Our Expert Cloud Advisory Resulted in 30% Less Operations Cost

Learn how StradIT helped a US-based financial institution move from a fragmented legacy data-center landscape to a cloud-ready, cost-optimized portfolio, without compromising regulatory, security, or data-residency requirements.

Client Overview

A leading US-based financial institution, operating under strict regulatory, audit, and data residency requirements, with a heterogeneous landscape of mainframe, mid-tier, and distributed systems. The client faced several structural challenges:

Fragmented application portfolios
Deep dependencies on proprietary middleware
Limited observability across environments
Multiple regulators enforcing stringent compliance requirements

The absence of a common framework to assess cloud readiness resulted in higher operational costs and eroding margins. A simple lift-and-shift approach would have only moved costs, not optimized them.

A structured, evidence-based cloud advisory approach was required.

Our Proven Scale and Experience in Cloud Advisory

StradIT brings a mature, execution focused cloud practice to engagements. With 5+ years of dedicated experience in cloud solutions and a core group of 30+ cloud and infrastructure specialists, our CoE in Cloud & Infrastructure has successfully managed 7+ data centers and 5,000+ cloud instances for clients across regulated industries. These accelerators allow StradIT to move from assessment to repeatable, codified implementation without relying on one-off scripts.

Scope Of StradIT Cloud Advisory

When the client reached StradIT for our Cloud Advisory Services, we played at the front foot and came up with a fully-optimized cloud advisory covering:

End-to-end IT service assessment
Detailed cloud readiness assessment
100% personalized cloud deployment
Extensive technology evaluation
Multi-year cloud roadmap

Solutions Offered

We bring our hands-on mastery over cloud & infrastructure and created a multi-step cloud strategy.

Explore our CoE

Our team from Cloud & Infrastructure CoE first collected and rationalized the complete IT service catalogue across lines of business. It then mapped each service to underlying applications, infrastructure components, and data domains. We helped the client identify services with redundant or overlapping functionality.

We then performed functional, financial, and technical feasibility analysis for each service so that the client is able to easily evaluate application architecture patterns, integration style, and data flows. We also applied a scoring model for cloud suitability. By now, the client has a priority list of cloud-ready services.

To achieve result-driven cloud deployment, the team classified workloads into public, private, and hybrid cloud candidates and defined isolation requirements for regulated data, customer PII, and payment workload. Additionally, we mapped non-functional requirements to avoid resource wastage. This allowed the client to pick deployment models based on evidence instead of generic best practices.

Based on the assessment and client's requirement, the team constructs a detailed and viable evaluation framework around IaaS, PaaS, and managed services while comparing hyperscaler offerings. We carefully identified preferred vendors and implementation partners offering solutions aligned with the client's objectives.

We create the cloud roadmap that defines migration waves, covering quick wins, and establish a cloud governance, and help our client to realize early benefits while preparing for deeper modernization.

Outcomes And Benefits Delivered

Within the first phases of execution of our cloud advisory, the client realized tangible benefits driven by the advisory outputs.

Peace of mind and hassle-free migration, backed by a clear, executable roadmap and an agreed operating model, come built in with every engagement. If you are finding it hard to navigate complex cloud decisions, talk to StradIT's Cloud Advisory team today and get a structured plan your teams can execute with confidence.

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