SAIC CloudScend is a family of solutions designed to help government agencies manage, modernize and migrate their workloads to the cloud faster, with reduced risk and maximum value. CloudScend's three core solution domains — Explore, Transform and Operate — address the complex tasks of cloud migration, management and optimization, delivering secure and transformative cloud environments. Government agencies can achieve increased operational efficiencies, lower operational costs, and reduced risks while benefiting from secure, on-demand access to cloud-enabled technologies.
The CloudScend family of solutions is adaptable and modular. SAIC's cloud specialists collaborate with customers to determine their progress on the cloud journey and identify the specific CloudScend solutions they require. The outcome is an expedited delivery of cloud environments and capabilities that are customized to maximize the benefits of each customer's transition to the cloud.
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CLOUDSCEND’S PROVEN APPROACHES ENSURE
Regardless of where you are on your cloud journey, CloudScend quickly and reliably moves you forward with organized and coherent strategies and tactics and always gives you a clear view of what’s happening with your IT and cloud environment. You’ll get a secure, resilient and optimized environment that will:
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Take you on a faster path to compliance with government cloud security controls
Enhance your agency or organization’s agility by allowing personnel to quickly develop and integrate innovative new applications and business services with more consistent and commercial-like user experiences
Bring business agility and financial benefits starting from the first day and even greater cost savings and organizational efficiency over time
Be ready for continuous performance and efficiency improvements through innovations and new and emerging technologies
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A WORRY-FREE PATH TO THE CLOUD
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Explore
Assess technical, business and financial readiness for cloud
Prepare the new cloud environment, including enterprise, security and data architectures
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Plan the migration, following the governance architectures and roadmap
Schedule migration
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Our CloudScend Explore solution analyzes a customer’s workloads for readiness as well as budget constraints and compliance needs and works all of them together into the migration plan. Regardless of the maturity and technical debt of the as-is state, our process-driven Foresight tool automates analyses, rationalization and planning, providing our specialists with measurable insights into application quality and cloud-readiness. We provide the customer with a clear view of their cloud future, and our planning ensures safe and optimal migration, lowering risk and rework.
Transfer databases and applications to new cloud environment
Replatform, rehost or rewrite applications
SAIC performs every type of migration, with years of experience handling large-scale government cloud migrations. Our CloudScend Transform solution is built from that experience, equipped with a comprehensive knowledge base, best practices, repeatable processes, services and tools that include analytics and dashboards and automated ones for testing and quality control. With Transform, the customer has confidence knowing SAIC executes a proven and holistic migration framework and can continuously track the performance of newly transferred applications.
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Avoid interference with current business operations
Maintain visibility of migration progress
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TRANSFORM
Provide cloud management services, including daily operation, security and oversight activities
Improve key business processes and provide training and troubleshooting support
CloudScend Operate enables customers to outsource management of their cloud services. SAIC can provide managed services after performing CloudScend Transform for a customer, or we can manage a transition from an in-house IT department. We manage all types of environments, including on-premise private clouds, public clouds and hybrid clouds. The CloudScend Management Platform gives customers control over provision services, IT operations, security, automation, financial optimization and visualizations through a single pane of glass for hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
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Consolidate billing and financial management activities
Perform data-driven analytics for continuous insights and improvement
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Operate
SAIC assesses and provides security services for cloud services and applications equivalent to FedRAMP Moderate and High, as well as DOD Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide Impact Levels 2, 4, 5 and 6, depending on the customer.
Secure
SAIC finds ways to keep improving applications and the cloud environment, such as system performance, reliability, compute/storage cost, development, security and operational efficiencies.
OPTIMIZE
Our modern technology stack of automation tools, analytics and processes reduce costs, accelerate delivery of capabilities and implement continuous improvements to the customer’s cloud environment.
Automate
SAIC Innovation Factory and technology partners come up with and deploy novel technologies that improve cloud capabilities, business processes, decision-making and enterprise readiness.
