For most businesses the first step in the cloud journey is vacating their existing data center and moving to a platform that can provide them greater availability, scalability, and flexibility as they look to empower their business with AWS Cloud. The Effectual VMware Cloud on AWS Quick Start will provide you with a Proof of Concept environment for testing that can easily roll into production.

What we do: In this 6–10-week engagement, Effectual will partner with you to understand your unique goals and challenges, assess your current environment, deploy a hybrid environment integrating your on-premises infrastructure, setup necessary network connections, and migrate your first workload.

Execution:

• Interview key stakeholders to properly document business challenges and goals

• Assess and Document: Current hardware and network infrastructure Current Applications Potential hardware landing zone options

• Build: VMware Cloud on AWS Proof of Concept VPN or Direct Connect to existing data center

• Migrate: Enable VMware HCX

• Operate: Explore Effectual Managed Services to complement your existing IT Operations Read out to review findings