Cloud Readiness Assessment | Cloud Licencing

Making software migration to the cloud easy

As organizations adopt cloud-based software and infrastructure, Livingstone has developed cloud services that deliver value at every stage of your cloud journey. Livingstone’s Cloud Services help you plan to move critical software and infrastructure to the cloud, monitor the migration and then optimize consumption and costs in the cloud…

Optimizing on-premises licensing
Identifying key candidates for cloud migration
Tracking the move from on-premises to cloud
Optimizing visibility and cost of software and infrastructure in the cloud
Providing a single view of ‘hybrid cloud’ consumption

The ability to track concurrently resources both on-premises and in the cloud is becoming more important
as software vendors increasingly adopt a hybrid cloud model, encouraging customers to consume
new products and services in the cloud while continuing to support legacy on-premises applications.

Cloud Migration

Be cloud ready through…

Software baselines (Effective License Position by vendor)
Cost/benefit analysis of on-premise, hybrid & cloud options
Cloud readiness & compliance planning for Azure/AWS & server products.

Managing Cloud Software & Services

Providing ‘As-a-Service’ optimization…

IaaS inventory reporting (incl. AWS, Azure)
User profiling & optimization for SaaS applications (incl. Office 365, Salesforce)
SaaS administration & governance review.

Compliance, migration & optimization planning

Take control of your cloud spend on-premises, in the cloud and in-between.

Whether it’s in the form of on-premise software, cloud subscription services, cloud infrastructure or applications hosted on third-party cloud platforms, chances are you spend a lot of money on cloud services. To make sure that’s money well-spent and that your organization is not exposed to unacceptable costs and risks, Livingstone gives you both visibility of your entire cloud estate AND recommendations on how to optimize that spend.

BENEFITS

Total visibility of cloud spend: on-premises, SaaS, PaaS and IaaS
Identifies opportunities to reduce costs by moving key apps & workflows to cloud
Optimizes cloud subscriptions
Right-sizes cloud instances and monitors for over-spend

Crown Commercial Service Supplier

Our Cloud Services can be procured by Government and other Public Sector bodies through the UK Crown Commercial Service’s (CCS) G-Cloud 12 Framework, our services are now listed on Lot 2 – Cloud Software and on Lot 3 – Cloud Support services. Our group is also able to provide services G-Cloud through the Digital Outcomes & Specialists 4 framework, for more information please visit our news page or the CCS Digital Market Place.