Cloud Assessments
Fortified Data’s Cloud Data Assessments provide a comprehensive, structured evaluation of your current environment, future goals, and workload demands. Whether you’re working with public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid infrastructure, we help you gain the clarity needed to make smart, scalable, and cost-effective choices for your data estate.
Unlike general cloud assessments, we focus specifically on your data infrastructure—delivering actionable insights that power your cloud database strategy from planning to execution.
What Is a Cloud Data Assessment?
What Is a Cloud Data Assessment?
A Cloud Data Assessment is a focused consulting engagement that analyzes your current data architecture, evaluates workload patterns, and produces a prioritized roadmap for modernizing and migrating databases to the cloud.
Whether you’re operating on-prem, in a private cloud, or already partially in the cloud, Fortified Data tailors the assessment to meet your business, technical, and operational requirements—ensuring a seamless and strategic path forward.
Key Components of Fortified Data’s Cloud Data Assessment
- Current State Analysis: We conduct a full audit of your existing infrastructure—including on-premises systems, current cloud deployments, and private
cloud setups. This includes data volumes, performance benchmarks, licensing structures, and total operational costs, giving you a clear baseline
for transformation planning. - Workload Characterization: We classify and analyze each workload across your environment—transactional, analytical, batch, or real-time—understanding
its unique performance, availability, and scalability requirements. This informs optimal cloud service
selection (e.g., managed instances, distributed databases, serverless models) for each data workload. - Migration Planning: Our team evaluates the complexity of each migration path, identifying which databases are best suited for lift-and-shift vs. those
that require re-architecture. We assess data transfer strategies, potential downtime windows, and sequencing recommendations to ensure smooth
transitions with minimal disruption. - Cost-Benefit Analysis: We compare your current licensing, hardware, and staffing costs against cloud provider offerings. This includes evaluating managed services,
scaling options, and licensing bundles (e.g., Microsoft’s Azure Hybrid Benefit). You’ll gain a realistic picture of the total cost of ownership and
where to expect savings—or necessary investment—for long-term gains. - Performance Optimization Opportunities: We uncover ways to improve performance through cloud-native enhancements such as auto-scaling,
global replication, and advanced analytics. The result: a better performing environment that leverages the full capabilities of your
chosen cloud platform.
What You’ll Get: A Clear Path to Cloud
Our Cloud Data Assessment engagement delivers a comprehensive roadmap that empowers your team with:
- Prioritized recommendations for modernization and migration
- Timeline estimates for each stage of your cloud journey
- Risk assessments to understand and mitigate potential pitfalls
- Projected ROI and TCO analysis to support executive decision-making
- Architecture recommendations aligned with your workloads and business objectives
Why Choose Fortified Data for Your Cloud Assessment?
- Multi-Cloud Experience Unlike general IT consultancies, we specialize in data. Every assessment is tailored to your SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, or cloud-native data infrastructure.
- Workload-Driven Strategy We build migration and optimization plans based on your actual data workloads—not generic best practices.
- Executive-Ready Results From finance to IT leadership, our deliverables are actionable and aligned to business priorities—with crystal-clear ROI projections and risk mitigation strategies.
- Security and Compliance Built In Our assessments go beyond technical specs to include governance, compliance, and security insights tailored to your industry.
- Trusted Partner in Optimization Post-assessment, we can support execution through o
Your cloud environment should power growth—not complexity. Fortified Data’s Cloud Assessment Services are the first step toward a smarter, leaner, and more secure cloud strategy.