Fordway Managed Services
GCP Tenancy Assessment
Benefit from a full assessment of your GCP environment, optionally including multi-cloud, hybrid and on-premises elements.
Fordway’s GCP Assessment service reviews all or defined subsets of an organisations’ current Google Cloud environment to identify where cost savings and efficiency gains can be made from optimising the environment.
Does your IT team spend the majority of their time performing day-to-day tasks, without time to look into new services and technologies?
Additionally, they might have a very narrow view of application usage, depending on the type of organisation. Fordway have worked with multiple business types and sectors, have a detailed understanding of the entire breadth of GCP offerings and hybrid solutions.
As part of the service Fordway can also plan and create business cases for the use of certain features, yet to be implemented within the organisation.
Using our strategy and business orientated consultants, working alongside technical resources, Fordway will provide detailed reports on the business benefits, both projected and realised at the end of any deployment/migration.
With our business and technical expertise, you can ensure the latest technologies are unlocked.
Download the GCP Tenancy Assessment full Service Description
Key Benefits
Increased Business Understanding
The business will understand where improvements/changes are required to assist with operation and security.
Collaborative Approach
We work to help your organisation improve, Fordway’s assigned staff will work alongside your IT staff and third parties collaboratively, to use exisiting skills to ensure the best outcome.
Take advantage of emerging technologies
Use Fordway’s experience of the appropriate new tools and applications available to improve business performance.
Detailed knowledge of management tools
Fordway have extensive knowledge of the GCP management tools, including, Cloud Monitoring, Armour and Chronicle. These can be configured to deliver the necessary statistics and dashboard for each organisation and used as part of the assessment.
Independent
Fordway will provide independent feedback on the benefits and limitations of the Azure solutions as well as enhance them.
Clear Recommendations
Fordway will produce a set of costed recommendations and options, on how to get the best out of your GCP cloud investments and any changes needed.
Fordway offers over 30 years of experience advising and delivering IT infrastructure and IT service delivery change to complex enterprises.
Foldaway’s consultancy can help inform your strategy and review the options relevant for your organisation with advice aligned to your business requirements.
3 step assessment
A typical scope and process for a GCP tenancy review includes…
Data Collection
Initial workshop with Customer IT team to understand current GCP environment, application, server and storage configuration and dependencies. Following this Fordway will initially require read-only access via GCP IAM into Customer’s GCP tenancy/subscriptions to understand the current environment, see what is installed and how it is configured.
Please download the full Service Description for a full breakdown on the data collected in this initial stage.
Analysis
Once we have a minimum of 2 week’s data in we will run the analytics using Fordway developed scripts and the standard capabilities of Cloud Monitoring, Armour and Chronicle.
Please download our Service Description for a full breakdown of what the analysis includes.
Reporting
Report and presentation detailing findings, recommendations and rationale for the recommendations.
Detail of any change proposals we recommend from the analysis, together with budgetary costs, timescales and dependencies to implement them.
HLD for any changes we recommend need to be implemented.
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GCP Tenancy Assessment FAQs
What does the service provide?
Fordway’s AWS Assessment service reviews all or defined subsets of an organisations’ current AWS environment to identify where cost savings and efficiency gains can be made from optimising environment. Examples of the elements we review are the following:
- Check for appropriate EC2 instance family selection and sizing for assigned instance workload
- Performance analysis of servers and storage to ensure that data is on appropriate storage tier
- Review VPC configuration and inter-VPC routing and security
- Understand access, authentication and management for operations staff and users
- Identify transaction based PaaS services, current charging tiers and validity
- Understand server and environment workload patterns to review automation, scaling and suspend/shutdown options
What does the service provide?
Fordway’s GCP Assessment service reviews all or defined subsets of an organisations’ current Google Cloud environment to identify where cost savings and efficiency gains can be made from optimising the environment. Examples of the elements we review are the following:
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Check for appropriate Compute Engine instance family selection and sizing for assigned instance workload
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Performance analysis of servers and storage to ensure that data is on appropriate storage tier
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Review VPC configuration and inter-VPC routing and security
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Understand access, authentication and management for operations staff and users
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Identify transaction-based PaaS services, current charging tiers and validity
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Understand server and environment workload patterns to review automation, scaling and suspend/shutdown options
What does onboarding involve?
The service is a consulting engagement. The following procedure will be used to provide the service:
Provide a combination of Project Manager, Account Manager, Relationship Manager, Lead Consultant and appropriate consultancy team, depending on the scope of the engagement. Fordway will generally seek to provide a peering alignment with the customer.
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Agree and formalise Non-Disclosure Agreements
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Review the customer requirements and determine the contractual requirements
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Agree the scope of the engagement with the customer and provide a Project Initiation Document which will define the engagement.
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Schedule work
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Commence engagement
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Provide deliverables
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Complete engagement
All engagements are run to Fordway’s PRINCE2 Agile processes.
Does this service suit any sized business?
A typical scope and process for an GCP tenancy review is for mid-sized enterprises with 20-100 GCP instances. If you are unsure please contact our team to find out if we are able to help.