Incorporating business initiatives and addressing current challenges, Nuvalo provides guidance, market perspective and architecture assistance in preparation for IT service deployments.A true needs assessment requires a comprehensive investigation and review of current and proposed infrastructure, applications, technologies, and business drivers. Understanding the myriad of tools and solutions available, and the ability to pull the pieces together to ensure a successful implementation are the advantages of leveraging Nuvalo in this crucial stage.This engagement may include the following audit or workshop components:

• Capacity Planning – Augment and enhance your Asset Inventory with per server/desktop and aggregate utilization metrics to facilitate virtualization planning, hardware refresh and financial modeling of proposed managed/cloud services migrations.
• Financial Modeling – Take the guesswork out of Capital vs. Operational economic options with cost estimates based on true configuration metrics and peripheral components; Determine ideal service delivery.
• Market Benchmark – Solicit informal bids to ensure or understand market rates; Provides justification for renewal or migration strategies.
• Business Continuity – Define redundancy requirements including physical, virtual resource, availability zone, region and cloud; Evaluate business requirements by application.
• Total Cost of Ownership Analysis – Provides a cost basis for determining the economic value of an investment (project, application, capital investment, etc.). The results can include return on investment, internal rate of return, economic value added, return on information technology, and rapid economic justification, depending on the goal of the analysis. Typically the deliverables include:
  • Financial analysis of current costs per server and/or application.
  • Modeling of colocation and managed services options against current state.

A Total Cost of Ownership Analysis also includes total cost of acquisition and operating costs. This is used to gauge the viability of any capital investment.