Informed Decision Consulting LLC

IDC has over 20 years of experience in Information Technology and Project Management. We also have about 16 years of experience in the cloud. (the cloud is about 17 years old (first was Amazon EC2, 2006).  We recognized the cloud impact on technology and the future early on and spent the next 15 years mastering each Cloud Service Provider… but we still are not exerts.  Why? Because there are no cloud experts. The cloud changes way to fast for anyone to be an absolute expert in every facet all the time. A service you used last month may not exist next month.  It may have been improved, rendered obsolete or sold to a different company. Sincea the cloud is built to benefit from a DEVOPS environment, software companies producing for the cloud, use agile methodologies to get updates out faster and with just as much if not more control review or configuration management. 

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Informed Decision Consulting LLC

Migration to the cloud

Migration to the cloud can be daunting, especially if your knowledge of the cloud and its principles is limited or non-existent. 

Rule #1 – the cloud and the physical environment are not the same

You may intend to treat them the same and in some cases you might be able to ((lift & shift) re-hosting) to a degree but the intent to do so may greatly affect the benefits of the cloud. The cloud is faster, more flexible, more resilient, and more scaleable.

Rule #2 – the cloud is not necessarily cheaper than the physical environment

In fact, if you are required to keep your physical environment operational while you are developing and migrating to your cloud environment your overall costs are double. An aggressive, expeditious schedule can minimize and offset this but the cost is there and should be known and accepted. Your real cost savings will be seen 2-3 years after you are fully migrated and operational in the cloud.

Rule #3 – the cloud is Agile

the cloud by nature is flexible and scaleable. Fiscally it runs month to month rather than year to year. Development and Migration benefit from a DEVOPS Agile management which is faster and does not wait until milestones etc are met. (Waterfall).

Rule #4 – The Cloud is the Antithesis of Silo’s

Silo’s are old school. No one person should be so critical that the project is cripled by their absence. Further, no one section should be the holder of “ALL” the eys to the house. That’s is very outdated methodology. DEVOPS teams are fast and flexible, there is representation from all sections at all times.

Rule #5 – You will not do business the same in the Cloud

No matter what it will be different. Whether it looks different. Acts different. Manages views different. Gives reports different. There will be differences and with time you will see that its different.

Rule #6 – Redundancy’s and Back Ups should not be suggestions

Redundancy can be thought of as being up when everyone else is down. Like a having a generator that turns on when your power goes out. Difference here is rather than all your data on the east coast, we replicate it to the west as well. SO if one side of the country goes down you are still up, that can be expanded to north and south and even outside of the country. In addition, or rather, you also need automatic backups. There are numerous reasons for back ups in the cloud… the biggest being recoverability. If you are adding an update to server A and the update kills the server. You would be able to bring up the image of your server from prior to the update install and recover to that image. Having you back up in the shortest amount of time possible. If that server was clustered or replicating the users wouldn’t even know it was ever down.

Our vision is not to lie, not to withhold, not to sell you something you don’t need.  Maybe the cloud is not the place for you… we would tell you that.  Maybe your architecture is weak. We will tell you.  Maybe your redundancy plan is not fully redundant.  We will tell you that too. Maybe your baby really is ugly.  Sorry but we will tell you that as well. 

We are dedicated to satisfy clients

I always have the best experience with Informed Decision Consulting LLC. Thank you for getting back to us in a timely manner and helping us with the littlest or biggest of problems when it comes to our computers. Thank you for making sure our technical needs are always taken care of.

Rebeca Lio

Informed Decision Consulting LLC always comes through quickly resolving our IT issues - including an ongoing problem that several other consultants had been unable to fix at our largest operating company. They're certainly our go-to IT company of choice!

Ahmad Sharif

Informed Decision Consulting LLC has been exactly what we needed - a true extension of our IT department. They are all in - sleeves rolled up - to tackle each challenge and opportunity as it arises and we could not have gotten through our move or MPLS implementation without them.

Kathleen Smith

I just wanted to take a minute to let you know how helpful ... your office was in a time of near desperation. The people that I have dealt with ... have helped make my job much easier. Thank you for your support.

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326 St Paul Place, LT-2 #313, Baltimore, MD 21201

Email us:

jrodd@in4mdc.com

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410-498-4170

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