Innovate
Explore
TRANSFORM
Operate
Explore
TRANSFORM
Operate
Explore
TRANSFORM
Operate
Secure
Secure
Optimize
automate
Innovate
Optimize
automate
Innovate
In addition, CloudScend includes proven practices of secure, innovate, automate and optimize to enhance and supercharge cloud migration outcomes and the cloud’s transformative benefits for each customer.
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SAIC assesses the as-is state and, in collaboration with the customer, develops a cloud strategy with a target architecture and security objectives. This includes a plan for migrating applications and workloads to a desired state that aligns with the customer’s cloud and business goals.
EXPLORE
SAIC makes applications and workloads cloud-ready and moves them to the cloud. This can be a single application, multiple applications, or a customer’s entire portfolio. Working with the customer, SAIC may retire inefficient applications and rewrite them for the cloud, which will lower sustainment costs and provide efficient, commercial-like user experiences.
TRANSFORM
SAIC provides cloud management services, including daily operations and maintenance activities, via anything/everything-as-a-service (XaaS) or managed services models that are flexible for the customer. We look continuously at ways to optimize the cloud environment to drive efficiency, lower cost and improve business processes.
OPERATE
As the complexity of the “cloud” grows, agencies are faced with the challenge of adopting new technology effectively and efficiently. They need to transform and modernize their businesses and create a more efficient way to develop and deliver secure services that leverage emerging technologies to drive down costs, increase standardization and lower the government’s operational risk.
SAIC’s CloudScend is an integrated approach that provides a framework with a family of offerings: a mix of strategies, services and products available to help customers in their cloud modernization journey, no matter where they are in their journey.
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SAIC CloudScend is a family of solutions designed to help government agencies manage, modernize and migrate their workloads to the cloud faster, with reduced risk and maximum value. CloudScend's three core solution domains — Explore, Transform and Operate — address the complex tasks of cloud migration, management and optimization, delivering secure and transformative cloud environments. Government agencies can achieve increased operational efficiencies, lower operational costs, and reduced risks while benefiting from secure, on-demand access to cloud-enabled technologies.
The CloudScend family of solutions is adaptable and modular. SAIC's cloud specialists collaborate with customers to determine their progress on the cloud journey and identify the specific CloudScend solutions they require. The outcome is an expedited delivery of cloud environments and capabilities that are customized to maximize the benefits of each customer's transition to the cloud.
Accelerating modernization and migration to achieve mission transformation
CloudScend
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CONTACT Us to get started
SAIC assesses the as-is state and, in collaboration with the customer, develops a cloud strategy with a target architecture and security objectives. This includes a plan for migrating applications and workloads to a desired state that aligns with the customer’s cloud and business goals.
EXPLORE
SAIC makes applications and workloads cloud-ready and moves them to the cloud. This can be a single application, multiple applications, or a customer’s entire portfolio. Working with the customer, SAIC may retire inefficient applications and rewrite them for the cloud, which will lower sustainment costs and provide efficient, commercial-like user experiences.
TRANSFORM
SAIC provides cloud management services, including daily operations and maintenance activities, via anything/everything-as-a-service (XaaS) or managed services models that are flexible for the customer. We look continuously at ways to optimize the cloud environment to drive efficiency, lower cost and improve business processes.
OPERATE
As the complexity of the “cloud” grows, agencies are faced with the challenge of adopting new technology effectively and efficiently. They need to transform and modernize their businesses and create a more efficient way to develop and deliver secure services that leverage emerging technologies to drive down costs, increase standardization and lower the government’s operational risk.
SAIC’s CloudScend is an integrated approach that provides a framework with a family of offerings: a mix of strategies, services and products available to help customers in their cloud modernization journey, no matter where they are in their journey.
