Cloudscaling

• Cloud computing changes everything. It has a different revenue model, cost structures, technology stack, operating model, working capital model, and investment model than last generation hosting operations. Knowing and acting on this is the difference between a sustainable cloud and an unsustainable one.
• Building the first version of a platform is easy but building a platform that can be continuously and rapidly innovated requires architecting it from the beginning for both a rapid launch and rapid ongoing evolution.
• The technology for building clouds is not mature, and last-generation vendors are aggressively pushing expensive solutions that are not cost-effective. Knowing which path to take is critical.

Cloudscaling is the only cloud computing consultancy built by true pioneers and veterans who have designed, built, researched and managed some of the world’s largest clouds. To aid your team in building a successful and viable cloud, we provide a complete end-to-end set of services that begins with strategy & planning, continues with project execution, and then provides ongoing support.

• Product strategy: a clear starting point for  your product offerings that are suited to your customer’s needs but that is flexible enough for you to iterate as you go forward. It should include base services and a rough product roadmap.
• Technology strategy and plan: a set of technology platform choices that will allow you to construct an agile cloud with reduced risk. This will include detailed architecture, design, and hardware/software blueprints.
• Business model: a clear understanding of the customers, pains, offerings, revenue models, cost models, competitors, resources, key activities, key partners, platform model
• Financial model: a model that takes into account the new world of customer self-service and pay-as-you-go usage so that you can plan your operations accordingly.
• Implementation plan: a ready-to-execute plan that allows you to begin building your cloud immediately upon final approval.

Our team will work with yours to ensure that all of these are aligned so that you are ready to execute your plan.

• Providing project and program management from Start to Launch.
• Instituting solid product management and development practices.
• Coaching clients on web application development and cloud deployments.
• Building the core technology stack.
• Creating, delivering and executing a hand-off plan for migrating operational control to the internal client team.

Once your cloud has been launched, we will provide you with all the support you need to operate it.

• Pre-project Educational workshops on the cloud market and technology landscape
• Post-launch project support
• Ongoing market analyses to inform your product offerings roadmap

Our primary goal is to help you achieve success by building a cloud platform that can be launched into the market quickly and iterated rapidly so that you can take advantage of the quickly shifting market.

• Client: Top 5 Telecom in Korea
• Client goal: Launch the first public cloud in Korea.
• Solution: We are providing strategy, design, architecture, and implementation services for our customer's combination public/private cloud.

Case Study #2: Differentiated U.S. Cloud

• Client: Publicly listed ISP in U.S.
• Goal: Build a highly differentiated cloud in the U.S.
• Solution: We are providing product strategy, architecture, team development, and implementation services to this client to help them define, design, and build a highly differentiated and competitive public cloud offering.

Case Study #3: A new Australian cloud...in six months

• Client: CloudCentral (Australia)
• Business goal: Get to market with a cloud offering as quickly as possible in the Australian market.
• Solution: We helped this small and focussed team understand the market, select vendors, design a scaleable architecuture, and get to market in less than six months’ time.
• Testimonial: "When we needed professional guidance building our public cloud, we wanted the experts who had done it before so we went with Cloudscaling. They brought a proven track record in architecting and deploying cloud services that reduced our risk and accelerated our time to market, helping us launch our leading Australian infrastructure cloud in record pace. With Cloudscaling, we cut our time to market by 50% and launched a better cloud than we would have on our own. " - Kristoffer Sheather, CEO of Cloud Central.

Case Study #4: Platform-as-a-Service Transformation

• Client: Major PaaS provider
• Business goal: Improve operational efficiency
• Solution: We helped this team create a new cloud computing strategy to migrate from legacy hosted infrastructure into new infrastructure, significantly improving their capital efficiency, creating new alliance and partnership opportunities, and increasing their leadership position.