There are many reasons why we see organizations migrate to a public cloud platform. Some of these reasons range from accelerating growth and innovation, reducing overall IT costs, increasing business agility, improving security, eliminating end-of-life concerns, consolidating IT infrastructure and more.

However, as many businesses rush to adopt cloud, they realize that there are various considerations that make it challenging to move certain applications to cloud. Some of these challenges include:

· Lack of a clear strategy determined by business objectives.

· Legacy complex application that requires modernization.

· Cloud sprawl is caused by not having a clear understanding of the full scope of cloud environments.

· Exceeding the planned budget.

· Security vulnerabilities and failures of critical services.

· Human error and a lack of skills required to operate the new infrastructure.

Kyndryl Cloud Native 2-week Rapid Assessments are designed to focus on an application that is currently on-premises and has not been moved to cloud for various reasons. During this assessment, Kyndryl Consultants gather client business and technical requirements, including application data via various tools and interviews to understand all aspects of the application. Kyndryl consultants analyze the findings and make recommendations on applications readiness and possible remediations steps suggested to move to public cloud.

The assessment is a 2-week (approx. 60-hour) engagement which comprises of the following stages:

a. Kick-off and Understanding

b. Workshop and Analysis

c. Cloud Adoption findings and recommendations

The assessment will assess the following aspects of the customer application and associated workloads:

· Key client business and technical objectives

· Infrastructure data

· Application data including dependencies mapping

· Network data

· Processes, services and related utilization