MODERNIZATION FROM EARLY-STAGE EXPLORATION THROUGH ONGOING OPERATIONS
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Secure
Secure
Optimize
Optimize
automate
automate
Innovate
Innovate
Explore
TRANSFORM
Operate
Explore
TRANSFORM
Operate
Explore
TRANSFORM
Operate
Explore
TRANSFORM
Operate
Assess technical, business and financial readiness for cloud
Prepare the new cloud environment, including enterprise, security and data architectures
Our CloudScend Explore solution analyzes a customer’s workloads for readiness as well as budget constraints and compliance needs and works all of them together into the migration plan. Regardless of the maturity and technical debt of the as-is state, our process-driven Foresight tool automates analyses, rationalization and planning, providing our specialists with measurable insights into application quality and cloud-readiness. We provide the customer with a clear view of their cloud future, and our planning ensures safe and optimal migration, lowering risk and rework.
•
•
Plan the migration, following the governance architectures and roadmap
Schedule migration
•
•
Explore
Transfer databases and applications to new cloud environment
Replatform, rehost or rewrite applications
SAIC performs every type of migration, with years of experience handling large-scale government cloud migrations. Our CloudScend Transform solution is built from that experience, equipped with a comprehensive knowledge base, best practices, repeatable processes, services and tools that include analytics and dashboards and automated ones for testing and quality control. With Transform, the customer has confidence knowing SAIC executes a proven and holistic migration framework and can continuously track the performance of newly transferred applications.
•
•
Avoid interference with current business operations
Maintain visibility of migration progress
•
•
TRANSFORM
Provide cloud management services, including daily operation, security and oversight activities
Improve key business processes and provide training and troubleshooting support
CloudScend Operate enables customers to outsource management of their cloud services. SAIC can provide managed services after performing CloudScend Transform for a customer, or we can manage a transition from an in-house IT department. We manage all types of environments, including on-premise private clouds, public clouds and hybrid clouds. The CloudScend Management Platform gives customers control over provision services, IT operations, security, automation, financial optimization and visualizations through a single pane of glass for hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
•
•
Consolidate billing and financial management activities
Perform data-driven analytics for continuous insights and improvement
•
•
Operate
SAIC assesses and provides security services for cloud services and applications equivalent to FedRAMP Moderate and High, as well as DOD Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide Impact Levels 2, 4, 5 and 6, depending on the customer.
Secure
Secure
SAIC finds ways to keep improving applications and the cloud environment, such as system performance, reliability, compute/storage cost, development, security and operational efficiencies.
Optimize
OPTIMIZE
Our modern technology stack of automation tools, analytics and processes reduce costs, accelerate delivery of capabilities and implement continuous improvements to the customer’s cloud environment.
Automate
automate
SAIC Innovation Factory and technology partners come up with and deploy novel technologies that improve cloud capabilities, business processes, decision-making and enterprise readiness.
Innovate
Innovate
Cloudscend
™
In addition, CloudScend includes proven practices of secure, innovate, automate and optimize to enhance and supercharge cloud migration outcomes and the cloud’s transformative benefits for each customer.
Regardless of where you are on your cloud journey, CloudScend quickly and reliably moves you forward with organized and coherent strategies and tactics and always gives you a clear view of what’s happening with your IT and cloud environment. You’ll get a secure, resilient and optimized environment that will:
Take you on a faster path to compliance with government cloud security controls
Enhance your agency or organization’s agility by allowing personnel to quickly develop and integrate innovative new applications and business services with more consistent and commercial-like user experiences
Bring business agility and financial benefits starting from the first day and even greater cost savings and organizational efficiency over time
Be ready for continuous performance and efficiency improvements through innovations and new and emerging technologies
•
•
•
•
CLOUDSCEND’S PROVEN APPROACHES ENSURE
A WORRY-FREE PATH TO THE CLOUD
You have cloud implementation challenges to solve, and we're here to support you. Talk to us about them and how we can accelerate solutions and outcomes.
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