guzmán, CIO of this healthcare-products supplier, originally wanted to replace an aging IT infrastructure, eliminate the data center footprint, and enable agile infrastructure expansion. By working the CSC WAVE, Guzmán and his team moved to an end-to-end, off-premises cloud and hosting managed service. Best of all, they did it in waves, one project at a time.

Guzman is also featured in the video below supporting H.D. Smith's WAVE adoption.

Of course, CSC will be there for you at every step. We point out where a cloud transformation is likely to succeed — and where it may not. We can also help you implement Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) frameworks, make the transition to "as a service" business models, exploit the cloud's distributed and parallel processing capabilities, and reduce your application costs.

The CSC WAVE is an easy way to begin your move to the enterprise cloud. The WAVE is also your simple way to grow, accelerating your returns one workload at a time.

Catch the CSC WAVE: http://www.csc.com/enterprise_cloud