CCS Media Limited

Cloud Readiness Assessment

The service provides an assessment to look at a baseline of the current environment, understanding the organisation, and communicating with stakeholders. The goal is to determine what steps need to be taken to become cloud ready, including an estimate of costing for running services in the cloud.

Features

• Discovery workshops
• Cloud readiness assessment and consultancy
• Software assessment
• Stakeholder discussions and interviews
• Define workload baseline, alignment and dependencies

Benefits

• Reduced cloud migration risk
• Forecast and understanding of ongoing cloud costs
• Assist with strategic decision making

£2,400 to £6,000 an instance

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at contractsandtenders@ccsmedia.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.

Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

530913081083145

Contact

Mike Lovett
01246 200200
contractsandtenders@ccsmedia.com

Planning

• Planning service: Yes
• How the planning service works: CCS Media would conduct a discovery call to identify current and desired landscape, drafting a statement of works according to requirements.; ; All designs are aligned to the Well-Architectured Framework (a series of design principles, designed by Microsoft) configured to the customer's requirements. CCS Media's architects are highly experienced in the design and delivery of cloud hosting services and can provide a range of standard solutions well tested in customer environments.
• Planning service works with specific services: No

Training

• Training service provided: Yes
• How the training service works: Within many projects CCS Media provide training focused on either administration or user activities. Training can be completed on either a customers or lab environments and focused on specific requirements identified in project planning stages. Training can either be completed by CCS Media's architects or engineers through delivery of specific training software or standard courses.
• Training is tied to specific services: Yes
• Services the training service works with:
  • Azure
  • Microsoft 365
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Wasabi Storage
  • AvePoint

Setup and migration

• Setup or migration service available: Yes
• How the setup or migration service works: The Cloud Readiness Assessment identifies key areas of concern, high return on investment items and other key requirements for any cloud migration. This allows creation of a clear and well defined cloud migration strategy ensuring a series of migration objectives, a suitable timeline for delivery and full understanding of risks and potential mitigations involved.; ; By understanding these objectives an organisation can understand their best practice route to the cloud for a smooth project delivery.
• Setup or migration service is for specific cloud services: Yes
• List of supported services:
  • Azure
  • Microsoft 365
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Wasabi Storage
  • AvePoint

Quality assurance and performance testing

• Quality assurance and performance testing service: Yes
• How the quality assurance and performance testing works: Throughout the Cloud Readiness Assessment, CCS Media will be analysing the performance of existing cloud and on-premise workloads. This assessment uses a range of tools to ensure accurate information is used within the design. ; ; As a quality assurance measure, CCS Media assess each completed design by an additional cloud architect to ensure accuracy and best practices guidance and implementation.

Security testing

• Security services: Yes
• Security services type:
  • Security strategy
  • Security risk management
  • Security design
  • Cyber security consultancy
  • Security testing
  • Security audit services
  • Other
• Other security services: Security Awareness Training
• Certified security testers: Yes
• Security testing certifications:
  • CHECK
  • CREST

Ongoing support

• Ongoing support service: Yes
• Types of service supported:
  • Buyer hosting or software
  • Hosting or software provided by a third-party organisation
• How the support service works: CCS Media have a standard package of support options available to our customers. These options range from light-touch reactive incident support through to full proactive management of an environment. Each support service is tailored to a customer's requirements with a catalogue of options provided, which can be selected at an individual workload level. Many customers use CCS Media's support services in a full management service for their production workloads and only retain reactive incident support for their development environments.

Service scope

• Service constraints: Professional Service support through CCS Media's Cloud Readiness Assessments is only available remotely, however, CCS Media can deploy consultants to site at an additional cost where necessary.

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Yes, at extra cost
• Support response times: Response times are defined by service level agreement, mutually agreed at the start of a customer contract (this includes weekend and overnight responses where required.)
• User can manage status and priority of support tickets: Yes
• Online ticketing support accessibility: None or don’t know
• Phone support: Yes
• Phone support availability: 24 hours, 7 days a week
• Web chat support: No
• Support levels: Support is available in a range of bespoke packages, priced at time of contract. All contracts provide an named technical account manager.

Resellers

• Supplier type: Reseller providing extra support
• Organisation whose services are being resold: Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Wasabi Storage and AvePoint

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Other security clearance
• Government security clearance: Up to Developed Vetting (DV)

Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: Yes
• Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001: NQA
• ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date: 3 December 2018
• What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover: N/A
• ISO 28000:2007 certification: No
• CSA STAR certification: No
• PCI certification: No
• Cyber essentials: Yes
• Cyber essentials plus: Yes
• Other security certifications: No

Social Value

• Social Value:

  Social Value

  Fighting climate change

  Fighting climate change

  Our Cloud Readiness Assessment assists with preparing organisations with transitioning to the cloud. Intrinsically, cloud-based computing provides many environmental and ecological efficiencies as opposed to conventional onsite datacentre. Our service ensures that organisations can take maximum advantage of these efficiencies, enabling a successful transition first time, with our transparent cost forecasting for effective budgeting.; ; Cloud based systems assist organisations in tackling climate change in the following ways:; ; Our partners have made substantial investment into energy efficient datacentres, resulting in cloud hosting facilities that operate at far greater power usage effectiveness than typical on-premise data centres. This results in lower carbon emissions due to the lower energy usage.; ; Additionally, for over a decade our partners have established processes to optimise server usage through techniques such as virtualisation and server consolidation. This results in the need for fewer servers, again reducing energy usage and requiring less extraction of raw materials which typically requires immense energy in production.; ; Cloud computing partners well with remote working practices, enabling users to access needed tools and data regardless of location, reducing need for commuting and business travel, mitigating carbon emitted during travel.; ; Logistically, operating cloud computing again mitigates an organisations direct carbon emissions from vehicle travel through no longer requiring delivery to end user or onsite engineer resource for maintenance.

Pricing

• Price: £2,400 to £6,000 an instance
• Discount for educational organisations: No

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at contractsandtenders@ccsmedia.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.